Communities

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...