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Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet said the captured counterintelligence official Eston Kohver's decision to waive hired lawyers means that objective information and Estonia's reactions to developments will no longer reach Kohver until a consul is again allowed to meet him. Paet told ETV on September 17, that only Kohver knows...

The University of Tartu rose and the Tallinn University of Technology fell in the latest QS World University Rankings. Tartu is 379th while the Tallinn school (not to be confused with Tallinn University) was between 501 and 550. Just two years ago, Tartu was under 500, while last year it...

The Estonian Police and Border Guard have released video showing a group of Estonian and Russian border guards doing a walkthrough shortly after the September 5 incident in which Estonian security police office Eston Kohver was abducted. The video is available at the uudised.err.ee site. A copy of the report...

The city of Tallinn installed 14 signs on September 8, indicating that it is permitted to drink in public around the Parliament and the presidential palace while open containers are banned in the rest of the city. The grudge match with the national government has spawned lively social media commentary...

Left to right: Jay Kaufman, Lexington Symphony board member; Epp Sonin, Lexington Symphony president and board chair; Joyce Vyriotes, communications director, Cummings Foundation; and Virginia Hecker, Lexington Symphony executive director, at a reception for Cummings Foundation grantees in June.   Courtesy photo   September 8, 2014, Lexington, MA.  Lexington Symphony, a...

Nikolai Polozov, one of the two prominent lawyers hired by Estonia to represent security police official Eston Kohver, told ETV in an exclusive interview that the case of the official believed abducted from Estonian soil was a bellwether for Russian judicial practice and a difficult challenge for the legal team....

September 1, 2014The President The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC 20500   Dear Mr. President, Estonian Americans applaud your upcoming visit to Estonia and hope that it signifies not only symbolic, but increased tangible U.S. support to the Baltic countries, Poland, and of course, Ukraine.  The protection...

  On August 23rd over a thousand people filled Chicago’s City Hall Plaza in anticipation of replicating the 400-mile long human chain that has become known as the Baltic Way and to remember the secret Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.   Due to heavy rain, after more than an hour’s delay, we were...

  August 23 marked the 75th anniversary of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which divided Europe and helped start the Second World War. The first commemoration of Black Ribbon Day to be held in the U.S. Capitol took place on August 23, with the assistance of Congressman John Shimkus (R-Ill.), the...

To mark the 70 years since the September 1944 flight from the Soviet invasion of Estonia, the Estonian American National Council will host a special panel discussion on Saturday, September 27, 2014, in Stamford, Connecticut, at the Stamford Sheraton Hotel.   The public is invited to the free, English-language panel...