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On Tuesday, April 25 at Stanford Libraries, Avik Roy, President of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, and Karen Jagodin, Director of Vabamu, will discuss "How the Estonian Model Can Expand Economic Opportunity in America." At its best, the United States is a dynamic society in which people can...

Estonia and its fellow Baltic countries joined NATO on 29 March 2004, but the story of its path into the alliance goes much further back, as Adam Rang explains in his Estonian World article. A rarely seen document shows Estonia was already working towards membership in 1949, despite the country’s...

Supplementing the spies working out of the Russian embassy has been the clandestine role of personnel at the International Investment Bank (IIB) in Budapest. Established by the Soviets in 1970 as a bank for the Soviet Comecon, it moved its headquarters to Budapest during Orban’s administration and has been acknowledged...

Many good things happen for the body as well as the mind when we are physically active. Most people see weight loss as the main reason for exercising, but that is only one of the many benefits. Physical activity fires up our metabolism. It allows all processes in the body...

Ambassador Kristjan Prikk joined other Baltic ambassadors at a lively panel discussion at the WorldBoston special event, "The State of the State Department & Baltic Security, " held at the Boston Public Library on Monday evening, April 3. The event was open to the public and nearly 300 people filled...

Dear Friends! Be a part of the community and help us collect our New York Estonian community memoirs. We are looking for volunteers to collect and preserve meaningful memoirs of active Estonians around the New York area related to the Estonian House. Excellent communication and listening skills are preferred. This...

Sponsored by the Los Angeles Estonian Society Topic: The Importance of Community Tell us your thoughts about community. Put your thoughts in an Estonian context. Estonians are familiar with many communities, ranging from family to social and political groups. Some communities have fixed boundaries. There are other communities that have...

Journalists sometimes muse over the choice for “spy capital of Europe”. Any place that is easy for Russian spies to blend with the rest will attract representatives of other agencies. Over the years, Geneva has been singled out for Switzerland’s lax banking regulations and rigorous neutrality. New York is another,...

This year’s Polar Music Prize, Sweden’s most prestigious music prize, has been awarded to Beninese singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo, founder of Island Records Chris Blackwell and composer Arvo Pärt. The prizes will be awarded in Stockholm on May 23 and will be attended by the Swedish Royal Family. “The Polar Prize...

March 22 marked exactly 100 days until the XIII Youth Song and Dance Festival "Holy is the Land" begins in Tallinn, and all over the country, preparations for the three-day festival are in full swing. More than half of the tickets to all three performances of the Dance Festival have...