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According to the latest economic freedom index, compiled and published by the Heritage Foundation, a Washington, DC, based thinktank, Estonia has the eighth freest economy in the world, and the second freest in Europe, behind Switzerland, writes EstonianWorld.com The Heritage Foundation said that despite the eurozone crisis and a half-decade...

Photos: U.S. Embassy & Estonian Defense Forces   Knitted mittens and socks were given to US soldiers of Iron Troop, 3rd Squadron from the 2d Cavalry Regiment on January 27.   The hand-made gifts came from viewers of Estonian TV's program Prillitoos, who were asked to knit beautiful and warm...

The Ministry of Education and Research has launched a website dedicated to Estonians living abroad. The "Eestlased välismaal" (Estonians abroad) website https://www.hm.ee/et/eestlasedvalismaal contains answers to questions like how to enroll children to a school in different countries, where people can study the Estonian language, how to move back to Estonia...

Seen on a bright yellow pakendi/ringluse/tünn (package recycling container) on Soo tänav (Swamp Street) in Tallinn’s Kala/maja (Fish House) district. A pott/sepp is looking for work.   Pott/sepp is a compound word composed of pott (pot) + sepp (smith) and POTTER is one of its meanings, but not the primary...

ERR News - The US Army in Europe will soon send a team to scout locations in eastern Europe, including the Baltics, for locations to store tanks and other military equipment. “Maybe it’s a company, maybe it’s a whole battalion, we don’t know yet until we do the survey,” Lt....

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia could soon be ready to go ahead with the Russian-Estonian border treaty. His Estonian counterpart said that Estonia is waiting for concrete actions from Russia. “I am certain that the treaty will be ratified. In Estonia, this process has not been completed...

Eugene Birman (on the left) and Scott Diel (center) received the Creativity Recognition Award. Bikeep received the Newcomer Award.   There was some strong competition in this year’s Estonian American Innovation Awards. The five finalists this year were Bikeep, Eugene Birman & Scott Diel, Pipedrive, Planet OS, and Vertex Estonia...

ERR News –  Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas inaugurated a new 3.000 kilometer long data highway between Tallinn and Frankfurt on January 21, to offer significantly better speed and capacity. The new fiber-optic data channel allows capacity up to 9.6 Tbit/s and is the first encrypted direct connection from Estonia...

Aleksandra Piibe   Last fall “The Bay Eagle” of the Califonia’s El Segundo High School had an extensive interview with Aleksandra Piibe, a senior, described as “hästi kursis” or rather well-versed.   The interviewer, Anita Chauhan states that Aleksandra has excelled in every facet of her high school career, from...

EDM Machinery, a company which grew out of the University of Tartu, has launched the first 3D printer designed and built in Estonia. The idea to produce 3D printers came to the company after staff became tired of repairing a 3D printer they had purchased. “We now are aiming to...