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From L-R: Donna Pearson, John Fuyuume (Trustee Emeritus), Bruce T. Peterson (president of SECC), SECC Executive Board members, Ingrid Hawk, Eevi Truumees, Linda Ono, Lenore Wurtzel, Sharon Yoshida ja Stefanie Pierce.   Photo by Stanley Kaneshilu   The multicultural Museum at Seabrook, NJ celebrated the 20th anniverssary of SECC with a...

Estonian Minister of the Interior Hanno Pevkur announced in ETV on September 30,  that the government plans to establish a new border control task force to carry out special operations. "Today we have a clear understanding that in addition to regular border control, we will establish a special task force,"...

ETV nightly news ran a segment on Kent Härstedt, a Social Democratic MP who at age 29 was one of the passengers on the ill-fated Estonia ferry. He said he was most bothered by the question of how quickly the ferry sank - in just 30 minutes - as well...

This fishing motorboat, on display at the Museum of Occupations in Tallinn, was built in the 1930s. It safely reached the island of Gotland in Sweden in the fall of 1944 with its cargo of passengers escaping Estonia ahead of the next Soviet invasion.  Next to it is a naval...

Presented by Stanford University and the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, October 8–10, 2014, Stauffer Auditorium, Hoover Institution.   Wednesday, October 89:00 AMWelcome Remarks – Eric T. Wakin, Robert H. Malott Director of Hoover Institution Library & ArchivesOpening Remarks – Amir Weiner, Stanford University9:15-10:45 AM – Chair: Amir Weiner  ...

Two fishermen detained by Estonian border guards after their boat crossed onto the Estonian side are both former KGB officers, Russian news website 47news.ru said. The two men resisted arrest by Estonian authorities and attempted to flee back to the Russian side on September 20, but border guards managed to...

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A definitive slice of life in Eesti in late summer is picking apples, but not so much from trees, as from crates left by people’s gates, baskets left in school cafeterias and bowlfuls left in workplace kitchens. If you love your colleagues, you bring them apples. Or, you simply need...

  Poet Kristiina Ehin and her husband, the musician Silver Sepp, will tour California this autumn to launch her new book of short stories entitled Walker on Water, published by Unnamed Press. More information about the book: http://unnamedpress.com/books/book/13. Readings/performances have so far been planned at the following locations, though the...