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Ria: Id Card Can Now Be Used With Latest Mozilla Firefox UpdateThe national Information System Authority (RIA) announced on Thursday, Dec 5th, that it had released a new version of the ID card software for the Windows operating system, which solved concerns yesterday that the new version of Mozilla Firefox...

Rector Toomas Asser and David Ilmar Lepasaar Beecher.  Photo: Andres Tennus At the ceremony dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Estonia’s national university, the University of Tartu’s first scholarship for visiting professors from the Estonian Diaspora was presented to David Ilmar Lepasaar Beecher, a lecturer of history and global studies...

Maryland National Guard (MDNG) Adjutant General Major General Timothy Gowen and Estonian Defence Attaché to the U.S., Captain (Navy) Sten Sepper at the Estonian Embassy in DC celebrating the 101st anniversary of the Estonian Defence Forces (EDF) and the strong partnership between the MDNG and the EDF.   Photo courtesy...

  Press releaseNGO LõimeleerNovember 26, 2019   The Lõimeleer series of summer camps is designed to give Estonian youngsters living abroad the chance to get to know kids their own age from Estonia, learn handicrafts and traditional music, songs, dances and games, ride a horsecart, go boating and much more....

Helga Merits is an acclaimed historical documentary filmmaker. Her documentaries, including "The Refugee Children of Geislingen", and "The Story of the Baltic University", are important contributions to the body of research about the Estonian emigre experience. She grew up in the Netherlands as the daughter of an Estonian emigre father...

November 19, 2019Foreign Minister Reinsalu has said in a radio program aired by the Estonian public broadcasting organization ERR that the country of Estonia will not retreat from the underpinnings of the Peace Treaty of Tartu if she is to finally ratify a new border treaty with the Russian Federation....

The European Commission has upped its growth forecast for the Estonian economy in 2019, from 2.9 percent in July, to 3.2 percent in its latest prognosis. At the same time, BNS reports, the commission lowered its 2020 forecast by two percentage points, to 2.1 percent growth. The commission's growth forecast...

On October 30, 2019, the Prime Minister of Estonia Jüri Ratas gave a speech at the American Enterprise Institute. In his remarks, he highlighted that one can be pro-Europe and pro-NATO at the same time.   Transatlantic relationship can only benefit from strong cooperation between European Union and the United...

On October 23-30, 24 young people from three border towns – Valga (Estonia), Daugavapils (Latvia) and Šalčininkai (Lithuania) – were on a road trip to visit each other’s cities and discuss the opportunities and challenges of living in border zones. As these three cities are characterized by their multicultural and...

“Jacob, Mimmi & the Talking Dogs” Latvia-Poland, 2018, 70 min  Can an imaginative boy, his know-it-all cousin and a pack of talking dogs save their happy neighborhood from a greedy developer? North American PremiereScreening date & time: Sunday, November 10, 3:00 pm “The Little Comrade” (“Seltsimees laps”), Estonia, 2018, 100...