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  Members of the European Parliament together with the Unitas Foundation and NGO TuliPisar invite you and other Baltic communities across the world to hold commemoration events on March 25th, the launch day of the 1949 March deportations. Soviet mass deportations from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are among the most...

  On Sunday February 26th many of the Arizona Estonian families and friends gathered together to celebrate the 94th Anniversary of Estonian Independence as they have done over the past many years.   For the third year in a row the event was hosted at the home of Jim and...

  The Estonian Cultural Heritage Fund, Inc., established to support the preservation of Estonian culture in the US, is now accepting scholarship applications for the 2012/2013 academic year.  Applicants must be US citizens who are or have been active in Estonian-American organizations and have personally advanced their knowledge of and...

  ERR News - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has once again blasted Estonian and Latvian citizenship and language policies, this time mentioning them in a lengthy article that mostly hit out against the US and NATO. Putin's piece, "Russia and the Changing World," which appeared in Moskovskie Novosti on...

  Angry birds get that way when you forget to feed them in desperate times. At least Estonian tihased (chickadees), those spirited, curious characters who make no bones about tapping on your window pane. They don't look angry when they tap, just uudishimulikud (inquisitive). But the ones on the packages...

  Washington, DC --- The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation announced on February 17,  that it will be presenting its first 2012 Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom to the first head of state of Belarus Stanislau Shushkevich. Dr. Shushkevich is renowned for his role in helping to dissolve the USSR, and...

  In the midst of a severe winter storm when heavy snow, high winds, and ice storms caused havoc and a quarter of million households went without power, there appeared a bright star at the Beneroya Seattle Symphony Hall, Saturday night.  The Seattle audience who dared travel to downtown Seattle...

  The intensive Estonian Summer Institute will again be held at the University of Pittsburgh from June 4 through July 13, 2012.  Beginning and Intermediate Estonian will be offered.  This course is open to students of any age, including juniors and seniors in high school, undergraduate and graduate students, as...

  Amid all the chaos, including loss of life that the extreme freeze in Europe has brought, there is nevertheless a very bright and slick, shiny side to the unseasonably cold weather. Decent jää – ice. Ukraine, which has seen the largest number of casualties, over 100 since the beginning...

  A banner seen in front of a Neste gas station in Tallinn this week features a reindeer and the smaller print reads: Soome talvediisel, Finnish winter diesel. Parim kuni -32° C juures. The best up to -32° C. And on the bottom left: Sõidame soodsalt, Let's drive profitably, i.e....