It's not easy being a jõulupuuehe, for two reasons: you can't wait to be picked off your perch at the store, plus you carry the added burden of being a compound word in Estonian. This makes life very difficult, since people tend to want to break you up according to ...

Juba traditsiooniks on muutumas New Yorgi Eesti Meeskoori külakost Lakewoodi eestlaskonna juurde. Koor annab konserdi kirikus, olles osa eesti jumalateenistusest. Ja millise rõõmu valmistas aina kasvav Eesti Meeskoor, mille koosseisus laulis 13. detsembril 2009 Lakwoodi Eesti kirikus 16 lauljat. Advendiaja kolmas jumalateenistus algas organist Maria Star Zumpano prelüüdiga "The First ...

Ajaleht Postimees kuulutas tänavuseks aasta inimeseks Soome praegusaja ühe tunnustatuma kirjaniku, eesti juurtega Sofi Oksaneni, kes on silma paistnud kui Eesti mitteametlik kultuuriesindaja ja meie eestkõneleja Soomes.«Aasta inimese tiitli saab Sofi Oksanen oma panuse eest Eesti ajaloo ja eestluse selgitamisel,» ütles Postimehe peatoimetaja Merit Kopli tänavuse valiku kohta. Kopli sõnul ...

“Anna Haava luule”Koostanud S. Endre ja L. OlmaruSE&JS kirjastus, Tallinn,  2008;  575lk.“Anna Haava”Ello SääritsKirjastus “Ilmamaa”, Tartu;  2007;  127 lk.Kui Eesti Rahvusraamatukogu sel kevadel mulle saatis koguteose “Anna Haava luule”, siis valmistas see palju rõõmu.  On siin ju tegemist luulekoguga, mis sisaldab peagu kogu Anna Haava trükitud luuleloomingu.  Raamatut  –  743 ...

Rick Steves' Europe It's amazing what a stretch of water can do. The country of Estonia sits across the Baltic Sea from Sweden and Finland. Yet the struggles of the last couple of generations couldn't be more different on opposite sides of the sea. Traveling to this former Soviet republic ...

It’s amazing what a stretch of water can do. The country of Estonia sits across the Baltic Sea from Sweden and Finland. Yet the struggles of the past couple of generations couldn’t be more different on opposite sides of the sea. Traveling to this former Soviet republic spices up any visit ...

Edward Lucas A crisis is an expensive lesson, and wasting anything expensive is bad. So Estonians should use these hard times to take a hard look at themselves, their society and their state, and work out how to dump bad habits and adopt good ones. Learning from your own mistakes ...

  “Estonia and the people of Estonia have endured a lot. However, even today we don’t have a real overview of what exactly happened in Estonia during the Soviet period,” said President Toomas Hendrik Ilves on Decemeber 8, in Kadriorg, at the first session of the Learned Committee of the ...

BNS - Estonian students are third in Europe after Finland and Ireland for their reading skills and their knowledge of mathematics and science subjects, it appears from a recent European Commission report. According to the Education Ministry the number of students with a poor achievement level in science subjects is ...

  BNS - Inspired by the "Let's Do It Estonia 2008" campaign, NGOs in Romania are preparing for a campaign in which volunteers will collect illegally dumped or littered garbage across the country in May 2010. The Romanian NGO's behind the initiative have named it "Let's Do It Romania." The ...