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  An Estonian Girls choir will sing and perform in Missoula, MT, on July 16 – 21st, 2013, at our celebrated “International Choral Fes-tival – 2013 “. Since 1987, Missoula hosts choirs every 3 years from around the world who perform at free concert venues around town.  They are hosted...

The Sarasota Orchestra named Estonian conductor Anu Tali as its new music director. The 40-year-old Estonian is being signed to a three-year contract that will officially begin on 1 August. Tali, who led the orchestra in two concerts -- once this past season and the first two years ago, both...

  At the 55th international art biennale in Venice, Estonia is represented by the artist Dénes Farkas with the project “Evident in Advance”, curated by Adam Budak. Dénes Farkas is a Tallinn-based post-conceptual photo artist, who has been focusing on social structures since the second half of the 2000s and presenting...

  One out of eight wage earners in Estonia or approximately 65,000 peop-le are ready to look for work abroad, it appears from TNS Emor's annual survey of wage earners' expectations. The study reflected in-creased readiness to change jobs. Every third employee is considering changing jobs within a year and...

  PM - Estonian residents’ real individual purchasing-power parity based consumption is the lowest among Baltic countries, as evidenced by Eurostat data published on June 19. According to Eurostat figures for 2012, Estonia showed 59 per cent of European average, Latvia and Lithuania preceding it with 61 and 74 per...

  Every academic year an EANC scholarship is awarded to a Tallinn University graduate student whose research is related in some way to Estonia.  This year’s recipient is Liis Jõhvik, who began her master’s degree studies in history at Tallinn University last fall.  The prior spring, she successfully defended her...

  The victims of communism were commemorated at the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington on June 12, 2013. The chairmen of the foreign affairs committees of the parliaments of Nordic and Baltic countries, members of U.S. House of Representatives, as well as representatives of nearly 20 embassies were among...

– Alan Ago Koerv –  Vaba Eesti Sõna  - Thursday 30th May 2013    I read this article on the back page of ‘Vaba Eesti Sõna’ with great interest as I am both a linguist and a lover of poetry. I agree wholeheartedly with Alan Ago Koerv when he states...

  Jäätise/hooaeg (ice cream season) is in full swing and Estonians love their ice cream. It's particularly great to see older people enjoying jäätis on the street and in parks. It's an indulgence that's hard to resist even for people on a strict budget, as most Estonian senior citizens are....

Karina Leppik is now one of the mission commanders of the SOFIA  project of the NASA Agency. Karina used her pilot license and astronomy degree to get the job. She is the daughter of dr. Ülo Leppik and grandaughter of dr. Elmar Leppik formerly of Tartu University.   About SOFIA...