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EANC joined a coalition of 23 groups concerned with human rights in signing an open letter to Secretary of State Tillerson and Secretary of the Treasury Mnuchin stressing the importance of implementation and enforcement of the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act. Global Magnitsky was signed into law in December...

Group picture of Pillerkaar at Scanfest 9-3-17: (l-r) Toomas Parratt, Deborah Klepp, Kadri Kallas Zelek, Arney Smit, Jeff Zelek, Age Landra-Robinson, Jyri Erik Kork. The morning of Sunday, September 3, tropical depression Harvey was dampening everything except spirits at the 33rd annual Scandinavian Festival in Budd Lake, New Jersey. The...

Photo Riina Kindlam    ‘Tis the season to go out in the forest foraging for seened (mushrooms), see people returning from such jaunts carrying ämbri/täied  (bucketfuls) of seened  or to go out and buy butter-fried kuke/seene (chanterelle mushroom) flavored potato chips. Prepared värsketest kartulitest  (from fresh potatoes). Potato chips (kartuli/krõpsud...

EANC members at LEP 2017 with Prime Minister of Estonia Jüri Ratas (Ülle Ederma, Matti Prima, Mai-Liis Bartling, Eric Suuberg, Gilda Karu, PM Rattas, Arne Kalm). Not in picture: Mati Otsmaa.   During Labor Day Weekend, the 33rd Lääneranniku Eesti Päevad (LEP), The West Coast Estonian Days, hosted by the...

Graphic of Russian and Belarussian participation as reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense.    With Russia’s quadrennial military exercise Zapad getting underway, there’s no shortageof analysis and commentary on what to expect. Scheduled to start on September 14th and run for seven days, Zapad 2017 has been a hot...

August 26, 2017 – Kotkajärve, Muskoka, Canada On the 50th anniversary of Kotkajärve Metsaülikool (MÜ), and as the Republic of  Estonia approaches its centennial in 2018, the participants of MÜ2017 send their greetings and congratulations to Estonians around the world.   • A key theme of the Metsaülikool program this...

This year marked the 68th Estonian summer camp in the UK. These summer camps have taken place every summer since 1949.   Although the camps have changed quite considerably over the years, the original vision has not altered and the main objectives remain the same: maintaining Estonian language and culture...

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met with President Kersti Kaljulaid in Tallinn on Thursday. Sept. 7, 2017. ERR News   President Kersti Kaljulaid and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met in Tallinn on September 7, where they discussed NATO's adaptation to the security situation, the alliance's command structure and the...

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOCMF) and the Joint Baltic American National Committee (JBANC) held their annual observance of Black Ribbon Day on August 23rd at the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, DC. The ceremony recognized the 78th anniversary of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Ambassadors from...

It's 27. august and Juta of Paavli-Mihkli farm, (where the owners were Paavel, then Mihkel, then Paavel, then Mihkel), gets a step-ladder, climbs confidently to the top, and tugs at (sikutab) the valged klaarid or white transparent apples. They don't really want to leave the ema/puu (mother tree) yet, but...