Representative Rohrabacher (back row, second from right) meets with Ukrainian- and  Russian-Americans, along with EANC and JBANC reps. Photo courtesy of JBANC.

EANC’s sister organization from the Central and East European Coalition (CEEC) representing Ukrainian Americans held an advocacy event on June 14 in Washington to call attention to legislation relevant to ending the conflict in Ukraine.

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Published: June 30 2017

July 2, 2017, will mark the 30th anniversary of the death of Karl Linnas at the hands of the Soviet Union. Pursuant to the Hitler-Stalin Pact (1939), the Soviet Union killed thousands, made arrests, confiscated property, carried out mass deportations, and militarily occupied and annexed Estonia (1940).

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Published: June 30 2017

Group photo. Märten Vaikmaa’s Jaanipäev with the Estonian Society of Central Florida on June 18, 2017 in Terra Ceia, Florida. Photo: Anné Phillips.

Märten Vaikmaa, his wife Sunne, and children Iti (12) and Uku (10), our newest parttime neighbors from Estonia, invited members of the Estonian Society of Central Florida (Kesk Florida Eesti Selts) to join their friends and neighbors in a fabulous Jaanipäeva celebration in their beautiful waterfront home in Terra Ceia, Florida, on Sunday afternoon, June 18, 2017.

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Published: June 30 2017

Members of the Boston Baltic Centennial Planning Committee attended the United Nations Association Global Citizens Gala at the Fairmont Copley Plaza in Boston on June 10th. Representing the Baltic nations at one table were Jim Barrett and Karin (Värnik) Barrett (Co-Chair of the Boston Baltic Centennial Celebration Committee, Estonia), Eric Suuberg (Vice President of the EANC, Estonia) and Inara Suuberg  (President of the Latvian Heritage Foundation), Dr. Elliot Thrasher and Antra Thrasher (Trustee of the Latvian Heritage Foundation), Anne-Reet Ilves Annunziata (Honorary Consul for Estonia), Villu Tari (Past President of the Boston Estonian Society) and (not pictured) Lithuanian Honorary Consul Thorsteinn and Ransy Gislason.

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Published: June 30 2017

Photo by Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VoC) held its tenth annual Roll Call of Nations on June 9th. The event each year commemorates the more than 100 million victims of communism worldwide and those still living under totalitarian regimes.

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Published: June 30 2017

ESTONIAN MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR

June 9, 2017

The immigration quota, which regulates temporary residence permits for enterprise and employmentbased immigration from third countries to Estonia, will already be reached in the summer this year.

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Published: June 30 2017

Top row – Toni Mannik, Martha Mannik, Helisa Uzoza with the EMT personnel. Bottom row – Luisa Uzoza, Annika Simonson, Aiki Simonson, Annika Perry, Aili Simonson, Lisa Bucholz. Photo taken by Liisa-Mai Karuks

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Published: June 30 2017

Ambassador Fried giving well-received keynote address at 2017 JBANC Conference.

JBANC Baltic Conference, Washington DC, May 20, 2017

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Published: June 14 2017