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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,...

Press StatementJohn KirbyDepartment SpokespersonWashington, DCAugust 19, 2015   We are deeply concerned by the conviction and 15-year sentence of Estonian Internal Security Service employee Eston Kohver by a Russian regional court. Kohver was seized in Estonia near the Russian border on September 5th of last year. His abduction, detention, and...

Adam’s Passion by Robert Wilson and Arvo Pärt. Photo by Accentus Music   A new documentary, produced by Accentus Music and directed by German film director Günter Atteln, follows composer Arvo Pärt over a one-year period in his native Estonia, as well as in Japan, Germany, Italy and the Vatican. “He...

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There were several choirs from Estonia participating in LEP 2015 that took place in Vancouver, Whistler on August 4–9, 2015, and they all became absolute favourites of the audience. The choirs sang at several events, and actually took every opportunity to let their beautiful voices be heard. Here on the...

The US Army Chief of Staff, General Raymond Odierno, expressed concern on Wednesday, August 12, that Russia could next intervene in NATO allies like Latvia or Estonia, CNN reported. Odierno said that he is concerned that Russia underestimates the extent to which NATO partners would defend Estonia and Latvia, both...

The United States has announced a 500,000-dollar grant for conducting investigative journalism training to counter Russian misinformation in the Baltic states. The US government published the details of the grant via its embassy in Vilnius and said that the program’s aim is to offer a year-long, innovative, multi-phased investigative journalism...