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  We invite all who share a love of Estonia and Estonian culture to KLENK 2011, which will be held Friday-Saturday, January 6-7, 2012, in St. Petersburg, Florida. We plan to start late Friday afternoon and continue all day Saturday and Saturday evening. The annual KLENK business meeting will be...

  Riga, Latvia, Sep. 22.  - The U.S.-Baltic Foundation (USBF) today donated $10 000 to the newly created Baltic Center for Investi-gative Journalism (BCIJ) in Riga.  USBF Board member Ints Silins, former U.S. Ambassador to Latvia, made the presentation to BCIJ Director Inga Springe. This grant represents the Center’s initial...

  The Kistler-Ritso Foundation, a founder of Tallinn's Museum of Occupations, is donating millions of dollars to the Stanford University Foundation to support education on Estonian history in the United States. Kistler-Risto founded Tallinn's Museum of Occupations in 2003, at the request of the Estonian government. "ts purpose is to...

  Washington, DC – The Central and East European Coalition (CEEC) announ-ced that it will hold its Fall Advocacy Day on Wednes-day, October 5, 2011.   The Estonian American National Council (EANC) and Joint Baltic American National Committee (JBANC) are both members of the CEEC and urge Estonian Americans throughout...

On Friday, 9 September, Marina Kaljurand, the new Estonian Ambassador to the United States, presented her credentials to U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House. In a conversation that followed the presentation ceremony, President Obama welcomed Marina Kaljurand as the first female Estonian ambassador in Washington. He also expressed...

On Thursday, September 8, the Department of State hosted a gathering of Baltic Americans and representatives of those countries to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the re-establishment of full diplomatic relations between the United States and Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.  The theme of the reception was “Together Again.”  Photos portraying...

  A major festival of Estonian culture, Estonie tonique, will take place in Paris in October and November; it is so far the biggest cultural cooperation project between the two countries. The aim of the festival is to give a better idea of Estonia through the medium of culture and...

  ERR News - Continuing population loss due to declining birth rates and emigration are the most significant problem facing the Baltic states, according to the authors of the newly-released Estonian Human Development Report. The report, presented in Tallinn on September 5, noted that the collective populations of Estonia, Latvia...

  "Those are seljakotid!" – backpacks, is what I would have said once upon a time, since while living in Canada I had never heard of the term ranits. A ranits is a type of backpack used by young kids as schoolbags. They usually have sturdier sides and some older...

  ERR News - The paltry 278 euros per month, before taxes, that marks the legal minimum wage in Estonia comes in at 38 percent of the EU average, statistics from Eurostat show. Äripäev reported that  the minimum wage earners in Bulgaria are the worst off in the bloc, making...