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Defense Minister Jüri Luik speaking at CEPA Forum 2017. Photo courtesy of CEPA.   Two major think tank events in Washington recently featured Estonian speakers on topics including reforming NATO for the 21st century, security challenges of  the information age, defending NATO’s frontiers, and state sponsors of disinformation.   The...

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen,   The topic of this year's debate invites to focus on people and our responsibility to ensure their peaceful and sustainable future.   However, in today's world such a peaceful future is threatened as never before. Authoritarian regimes continue to kill with impunity, extremist ideologies...

From the top left of the photo: Eleri Paast & Yasmin Raiend. Second row from left to right: Eva Katrin Järviste-Bloudoff , Annelii Vann-Wall and Calvin Scherer. Photos by author.   Who would have thought that such a simple word could have so many different meanings? Home. In a metaphorical...

Tere! My name is Alex Hubschmidt and this summer, I had the incredible opportunity to participate in the “Back to Our Roots!” program in Estonia. As an Estonian-American with dual citizenship, I am constantly searching for opportunities to connect with a heritage that is so important to me and many...

The Estonian American National Council is pleased to announce that Estonian Ambassador to the United States, Lauri Lepik, will be the keynote speaker at a special EANC dinner on November 11, 2017.   The dinner is in conjunction with EANC’s annual meeting at the Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront Hotel in...

Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, 82, has been announced as one of three winners of the 2017 Ratzinger Prize awarded by the Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation.   Also to win the prize this year were German Lutheran theologian Theodor Dieter and theologian and German Catholic priest Karl-Heinz Menke, foundation president...

Under the leadership of the Information System Authority (RIA), software has been developed with which ID cards, residence permits and digi-IDs can be patched beginning in November.   Margus Arm, head of the eID field and work group at RIA, said that the application is currently being tested, and test...

On April 10, 2017, Vaino John Riismandel, Retired Administrative Law Judge passed away in Ellicott City MD. Born in Rakvere, Estonia in 1920. He married Elli Sild in Kudina Township, Tarumaa County, Estonia in 1942. Beloved son of the late Euphrosyne-Karoline (Drell) and the late Jaan Riismandel.   Father of...

The Estonian American National Council is pleased to announce that Estonian Ambassador to the United States Lauri Lepik will be the keynote speaker at a special EANC dinner on November 11, 2017. The dinner is in conjunction with EANC’s annual meeting at the Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront Hotel in downtown...

President of the Republic, Kersti Kaljulaid, will this week go on a working visit to New York where she will take part in the annual UN General assembly. Apart from numerous bilateral meetings with other heads of state and participation in various discussions, the Head of State will also give...