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  Lee Edwards While members of Cong-ress, former cabinet members, long-time aides and assorted VIPs were celebrating Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday at the Reagan Presi-dential Library in sun-baked Simi Valley, California, I was nearly 6,000 miles away in snow-bound Tallinn, Estonia, a small Baltic country borde-ring on the former Soviet...

  ERR News - The Estonian Road Administration announced that all six of the state-funded ice roads were in service by February 26. The fifth, 12-kilometre link was opened on February 22, connecting the country's largest island to the mainland road network.  The last time motorists could make a circuitous...

  ERR News - February 24, 1918 was the day when the Estonian Declaration of Independence, issued by the Maapäev (National Council), was printed and proclaimed in Tallinn. "In the course of centuries, never have the Estonian people lost their desire for independence. From generation to generation, they have kept...

Washington, DC (JBANC) --- The ninth Joint Baltic American National Com-mittee, Inc. (JBANC) confe-rence being held in Washington, DC on April 1-2, 2011 will commemorate fifty years of activism for the Baltic cause. JBANC, founded in 1961, will hold its half-century conference at the Washington Court Hotel on Capitol Hill:...

I have been in Tallinn for a week to get some things done when my wife’s son Uku called to invite us to The Estonian Television Studio where he was rehearsing for the Estonian Song competition  which will take place on the 19th of February coming up. Uku is performing...

  Every time I start something new, I want it to be done yesterday. I have been talking and writing about our 100kW Kurenurme Solar Project for a couple of years now. Like a Jehovah Witness trying to save the world I sometimes feel no one, not even the Estonian...

ERR News - The Nordic Junior and U23 World Ski Champion-ships started on January 26 in the southern Estonian town of Otepää, marking the country's biggest-ever high-profile athletic competition. Seven hundred young athletes from 38 countries will compete in single and cross country skiing, ski jumping and the biathlon. Estonia...

ERR News  - A grassroots nonprofit representing internet users has criticized the announ-cement of a public tender for a solution to allow diacritic marks such as umlauts and tildes in domain names. The group, the Estonian Internet Community, says that the move would only cause confusion and force users to...

ERR News - On a visit to the United States, Foreign Minister Urmas Paet met with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on January 20 to discuss Afghanistan, NATO and relations with Russia. "Now I could go on and on about Estonia, and I have enjoyed already two visits as Secretary...

On January 25, 2011, Embassy Tallinn opened its fourth American Corner in Estonia.  The Corner is in Tartu and joins the three existing American Corners in Kuressaare, Viljandi and Narva. Our diplomatic mission encompasses all of Estonia, not only Tallinn, and the American Corners allow us to more readily engage...