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Shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the University of Tartu (UT) established a scholarship fund to support refugee Ukrainian students’ studies at UT. These donations and scholarships are administered by the University of Tartu Foundation. Despite numerous and varied initiatives, the funds accumulated in the scholarship fund are falling...

Estonians across the world are not a community separate from Estonian society; instead, they have a strong emotional and cultural bond with Estonia, a study commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and carried out by the Institute of Baltic Studies shows. The majority of the expat Estonian community have...

HSBC, the largest bank in Europe, has made a US$35 million investment in the London-based banking app, Monese, founded by the Estonian entrepreneur, Norris Koppel, writes Estonian World. The investment was made by HSBC Ventures that provides capital to support growth initiatives for global clients specialising in innovation and technology....

It’s perhaps one of the questions most often posed recently. At the time of this writing, Ukrainian forces were making significant gains in the eastern Russian-occupied areas. In fact, a sense of an inevitable Ukrainian victory was palpable. Putin’s bound to retaliate. But will an end to the conflict, which...

An exhibition by the Estonian Institute of Human Rights on Tallinn's Freedom Square remembers the journeys of Estonians who fled the advancing Soviet Army in 1944. A balloon-filled boat, the Boat of Tears, has been installed to commemorate the approximately 80,000 Estonians and thousands more people from the region who...

The Embassy of Estonia in Washington, DC, will be closed for relocation from September 22nd through October 5th. The good news is that after almost two years of renovation, the Embassy will be able to move back to its original location on 2131 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC, 20008.This will...

Karl Altau, JBANC In August, a delegation of 15 representatives from Pärnu County in Estonia visited St. Mary’s County in Maryland, about an hour’s drive southeast of Washington, DC. They were there to promote a budding relationship, which had officially gotten its start in December 2019, but was slowed down...

Rising interest rates and general uncertainty are likely to lead to a decline in real estate prices in the near future, experts are predicting. Prices stopped rising several months ago. More and more experts are forecasting a drop in prices, ERR news program reported on September 14. Real estate entrepreneur...

“Water Works” is a group exhibition curated by Danielle Wu that brings together seven artists who turn to the washroom as an aesthetic resource: Hana Al-Saadi, Laurie Kang, Ajay Kurian, Fatima Moallim, Mia Raadik, Pauline Shaw, and HaeAhn Woo Kwon. Whether inside the sauna, the hammam, the beauty salon, or...

At an extraordinary NATO meeting on September 9, Secretary of State Antony Blinken informed Allies about upcoming U.S. support worth $2.2 billion in long-term investments to our Allies and partners, including Estonia. These long-term investments bolster the security of Ukraine and 17 of its neighbors potentially at risk of future...