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Dear Fellow Estonian American and Friend of Estonia! December, 2015   Last December EANC announced a special fundraising drive to raise $200,000 by the end of 2015. The goal: to enable us to better counteract the actions and lies of the Russian propaganda machine, and to strengthen our efforts in...

The tax office of tech-savvy Estonia said on December 11 that it had teamed up with ride-sharing service Uber to test a unique system of drivers’ income reporting, which could eventually be rolled out worldwide. Due to be launched next year, the system first of its kind in the world,...

The illustrations were made by Karmen Heinmaa. On the e-card, the illustration is complemented by the tune Mu süda, ärka üles by the group Heinavanker, conducted by composer Margo Kõlar. You can also participate by clicking the characters with singing voices (a hint: there are seven in total hidden on...

For Estonians living in North America who love the classic Christmas food veri/vorstid (blood sausages), being able to buy a “verivorsti hot dog”, complete with pohla/moos (lingonberry jam) as the condiment at a kiosk on the street or convenience store is a dream come true, considering how hard it is...

Mauno Kork and Deborah Klepp   Pillerkaar performed 15 Estonian Folk Dances at Baltimore's Christmas Village at the Inner Harbor on Sunday, December 6, 2015. The robust dancers were Age Landra-Robinson, Andrus Kiik, Arnie Smits, Deborah Klepp, Eve Tisler, Jeff Zelek, Jyri Erik Kork, Kadri Kallas-Zelek, Laila Oinas, Lauri Tankler,...

PRESS RELEASE   UNDER FATE'S WING (Saatuse Tiiva All): A refugee Girl's Flight to Freedom in the Shadows of World War II is a gripping true story of home and childhood lost to war, survival in Germany through World War II and its aftermath, and a war-scarred girl’s unlikely transformation...

On the evening of November 25, Estonian parliament concluded the first reading of the bill on the ratification of the Estonian-Russian border treaty and the treaty on the delimitation of maritime areas, informs LETA/BNS. Minister of Foreign Affairs Marina Kaljurand said in her remarks in front of lawmakers that the...

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Currently “running in the kino” or playing in Estonian movie theatres: Näljamängud: Pilapasknäär - Osa 2. Do you get it? Photo: Riina Kindlam   Translating the titles of books and films from the original language is always challenging and the results are often amusing and enlightening.   Remember the 1997...

A new method of delivering data, which uses the visible spectrum rather than radio waves, has been tested in a working office in Tallinn. Li-fi can deliver internet access 100 times faster than traditional wi-fi, offering speeds of up to 1Gbps (gigabit per second). It requires a light source, such...