Before the Estonian Society of Central Florida (Kesk-Florida Eesti Selts (KFES)) breaks for summer hiatus, members and friends gather for their traditional early Jaanipäev picnic and celebration of April birthdays. This year over 25 members enjoyed a wonderful afternoon together on Saturday, April 22, 2017.

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Published: May 07 2017

"Do not park in front of the tõkke/puu." The bar (puu) is a barrier which stops you (tõkestab sind) from passing through. In this case, it controls entry into the parkla or parkimis/plats of the Vanemuise teater in Tartu.

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Published: May 07 2017

Photo from Locked Shields 2016. The gallery is available on the website of the Centre: https://ccdcoe.org/

Locked Shields 2017, the largest and most advanced international live-fire cyber defence exercise in the world, took place on April 24-28 in Tallinn, Estonia. Approximately 800 participants from 25 nations were involved in the cyber exercise.

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Published: April 30 2017

An independent US film company Oscilloscope Laboratories, has acquired North American rights to the Estonian film, “November”, which will be released in cinemas later this year.

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Published: April 30 2017

Maris Palo is pictured at her university laboratory in Tartu, Estonia.

In her native Estonia, budding atmospheric scientist Maris Palo is a doctoral student at the University of Tartu. When she is not cracking books or watching over instruments in the field, she works at the university’s Laboratory of Environmental Physics.

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Published: April 30 2017

Estonian fraternity korp! Sakala has decided to purchase the former Estonian National Museum (ERM) exhibition building, the predecessor of the current main building, located at Kuperjanovi 9 in Tartu.

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Published: April 21 2017

Belarus demonstration. Photo by Karin Shuey

Two of EANC’s sister organizations from the Central and East European Coalition (CEEC) recently held events in Washington to call attention to Russia’s actions in the region. The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA) sponsored its annual “Ukraine Days” advocacy effort on March 8th. On April 2nd, the Belarusian communities in Washington, DC – including representatives from the Belarusan-American Association – organized a demonstration near the White House to call for U.S. and European Union action in their nation. EANC and the Joint Baltic American National Committee (JBANC) supported both events.

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Published: April 21 2017

A new marketing campaign by a business park in Northern Estonia makes a pitch to Tesla on why it should become home to the next Gigafactory in Europe.

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Published: April 21 2017