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UNHCR Senior Regional External Relations Officer in the Baltic States and Nordic Countries Markku Aikomus said that it is urgently needed for Estonia to admit more refugees into the country, reports Eesti Päevaleht. He explained that while countries surrounding global conflict areas are overburdened with refugees, Estonia has granted asylum...

On the page www.facebook.com/veebikonsul, officials from the Foreign Ministry’s consular department share information regarding travel and consular services and answer questions. In a crisis situation the page will be used to provide updates and advice. Foreign Minister Urmas Paet stated that virtual environments allow the state to converse with its...

ERR News  – Estonian Public Broadcasting has rejected an offer from a Ukrainian TV channel to broadcast its news on ETV, preferring to use clips from the channel as part of its own news broadcasts. TV5, which belongs to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, offered a number of foreign TV stations...

Suddenly A Tiny Country Feels Like A Very Big Place   Estonian Choir from Seattle marching in Song Festival Parade in Tallinn.     Photo by VES   Estonians say that everything changes in Tallinn during the week of the quintennial song and dance festival that everyone calls Laulupidu.   This  northern...

ERR News - A few weeks after British billionaire Richard Branson made an 18.5-million-euro investment into the Estonian-founded business Transfer-Wise, Äripäev reported that Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has invested in 3D Control Systems, which also has Estonian roots. The company, which has its R&D center in Tallinn, is developing cloud...

ERR News - The XXVI song and XIX dance festival issued 154,000 tickets and invitations in total, with 33,000 singers and 10,000 dancers performing. There were 153,822 tickets sold and invitations issued in total for this year’s three dance performances and two concerts of the Song and Dance Festival titled...

Liina M. Sarapik and Hirvo Surva.   For the last three and a half days I have been immersed in, what my opinion, is the epitome of Estonian culture and the Estonian people – laulupidu (song festival).  In the past year I had taken part in several larger scale events...

Save the date!  The Estonian American National Council invites you to attend “Estonians in America – Past, Present and Future,” a special seminar to be held on Saturday afternoon, September 27, 2014, in Stamford, Connecticut.   The English language seminar, which is free and open to the public, will be...

Ellen Spitaleri writes in the June 11. 2014 The Oregon City News: “Local director builds song bridge to Estonia”   When Lonnie Cline heard the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir sing in 1993, the music spoke to him, and he was hooked. The article states that the conductor and artistic director...

  That’s what all the folk dancers, young and old, who have gathered from all over Estonia and the world, to practice throughout this past week for the upcoming tantsu/pidu or 3 performances of the Dance Celebration are hoping: that the cool, rainy conditions endured for many days (and all...