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“Tööle!” Liisi claps. In the early afternoon of Saturday, November 19, the New York Estonian House held its annual November Blood Sausage Workshop. Organized by Liisi Vanaselja Fletcher and Argo Paomere, the workshop attracted about twenty participants, with annual workshop regulars and a few fresh faces coming in from across...

American poet and translator Adam Cullen recently opened a tiny new bookstore-cafe in the coastal Estonian resort town of Haapsalu. What makes it especially unique is that the bookstore's selection focuses on Estonian fiction translated into foreign languages. Located in a wooden house on the corner of Posti and Vaba,...

In the September 8 issue, VES #34, Mrs Kristi Allpere wrote of her escape from Estonia to Sweden, and from there, after a residency of five years, emigrated to Canada on the MV PÄRNU. Our journey to the USA was similar, but also different. Similarly, we, my brother and I,...

New York-based designer, entrepreneur, and artist Valev Laube launched the limited NFT collection bringing his large-scale digital landscape to Rarible. New York City-based digital designer and entrepreneur Valev Laube is making a limited number of his large-scale digital landscape prints available as non-fungible tokens (NFT) on Rarible Marketplace, marking a...

August 14, 1936 – August 4, 2022 From a childhood in idyllic Tallinn, Estonia, cut short by the invading Soviet occupiers at the end of World War II, to a post-war Allied-controlled displaced persons camp in Germany, Dorothea (“Dodi”) faced an uncertain future. But in hindsight, her future was evident....

Paul Vesterstein is a genuine American success story. A native of Estonia, he came to America in 1949 with little more than hope, his innate talents and abilities, and a strong work ethic. He came from a displaced persons camp in Europe after WWII under the sponsorship of the Duluth...

Welcome to Stanford, Piret Ehin! Piret is a Professor of Comparative Politics at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies at the University of Tartu, and she will be spending the next several weeks at Stanford carrying out a research project entitled "Varieties of global populism: the rise of the...

The Joint Baltic American National Committee, Inc. (JBANC) hosts a few interns during the year. Today, we profile Sophie May, who is working with the organization remotely – and intensively – during her university studies. She has been focusing on raising awareness about Russia’s war against Ukraine, and in helping...

OTTAWA, ON (March 15, 2022): Macdonald-Laurier Institute Senior Fellow Marcus Kolga has been sanctioned by the Russian government, in a clear testament to his effectiveness in advocating for sanctions against Kremlin oligarchs and human rights abusers, identifying and fact-checking Russian disinformation, and fighting against malign foreign interference from the regime....

On Sunday morning, February 27th, as “The Bog”/ “Soo”, a film based on the novel by Estonian author Oskar Luts, premiered on the big screen in downtown Boston, thousands of Ukrainian supporters were congregating at the nearby Boston Public Gardens to protest Russia's invasion of Ukraine.After the screening of the...