Photo: Erik’s fishing buddy and coach Sören Ruutsoo from Otepää.   "Vee peal" is the title of a new autobiographical novel by Olavi Ruitlane, which has been likened to a new Kevade (“Spring”, the beloved 1912 novel by Oskar Luts).   "Vee peal" is set in the small southern Estonian ...

The Estonian American National Council, Inc. (EANC) requires a full-time director for its Washington, DC, activities and programs.   Responsibilities include: •    Represent the EANC at meetings and at official functions primarily in the Washington, DC area, but also elsewhere, as required.•    Work closely with organizations to which EANC belongs ...

  Did you know that Estonian meadows have the highest plant species diversity in the world? Rain forests may have the largest amount of species on one hectare but Laelatu wooded meadow is the holder of not one but two world records for diversity!   An area of 10x10 cm ...

Jim Farber's article in the Travel section of the Sunday Daily News warns travelers not to be misguided by either the visual appearance of Tallinn, nor by the common depictions and descriptions of it. He explains that the city certainly reflects the aura of its Old Town and its — ...

Pictured are commemoration speakers, from left to right: Lithuanian Ambassador Rolandas Kriščiūnas; VOC Executive Director Marion Smith; Latvian Deputy Chief of Mission Ilmars Breidaks; and Estonian Deputy Chief of Mission Marki Tihhonova-Kreek.   Photo: Marju Rink-Abel   Up: On August 23, The Joint Baltic American National Committee (JBANC) and the Victims ...

According to Foreign Minister Marina Kaljurand, Estonia strongly condemns the judgement rendered by the Pskov regional court on August 19th, on Eston Kohver as well as the entire trial.   “The abduction of Eston Kohver from the territory of the Republic of Estonia by the FSB on 5 September, and ...

Foreign Minister Marina Kaljurand met with US Senators John McCain, Sheldon Whitehouse and John Barrasso during their visit to Estonia. Discussion focused on cyber security and fighting cyber attacks. Photo: Facebook/Estonian Embassy in Washington

All all-laagri (sub-camp) groups say thanks for their meal in different ways at the Kotkajärve köök (kitchen), including traditional songs and unique hüüud (cheers). The hundud (cubs) definitely have the noisiest expressions of thanks: they have sent vee/raketid (pressurized water bottle rockets) shooting off into the sky and have also ...

Pictured from left: Aimi Brown, Inga Barrett and Ulla Kemman.   On Aug. 9, 1945, 16 Estonian refugees set sail from Sweden in a 37-foot sloop to cross the Atlantic to America. Four and a half months later they arrived in Norfolk, Va. The Küün daughters, consisting of Inga Barrett ...

Paula Mejia writes in the August 12th Newsweek that one of Tolkien's first fantasy short stories from an unfinished manuscript entitled "The Story of Kullervo," — which he penned as a youngbuck undergraduate student at Oxford University in the 1910s — will be posthumously published in late August. What's more, ...