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The Estonian American National Council held its annual meeting on September 14, 2013, at the Estonian Embassy in Washington DC.  Featured agenda items were EANC’s 2014 activities, which include its continued support for Estonian America youth organizations such as the boy scouts, girl guides and Long Island children’s summer camp,...

Nancy Bush,  an avid American knitter, became an enthusiast of Estonian handicrafts when she found a book at the Salt Lake City Library about 20 years ago. The book was printed in Russian in 1956 and talked about Estonian Folk Costumes. At the end of the book she encountered pictures...

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In the photo Arved Plaks   Thoughts Inspired By The Conference At The Stanford University On June 27 Concurrent With LEP-ESTO One advantage of living in hot Texas is this. On my way to San Francisco I did not finish my cup of coffee by time I arrived at the...

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Märkamisaeg. Foto: Mihkel Maripuu/Postimees   The U.S. Embassy congratulates all Estonians as they celebrate their restoration of independence. On August 20, 1991, after more than 50 years of illegal occupation, the Estonian Supreme Council declared the re-establishment of Estonia as an independent state. Though today the exciting events of this...

ERR News - Countless flags - and drinking glasses - were raised across Estonia on August 20, in honor of Re-Independence Day, the natio-nal holiday marking the day in 1991 when the country officially broke away from Moscow after nearly a half century of Soviet rule.On August 20 of that...

Estonian diplomat Marten Kokk has been named the new head of the budget committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The committee is only one of three permanent committees of a total of 250 in the organization. Kokk will be the first Estonian to claim such a high...

By Steve Roman Photo: Peeter Langovits/Postimees British journalist and political commentator Abdul Turay (on the photo) has accepted an offer by the Social Democratic Party to stand as one of its candidates for the Tallinn City Council in October, a move that makes him the first black man, and one...

(L-R) Haley Segura, Alexa Thompson, Mari Käärid and Hanna Laanemaa Berrytree.  Seedrioru Suvekodu 2013.   As I was christened on the porch steps of my grandparents cottage at Seedrioru on July 11, 1970, I instinctively knew I was home.  My older sister called this place Eestimaa, the smell of warm...