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JBANC Press Release: February 7, 2014  (Washington, DC) – Circassian-American activists, who trace their roots to the Sochi region in the North Caucasus, participated on February 6 in the first-ever Google+ Hangout organized and hosted online by the Joint Baltic American National Committee, Inc. (JBANC). On the eve of the official...

A new Supreme Court decision looks to shake up inheritance issues in Estonia, reversing a longstanding taxation policy. For the last 20 years, monetary gains from selling inherited property were subject to full income tax. Yesterday, the court threw that out of the window, reports Postimees.   The case stemmed...

The EANC Election Committee announces elections for the Estonian American National Council’s XXI Council, as authorized by the current XX Council. Members are elected for four years.  EANC, representing the interests of Estonian Americans, works to preserve, promote and support our Estonian cultural heritage and U.S. Estonian communities, as well...

The Consul General of Estonia will be visiting St. Petersburg, Florida on Friday, February 21, 2014, and Miami, Florida, on Monday, February 24, 2014. He will be accepting appointments for applications for identity cards, new passports and passport renewals from those with legitimate status in the US.   To make...

Free public transportation in Tallinn has created interest in world media, both in business and urban planning circles. FastCompany magazine analyzes the topic under headline “Why the worlds largest experiment in free public transportation failed”, stating that when Tallinn about an year ago made public transportation free to its residents...

The finale of the Song Festival in 2004. I am on the stage’s 23th row, the 96th from the right; did you find me?   by Arved Plaks   Soon, this coming July, Estonia will burst into singing and dancing. Well, not every Estonian, but those not singing or dancing...

More photos here      Photos by Siiri Lind   Food competitions organized by Liisi Vanaselja have  become a small tradition here in the New York Estonian House – the competition got started two years ago with the “pirukate” (Estonian small pies) contest, Estonian potato salad was in competition last...

ERR News - Senior cabinet members commented on January 30, on a case involving a naturalized Estonian citizen, a 13-year-old girl, who ended up with Russian citizenship as well – an illegal situation under Estonian law – due to an application filed by her father. Prime Minister Andrus Ansip said...

You may have heard or experienced that Estonian is not the easiest language to master.   It sounds and is composed unlike most other languages, which means that English, German, Spanish, French, or Russian are more similar to each other than any of them are to Estonian.   Spoken by...

Parliament's Constitutional Committee is discussing whether to classify for 30 years all recordings and transcripts of parliamentary committee meetings, according to Eesti Ekspress.   Meetings have been recorded for years, but journalists and prosecutors have been denied access to the records, the paper reported on January 23, adding that the...