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  (Nimi ei riku meest. Soeng ei riku naist.) It was no doubt in light of recent media flurry on the subject of a gender-neutral kindergarten in Stockholm that seeing this sign caught my attention and really stumped me. BBC News among others reported on the new pre-school Egalia (the...

  Estonian American Fund for Economic Education, Inc. NEWS RELEASE April 23,2012 No one will be left behind whether on the battlefield or at home. Reinforcing that principle is the mission of the recently established Carolin Illenzeer Foundation in Estonia. The Foundation takes its name from the daughter of a...

  ERR News – Estonian national grid operator Elering and the Nordic Invest-ment Bank (NIB) signed a credit contract on April 26, for 15 million euros with the goal of funding the const-ruction of a new 330 kilovolt transmission line through Tartu, Viljandi and Sindi.  The total cost of the...

  ERR News - A project to digitize the oldest parchment documents in the country is now complete. The State Archives, Tallinn City Archive and History Museum led the effort, which started in 2010. The documents contain information valuable to studying the history of settlement and agriculture in medieval and...

  Probably the most famous stanza in the Estonian national epic, Kalevipoeg, is the last one, reproduced below. This is an invitation to you to offer your own even better translation than the ones below.   Original in Estonian:  Aga ükskord algab aega kus kôik piirud kahel otsal lausa lähvad...

  Santa Cruz Dance & Cid Pearlman / Performance Projects presents: FROM ESTONIA WITH LOVE, May 2012 Five dance artists from Estonia and the USA join choreographer Cid Pearlman for an evening of intelligent and deeply embodied dancing. Santa Cruz is their first stop on a California tour (May 17-18). Tickets...

  Easter weather in Estonia this year could not have been more by the book. The big, Good book that is. Snow is not appropriate you say? Well, it was definitely hard to find someone who remembered the last snowy liha/võtte-/pühad or "meat taking holiday", referring to the end of...

  President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate diplomat Jeffrey D. Levine to be next ambassador to Estonia on February 16, 2012. Born circa 1954 and raised in California, as a teenager Jeffrey Levine was a fan of the band Jefferson Airplane and the movie Blazing Saddles. Levine earned a...

  The Estonian American National Council (EANC) has a new website!  It is at the same web address – www.estosite.org – but it has a completely new look and more information about news, activities and resources for Estonian Americans.  Plus an easy-to-navigate menu, with links to useful websites. The website...

  ERR News - While a report released by Children's Ombudsman Indrek Teder last month found that 45,000 children in Estonia were living below the absolute poverty line last year, nearly half of that total, or 22,000, had to make do on less then 69 euros ($90) per month, reported...