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A study conducted by the Baltic Research Center revealed that Estonia has failed to ensure social protection and integration for the 46 refugees residing in the country. After eight months of waiting in the Illuka Reception Center for Asylum Seekers in Ida-Viru County, Afghanistan-born Azat was finally granted international protection...

As many as of 37 percent of 15- to 24-year-olds have tried marijuana, which is 11 percent more than the European average, a recent study conducted by the Saar Poll survey company revealed. Young people can easily acquire marijuana (also known as cannabis), said Nelli Kalikova, project manager at the...

The Thomas Keller Medal committee is delighted to announce that the 2011 Thomas Keller Medal, rowing's highest distinction, will this year be awarded to Estonian rowing legend Jueri Jaanson. The 18-carat gold medal shall be awarded on Sunday 10 July on the medal pontoon of the Samsung World Rowing Cup...

Austria Ungari keisririigi troonipärija, suurvürst Dr Otto von Habsburg, suri 4. juulil 2011, 98 aasta vanuses Baieris, Saksamaal. Baltlastel on põhjust leinata von Habsburgi - külma sõja üks vähemtuntuid kangelasi,  kes juba väga noorena kirglikult võitles natsismi ja kommunismi vastu. Peale 1st Maailmasõda ja keisririigi likvideerimist aastal 1918, sunniti Habsburgide...

Ambassador Michael C. Polt announced on July 4 at the U.S. Embassy’s Independence Day Reception the creation of a new Estonian American Innovation Award to highlight innovation in Estonia and collaboration between Estonia and America toward this end.   The new award is being sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in...

At his meeting in Vilnius on July 1,  with Secretary of State of the United States of America Hillary Clinton, Foreign Minister Urmas Paet expressed his satisfaction over the mutually supportive, exceptionally friendly, and very unique relations between Estonia and the USA. “Twenty years ago, after overcoming totalitarianism, we promised...

ERR News - "World and Land," Tallinn's Nokia Concert Hall, June 30. Tengku Ahmad Irfan (piano), Arvo Leibur (violin), Estonian National Male Choir, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Neeme Järvi. Strolling through Tallinn Thursday night on the way to Nokia Concert Hall, it seemed almost a sin to duck...

ERR News - A last vestigial trace of the 1990s Estonian success story Hansapank is no more. The Latvian and Lithuanian subsidiaries of Swedbank Estonia were sold to the parent Swedbank AB on June 28, in a straightforward financial transaction that had some sentimental significance because of its history. The...

ERR News -A rail project linking the Baltics from Tallinn to the Polish border is a realistic possibility, but will require 4,000 passengers a day, 440 million euros in state backing and 2 billion euros from the EU, according to a new feasibility study. Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications...

ERR News - President of Lebanon Michel Sulayman assured Foreign Minister Paet in Beirut that, to his knowledge, the seven Estonian cyclists kidnapped in Bekaa Valley on March 23 are alive. "The president just now told me at our meeting that, according to his sources, it is very clear that...