American poet and translator Adam Cullen recently opened a tiny new bookstore-cafe in the coastal Estonian resort town of Haapsalu. What makes it especially unique is that the bookstore's selection focuses on Estonian fiction translated into foreign languages. Located in a wooden house on the corner of Posti and Vaba, ...

Fermi Energia, which is developing a nuclear power station in Estonia, will begin a preliminary geological study at one of the possible sites for a compact reactor in the village of Letipea, in the municipality of Viru-Nigula. In November, Steiger Engineering will drill three 90 mm diameter holes at depths ...

I was in Nassau, Bahamas, in 1954 on the charter schooner "Caribee", when Queen Elizabeth, on the Royal Yacht Brittania, was visiting the British Empire, which was vast. We were told in social studies that "The sun never sets on the British Empire", as Britain had holdings in every arc ...

The Connecticut Estonian Society (CES) will hold its traditional Diaspora Estonia Day (väliseesti päeva) pot-luck-style dinner on Satur-day, November 19th, at the Romanian Church (formerly Latvian Church) at 2 Winter Street, Manchester, CT 06040. As in the past, CES will provide roast pork for the potluck meal and asks guests ...

When last checked in July on these pages (“The Summer of NDAA”), the United States House of Representatives was primed to vote on the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). That vote occurred on July 14, passing on a bipartisan 329-101 vote, and authorizing nearly $840 billion in ...

The Latvian National Opera Guild presents an evening at the Scandinavia House in Manhattan on October 29, 2022, where the Guild will be screening a video of the Latvian opera, “Hamlet”. Photo: Kristaps Kalns / www. opera.lv The event will be followed by a reception that includes a glass of ...

The Fifth Annual New York Baltic Film Festival (NYBFF) presented by Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America will be screening the best new and critically-acclaimed Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian films. This year, the festival will feature 4 Estonian feature films – 3 narrative and 1 documentary — North-American premiers!We ...

Estonia in 1940 and Ukrai-ne in 2014 and 2022 – the similarities are remarkably striking. In June 1940, the Soviet Union invaded and occupied the independent countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as foreseen by the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between Communist Russia and Nazi Germany. Blatantly rigged “parliamentary elections” were ...

In the September 8 issue, VES #34, Mrs Kristi Allpere wrote of her escape from Estonia to Sweden, and from there, after a residency of five years, emigrated to Canada on the MV PÄRNU. Our journey to the USA was similar, but also different. Similarly, we, my brother and I, ...

From: We can’t wait to see you – It’s been too long!To: It was so great to see you – It was so much fun! Kati and I are home at Karu mets, reflecting on the amazing journey it was to LEP2022. We travelled many miles to find the perfect ...