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"Issi, sülle!" In a word: "Daddy, pick me up!" "Carry me!" "I want to sit in your lap!" I heard that a lot this morning, when the kids at my daughter's day care and kindergarten were overjoyed at having their daddies over for breakfast. Not just any breakfast, but a...

Estonians abroad may think that the recent local/municipal elections in Estonia have only minor ramifications on power politics in the country. After all, it is not as if the mayors of Toronto or Halifax have real clout when it comes to federal politics. Toronto Mayor Miller’s foreign policy views or...

3 November (BNS) - Latest data show that the population size of some wild animal species living in Estonian forests has risen more over the past decade than ever before during the time for which records exist, Eesti Päevaleht said.Peep Mannil, head of the game census department at the Centre...

Jüri Estam’s summary of the article by George Feifer on the Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty website (http://www.rferl.org).There are two kinds of unsolved mysteries: the kind that unresolved, but without apparent funny business, such as the case of Amelia Earhart, who disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean during an...

YLE - Starting next July, every person in Finland will have the right to a one-megabit broadband connection, says the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Finland is the world's first country to create laws guaranteeing broadband access. The government had already decided to make a 100 Mb broadband connection a...

 Government News – On October 14, when opening the “Baltic Clean and Green Conference“, Prime Minister Andrus Ansip stressed the importance of new energy technologies in the creation of sustainable economic growth. In addition to the importance of international cooperation, he also talked about the future of Estonian energy. Ansip...

I am writing this in English, for I want to have its intended message reach across our diaspora, the Estonian diaspora.  It has been done before, but the context was different and it was long ago. It is high time that we write the histories of our organizations and our...

bbn.ee - Statistics compiled by Estravel indicate that the decline in the number of air passengers and direct flights has caused an increase in the prices of plane tickets from Tallinn to European capitals.The prices of plane tickets with taxes have increased to nearly all of the most popular European...

bbn.ee - Tallinna Kaubamaja AS, Estonia’s largest retailer’s shares, fell greatly five weeks after the company said it will close all six of its Selver supermarkets in Latvia and cut 220 jobs in the neighboring country because of a “sudden deterioration” in the Baltic country’s economy.Kaubamaja shares fell almost 12...

Washington, DC (JBANC) --- Following recent important foreign policy trips by President Obama to Moscow and Vice President Biden to Ukraine and Georgia, the Central and East European Coalition (CEEC), an assembly of 18 ethnic organizations representing the communities of Central and East European descent, had an opportunity to meet...