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Craft Camp is a handicraft workshop week during July 4–10, 2015 in Olustvere, Estonia. The camp invites people outside of Estonia to come and learn new skills in a variety of handicraft workshops.Latest registration time is until May 20! Read more about the workshops at the camp here: http://www.kultuur.ut.ee/en/craft-camp/ws There's...

Foreign Minister Keit Pentus-Rosimannus signs the decision to support refugees from Eastern Ukraine through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) with an aid worth 200,000 euros. According to United Nations' Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), there are over a...

A total of 651,500 people submitted income tax forms by the deadline in Estonia. The Tax Board had hoped for 640,000. The Tax Board is still hoping to increase that figure, saying those who fill in their 2014 tax forms now, will not be fined. The percentage of people doing...

You might have heard the joke "Estonian has no sex and no future" before, referring of course to the fact that there are no genders and no future tense in the Estonian language, but did you know that it doesn't have a longest word either? To mark the Mother Tongue...

Leo Radosavljevic, Ambassador Eerik Marmei and Brendan Tarm.  Photos by Siim Sööt   Sunday, February 22nd was a special occasion at the Chicago Estonian House (Chicago Eesti Maja – CEM). It was not only an occasion to celebrate another Independence Day but also have on display the acclaimed Displaced Persons 70th...

11th JBANC Baltic Conference, April 17-18, 2015   Come to hear diplomats and experts discuss what Russia’s invasion of Ukraine means for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and its neighbors.     Friday, April 17, 2015 2:00 - 4:00 PM --- Briefing by U.S. State Department officials6:00 - 8:00 PM ---...

It was a cold, snowy night in Salt Lake City, Utah, but Estonians from Provo to Park City gathered at our house to celebrate Estonian Independence Day.   This group of twenty-five Estonians, ages 3–73, have come to Utah for many different reasons – jobs, skiing, college, and even some for...

ERR News. Photographer Aleksandr Abrosimov recorded an interesting natural phenomenon at Stroomi beach in Tallinn – bizarre ice balls that look as if a prehistoric beast has laid its eggs on the beach. Pictures of the balls, 5–10 centimeters in diameter, were published in one of Germany's biggest news portals...

2–9 August, 2015. Dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Estonia in 2018.   Are you a young journalist? Would you like to spend one week in August in Estonia learning more about Estonia, Estonian society and the Estonian way of life? Apply for a Study Visit of...

Gayle Williams writes in The Sarasota Tribune: Lately the Anu Tali and the Sarasota Orchestra have been putting this self-respecting music critic in a bit of a pickle.   \With performances consistently at such high levels, what is there to write but endless words of praise? Even in the dry...