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A team from USS Oscar Austin crew gave a helping hand on Tallinn Song Festival grounds to set benches for the visitors of the upcoming Estonian Song Festival. More photos here: http://goo.gl/mNpaXi.  Photo by US Embassy Tallinn

ERR News - The coalition today pushed through the much disputed business vehicle VAT exemption cut bill at an extraordinary sitting, 56 votes to 32. The bill was first floated by Finance Minister Jürgen Ligi last year, as part of an attack on tax fraud and exemptions, but was shot...

Photo from last week’s re-burial of August and Regina Võhma.   Major August Võhma, was re-buried next to his commanding officer Col Alfons Rebane at Metsakalmistu just outside of Tallinn.   Võhma was just an ensign in 1940 but in four short years was promoted to major. Col Rebane was...

First prize – Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano from Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos SLP, Spain, titled TABULA. See all the works at www.arvopart.ee/en/kellasalu/architectural-competition   On 20 June 2014, President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves announced the winners of the contest for the architectural design of the Arvo Pärt Centre building at...

  A Canadian actress of Estonian origin, Julia Desotto, will give four performances in Estonia this month, presenting her one-woman show about three significant female figures in her life: her Estonian mother, Italian grandmother and Scottish mother-in-law. The English-language production, "I Remember Mama," made its debut at the Tarragon Theatre...

Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja took a jab at Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who said the situation in eastern Ukraine bears a resemblance to the events of 1919 and 1940 in Estonia. In his Estonian Victory Day speech on June 23 (see the speech at president.ee), the Estonian head...

Photos: Historic Estonian Church has also a Facebook community page “Estonian Ev. Martin Luther Church in Gleason, Wisconsin”.   The Estonian Evangelical Martin Luther Church, located in Wisconsin, is the first Estonian church built in the United States, and today it stands as the only one in the state.  ...

One of the number of Song and Dance Festival sponsors is Felix, producer of hapu/kurgid (pickles), moosid (jams), mahlad (juices), majonees, ketšup and supid, such as the made-for-this-summer-only laulu/peo/supp – song festival soup. The type of soup chosen for this honor is värske/kapsa/borš veise/lihaga or fresh cabbage borscht with beef,...

Photo by Valts Vitums — at Victims of Communism Memorial.   Ambassador Kaljurand and Col. Aivar Salekešin laid a wreath at the Victims of Communism Memorial today. People gathered there on June11, 2014, for the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation's (VOC) 20th Anniversary Ceremony. At this ceremony, VOC awarded, for...

Commander in Chief of the Defense Forces Maj. Gen. Riho Terras said that NATO’s command supports Estonia’s suggestion to create a Tallinn-based training ground for cyber warfare. According to Terras, funding has been allocated for the project, mainly aimed at building the infrastructure for information processing and Estonia is hoping...