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Conductor Anu Tali (center) after the concert with Ambassador Marina Kaljurand, Consul General Sten Schwede, Honorary Concul Lisa Mets together with members of the local Kesk Florida Eesti Selts and their friends from Estonia, Minnesota, etc.     Photo by Monika Orumaa Craig   The Sarasota Orchestra welcomes their new Music Director...

Get the cameras rolling!   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TORONTO, CANADA, March 24, 2014 – The tenth annual EstDocs Documentary Film Festival in Toronto is now accepting domestic and international submissions for its Short Documentary Film Competition. The complete EstDocs Film Festival will run from October 17-21, 2014. Competition winners have the...

March 25, 2014 marks 65 years from the day when over 20 000 people – nearly 3 percent of the 1945 Estonian population – were seized by soviet authorities in a few days and dispatched to remote areas of Siberia. In the summer of 1940 the Soviet Union occupied Estonia,...

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Fred confronts judges Norman, Courtney and Alex. "American Monkey" by Mihkel Raud, freeFall Theatre, St. Petersburg, Florida. March 2014. Photo by Mike Wood Lighting.   On Saturday night, March 15, 2014, at the freeFall Theatre, the international premiere of Mihkel Raud’s “American Monkey” opened to a sold-out theatre.   Mihkel...

The Estonian American National Council (EANC) announces solicitation of award nominees for the 2014 EANC awards program to recognize exceptional Estonian American individuals or organizations.   EANC invites you to submit your nominations for these awards, which were instituted at EANC’s 60th Anniversary Gala in 2012. This year’s awards ceremony...

The March 2014 issue of "EANC Newsletter" has been mailed!   It features information about the Estonian American National Council’s upcoming elections, an article about the Arvo Pärt Project, the latest Washington DC update from the Joint Baltic National Committee, and a recap of other important news.   If you...

The Reform Party and the Social Democrats signed their coalition agreement in the Riigikogu building in Tallinn on March 20.   The Reform Party will hold the seats of prime minister, foreign minister, minister of the interior, finance minister, health and labor minister, minister of the environment, minister of foreign...

ERR News - ERR's US correspondent reports that a Russian diplomat quoted by Reuters as voicing concern over Estonian policies as compared to Ukraine mentioned the countries in a different context.   "Language should not be used to segregate and isolate groups,“ the diplomat was quoted by Reuters as saying,...

Andres Simonson’s Greeting At The Estonian Independence Day Celebration in Lakewood, NJ   Tere tulemast and welcome. My job today is to greet you and make you feel welcome at our Estonian Independence Day celebration. But as I set the joyous mood for today’s Lakewood Estonian House festivities, many will...