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Midsummer eve or suvi/hari – "the peak of summer", also known as jaani/laupäev (St. John's Day Saturday, i.e. the eve before) has always been the perfect time to gather on the küla/kiik (village swing) in Eesti. The swing at the Eesti Vaba/õhu/muuseum (Open Air Museum, www.evm.ee) has this kasutus/juhend or...

NEWS RELEASE June 21, 2013 Officials from the City of Cumberland met with officials from Viljandi, Estonia plus the Estonian Embassy in Washington, DC and the US Embassy in Tallinn, Estonia via Skype exchange on Wednesday, June 19, 2013 to finalize a Memorandum of Cooperation between the two cities that...

  Spring is the busiest season of the year for Floridians and the Estonian Society of Central Florida (Kesk Florida Eesti Selts).  Activities span officially from Vabariigi Aastapäev to May and unofficially to Võidupüha and Jaanipäev. More than 60 members and guests of the Estonian Society of Central Florida (KFES)...

  An Estonian Girls choir will sing and perform in Missoula, MT, on July 16 – 21st, 2013, at our celebrated “International Choral Fes-tival – 2013 “. Since 1987, Missoula hosts choirs every 3 years from around the world who perform at free concert venues around town.  They are hosted...

The Sarasota Orchestra named Estonian conductor Anu Tali as its new music director. The 40-year-old Estonian is being signed to a three-year contract that will officially begin on 1 August. Tali, who led the orchestra in two concerts -- once this past season and the first two years ago, both...

  At the 55th international art biennale in Venice, Estonia is represented by the artist Dénes Farkas with the project “Evident in Advance”, curated by Adam Budak. Dénes Farkas is a Tallinn-based post-conceptual photo artist, who has been focusing on social structures since the second half of the 2000s and presenting...

  One out of eight wage earners in Estonia or approximately 65,000 peop-le are ready to look for work abroad, it appears from TNS Emor's annual survey of wage earners' expectations. The study reflected in-creased readiness to change jobs. Every third employee is considering changing jobs within a year and...

  PM - Estonian residents’ real individual purchasing-power parity based consumption is the lowest among Baltic countries, as evidenced by Eurostat data published on June 19. According to Eurostat figures for 2012, Estonia showed 59 per cent of European average, Latvia and Lithuania preceding it with 61 and 74 per...

  Every academic year an EANC scholarship is awarded to a Tallinn University graduate student whose research is related in some way to Estonia.  This year’s recipient is Liis Jõhvik, who began her master’s degree studies in history at Tallinn University last fall.  The prior spring, she successfully defended her...

  The victims of communism were commemorated at the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington on June 12, 2013. The chairmen of the foreign affairs committees of the parliaments of Nordic and Baltic countries, members of U.S. House of Representatives, as well as representatives of nearly 20 embassies were among...