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There is often talk of a “global Estonia” since Estonians live all over the world possibly a couple of hundred thousand Estonians live now outside of Estonia.  Estonian Culture Minister Rein Lang said at the National Congress in SF that we live in a “global village”, he emphasized that this...

ERR News - One proposed route of the Rail Baltic project, which would connect Estonia to other Baltic nations and beyond by high-speed trains, would cut one community in Rapla County in half. “It would be like the Great Wall of China, which cuts one whole land in half. The...

ERR News - Freshly released figures from the 2011 census show that Estonia is now home to 180 ethnicities, 38 more than a decade ago, during the last count. Statistics Estonia analyst Anu Tõnurist said on the organization's blog today that while in many countries it is considered a form...

ERR News - A Russian AN-30B aircraft carried out an observation mission over Estonia on Tuesday, July 16th as part of the Open Skies Treaty. The aircraft was equipped with a panoramic camera, but all developed film will be done so in the presence of Estonian representatives, the Estonian Defense...

ERR News - A progress report on the statistical benchmarks of Estonia's integration plan finds that the unemployment rate gap between ethnic Estonians and non-Estonians widened last year. Produced by the Ministry of Culture, the report says the unemployment rate in 2012 was 8.8 percent among Estonians and 14.9 percent...

Tartu Hanseatic Days July 19 – 21, 2013 Tartu gets back in touch with its roots as a Hanseatic trading city with an upcoming and all-encompassing Medieval festival. Expect the town to fill with people wearing historic costumes, and the Old Town to turn into a gigantic marketplace. Each year,...

The U.S. debut of the Estonian National Ballet on June 28 night at the Palace of Fine Arts was the highlight of the gala that opened Lep-Esto 2013, a four-day celebration of Estonian culture in San Francisco, writes Mary Ellen Hunt in SFGate.com Now directed by Toomas Edur, the 87-year-old...

Midsummer eve or suvi/hari – "the peak of summer", also known as jaani/laupäev (St. John's Day Saturday, i.e. the eve before) has always been the perfect time to gather on the küla/kiik (village swing) in Eesti. The swing at the Eesti Vaba/õhu/muuseum (Open Air Museum, www.evm.ee) has this kasutus/juhend or...

NEWS RELEASE June 21, 2013 Officials from the City of Cumberland met with officials from Viljandi, Estonia plus the Estonian Embassy in Washington, DC and the US Embassy in Tallinn, Estonia via Skype exchange on Wednesday, June 19, 2013 to finalize a Memorandum of Cooperation between the two cities that...

  Spring is the busiest season of the year for Floridians and the Estonian Society of Central Florida (Kesk Florida Eesti Selts).  Activities span officially from Vabariigi Aastapäev to May and unofficially to Võidupüha and Jaanipäev. More than 60 members and guests of the Estonian Society of Central Florida (KFES)...