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ERR News - Countless flags - and drinking glasses - were raised across Estonia on August 20, in honor of Re-Independence Day, the natio-nal holiday marking the day in 1991 when the country officially broke away from Moscow after nearly a half century of Soviet rule.On August 20 of that...

Estonian diplomat Marten Kokk has been named the new head of the budget committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The committee is only one of three permanent committees of a total of 250 in the organization. Kokk will be the first Estonian to claim such a high...

By Steve Roman Photo: Peeter Langovits/Postimees British journalist and political commentator Abdul Turay (on the photo) has accepted an offer by the Social Democratic Party to stand as one of its candidates for the Tallinn City Council in October, a move that makes him the first black man, and one...

(L-R) Haley Segura, Alexa Thompson, Mari Käärid and Hanna Laanemaa Berrytree.  Seedrioru Suvekodu 2013.   As I was christened on the porch steps of my grandparents cottage at Seedrioru on July 11, 1970, I instinctively knew I was home.  My older sister called this place Eestimaa, the smell of warm...

GE (NYSE: GE) has announced the opening of the 45 MW Paldiski Wind Farm on the Pakri peninsula in north western Estonia in a ceremony attended by facility owners Eesti Energia and Nelja Energia. With 18 GE 2.5-100 wind turbines, the Paldiski Wind Farm marks the commercial debut of the...

ERR News - The Estonian Internal Security Service (KaPo) has detained one of its own former officials, Vladimir Veitman, whom the agency suspects of having gathered classified information for years on behalf of a Russian intelligence service.Detained on Wednesday, August 7, the former KGB official joined the Estonian intelligence service...

Kristiina Ehin and her husband musician Silver Sepp will be travelling to the US and Canada for four weeks in September and October to present their work. Public appearances have so far been planned at: - Toronto Tartu College, seminar and reading/concert, September 20- Grolier Poetry Bookshop, Cambridge, Mass., Friday,...

by Ben Rooney The tiny state of Estonia, one of Europe's smallest, might be the role model for what a technology-enabled country looks like in the 21st century.Estonia, population just 1.29 million, is well known as punching considerably above its weight as a startup champion - it was the birthplace...

I have been playing golf in Estonia every year now for about the last 20 years and witnessed its development. I spend my summers in Estonia and winters in Florida. There are now six high quality courses for you to enjoy and more are being built. These courses offer a...

ERR News - “In and Out of Estonia's Doors,” a new book by the University of Tartu's ethics center, describes the emergence of a new generation of people living abroad who have Estonian roots but no longer have ties to Estonian culture or language.One of the project's initiators, the ethics...