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President Obama Announces Nominee for Ambassador to the Republic of Estonia
The White House - On September 25, 2009 President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate Michael C. Polt to the post of Ambassador to the Republic of Estonia.Michael Polt is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service and has been the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau...
Distinguished Estonian Buried With Military Honors
On September 18, 2009 Lieutenant Colonel Vallo Truumees was memorialized and interred at Arlington National Ceme-tery. He is one of only less than 10 persons of Estonian heritage to receive this honor. Anyone who knew Vallo will tell you he was a larger-than-life character; a man who loved life and...
23 August: Europe-Wide Remembrance Day For The Victims Of All Totalitarian And Authoritarian Regimes
MFA Review - On 23 August 1939, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany concluded a treaty of non-aggression known as the Molotov- Ribbentrop Pact (hereinafter the MRP) after its signatories, the Soviet Union's People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov and Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany Joachim von Ribbentrop. In...
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