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gov.ee, 14 January 2010 – At today’s session, the Government of Estonia  approved the goals in the European Union during the Spanish Presidency in the first half of 2010. In total, the government formulated 5 subjects that are important for Estonia.The main goal of Estonia in 2010 is joining the...

4 January (BNS) - Estonia's Eesti Energia power utility has exported electricity to both Finland and Lithuania in the first days of the new year.Eesti Energia CFO Margus Kaasik told BNS that a contract had been signed with Lithuania for a concrete amount. In addition to Lithuania, Eesti Energia is...

The product of a long collaboration between an American composer and Lithuanian librettist and director, Julius tells the story of one man's struggle to hold onto his dream of returning home as he and his family are pulled in conflicting directions by war, occupation, and the search for freedom. Based...

Ajalehe Middletown Journal andmetel lahkub Paavo Järvi järgmise aasta kevadel Cincinnati sümfooniaorkestri muusikalise juhi kohalt, kus tal saab täis kümme hooaega. Järvi teatas muusikutele 7. jaanuaril, et tema viimane kontsert nendega toimub 2011. aasta mais.“Cincinnati suurepärase  orkestri juhtimine on olnud minu karjääri kõige rahuldustpakkuvam  kogemus. See on ühtlasi olnud minu...

Alates 1958. a. on igal aastal USA keskvöö põhja-osas peetud kokkutulekuid,  et eestlaste ühiskonda säilitada. Seda alustasid endised Geislingeni Eesti DP laagri noored, kutsudes seda Kesk-lääne Eesti Noorte Koondiseks või lühidalt KLENK. Aja möödudes võis muiates tõlgitseda seda nime kui Kesklääne Endiste Noorte Koondis. Kuid aastatega laienes osavõtjate ringkond. Kõik...

Do you remember? Do you know? Where were you, your parents, or grandparents during “Christmastime” and where did you/they ring in the New Year 65 years ago? In how many places across the world have “Silent Night” in Estonian and the Estonian National Anthem sounded devotedly over these 65 years?65...

hotINK 2010 International Festival of Play Reading presents a staged reading of PURGE, by Finnish-Estonian author Sofi Oksanen (translated by Ewa Buchwald) on Sunday, January 24, 7:00 PM at Tisch School of the Arts in New York City.Purge opens a window on a remote area of newly independent Estonia in...

Need kunstnikud, kes kutsutakse esinema Festspielhausi lavale, on jõudnud kunstiolümpose tippu. Saksamaa üks kuulsamaid ooperi- ja kontserdihooneid avati 1998. aastal, see ehitati Viini arhitekti, professor Wilhelm Holzbaueri plaanide kohaselt Baden-Badeni vana jaamahoone ühendusse ja siia mahub 2500 külastajat. Juba kümnendat aastat juhib täielikult erakapitalil tegutsevat kontserdimaja Andreas Mölich-Zebhauser, kes on...

Pühapäeval, 24. jaanuaril kell 7 pl toimub rahvusvahelise näidendite lugemise festivali hotINK 2010 raames New Yorgis Tisch School of the Arts ruumides (721 Broadway), Soome-Eesti autori Sofi Oksaneni näidendi “Puhastus” lavastatud ettekanne (staged reading). Piletid hotink.org.Näidendi (ja samanimelise raamatu) sündmustik areneb aastal 1992, äsja iseseisvuse taastanud Eestis. Vana naise meenutuste...

I submit a set of reflections that came about because of two events. One was an economic roundtable arranged by the Office of the European Parliament in Riga that I had the privilege of speaking at in November. I had been asked to elaborate on the idea that the reemergence...