Communities

By Anneliis BeadnellWhen artist Jaanika Peerna was asked to create an exhibition for New York Estonian House’s annual Kultuuripäevad (Cultural Days) 2010 she was positive that the Estonian language was to be the muse of the exhibition. The question was how to get more artists, Estonians and non-Estonians, to interact...

After Estonia regained her independence, a group of former political prisoners sought support to convert the place where they were introduced into the Soviet penal system into a museum. As high school students they had been active in a patriotic underground organization, Blue-Black-White. KGB viewed that as a serious threat...

The speech on the Estonian 92nd Anniversary Celebration  in New York Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our “aktus” on the occasion of the 92nd anniversary of the birth of the Republic of Estonia - a small windswept country situated on cliffs and with rocky soil in a geopolitically rather inhospitable...

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...

Back in early 1990, before Estonia regained its independence from the Soviet Union, my wife Helju and I were at an Estonian gathering in Syracuse, New York. Our friends Maie and Oleg Golubjatnikov mentioned that the Estonian American Fund (EAF) was looking for medical contributions to send to Estonia.  At...

15 December (BNS) - In its Tuesday issue, The New York Times contained an overview of the euro aspirations of Estonia and the other Baltic countries and of the problems connected with it.The paper finds that Estonia has fared better in the financial crisis than its two fellow former Soviet...

Twenty years ago The New York Times agreed with the administration’s foreign policy that favored democratization of the Soviet Union but not its disintegration. On November 6. 1989,  the paper published a dissenting letter, and supplied its own headline. Ago Ambre November 6, 1989 To the Editor:  Your observation that...