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You may have heard or experienced that Estonian is not the easiest language to master.   It sounds and is composed unlike most other languages, which means that English, German, Spanish, French, or Russian are more similar to each other than any of them are to Estonian.   Spoken by...

Parliament's Constitutional Committee is discussing whether to classify for 30 years all recordings and transcripts of parliamentary committee meetings, according to Eesti Ekspress.   Meetings have been recorded for years, but journalists and prosecutors have been denied access to the records, the paper reported on January 23, adding that the...

AP Photo: President Clinton with, to his left, Latvian President Guntis Ulmanis and, to his right, Estonian President Lennart Meri and Lithuanian President Algirdas Brazauskas at the White House. Photo and text by US Embassy in Tallinn, Estonia   January 16 marked the sixteenth year since the signing of the...

We are happy to announce that pilot issues of our 'sister' publications ELLA (Eesti lühilugude ajakiri) and JESS (Journal of Estonian Short Stories) will be released in February 2014. The pilot issues of both publications will be distributed freely at launch events in both Tallinn and Tartu! After a somewhat...

Graphic warnings on packages of sigaretid aka suitsud ("smokes") are nothing new, but most likely the texts in Estonian are... The sticker on the top is proof that these are not sala/sigaretid or "secret cigarettes", i.e. have not been illegally smuggled, (a major problem at the Russian border) and are...

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ERR News editors took time to pick the year's most important narratives.   Municipal elections, 2013 edition   The October 20 municipal elections, which dominated Estonia's headlines from late summer to midautumn, didn't produce much in the way of shakeups. There were, however, further signs that support for the Reform...

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