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– Alan Ago Koerv –  Vaba Eesti Sõna  - Thursday 30th May 2013    I read this article on the back page of ‘Vaba Eesti Sõna’ with great interest as I am both a linguist and a lover of poetry. I agree wholeheartedly with Alan Ago Koerv when he states...

  Jäätise/hooaeg (ice cream season) is in full swing and Estonians love their ice cream. It's particularly great to see older people enjoying jäätis on the street and in parks. It's an indulgence that's hard to resist even for people on a strict budget, as most Estonian senior citizens are....

Karina Leppik is now one of the mission commanders of the SOFIA  project of the NASA Agency. Karina used her pilot license and astronomy degree to get the job. She is the daughter of dr. Ülo Leppik and grandaughter of dr. Elmar Leppik formerly of Tartu University.   About SOFIA...

  Estonian National Ballet to Make Its North American Debut in a Piece Commissioned for the Gala San Francisco's iconic Palace of Fine Arts will be the setting for a unique and powerful evening of Estonian music and ballet the evening of Friday, June 28, 2013 at the Opening Gala...

  There are four challenges to translating Estonian poetry into English. First, trying to find the correct Estonian version of the poem. That is not as easy as one might think. Even the most famous poems are often misquoted. For example, the four famous lines from  Kristjan Jaak Peterson's 1818...

  We now have a goodly amount of English language memoirs written by Estonians and Balts, about events that took place during the Second World War and during the Cold War, from the long journey into exile in 1944 until Estonia regained its independence in 1991.  Every memoir is interesting...

  Blame urbanization: being cut off from your mullased (soil covered) roots, becoming a store snob... It just seems somehow kohatu (out of place; unusual) to gather and eat plants that abound in the wild close to home. Like dandelions (või/lill). You know there's nothing really wrong with them, yet there's...

  ERR News  - Three Esto-nian entries will be shown in the “Atlas of the Unbuilt World” exhibition, which is part of the London Festival of Architecture set to take place in June. The exhibition opens at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London on June 6. Cultural adviser to...

  Estonia’s first satellite, ESTCube-1, was rocketed off to orbit the Earth early morning on May 7, 2013, thus making Estonia the 41st nation to have a man-made object in space. Estonia has become the 41st nation in space, beating out Finland and the other Baltic countries, all of which...

  ERR News - The Estonian History Museum is reaching out to participants of the Baltic Chain in an effort to gather historical materials related to the event. The Baltic Chain, aka the Baltic Way, is the name given to a demonstration that took place on August 23, 1989 in...