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The Estonian Cultural Heritage Fund, Inc., established to support the preservation of Estonian culture in the US, is now accepting scholarship applications for the 2011/2012 academic year. Applicants must be US citizens who are or have been active in Estonian-American organizations and have personally advanced their knowledge of and skills...

Lakewoodi Eesti Ühingu traditsiooniline sügishooaja avapidu algas maasikate ja vahuveini pakkumisega laupäeval, 25. septembril 2010 kohalikus Eesti Majas. Osalejatel oli võimalik tutvuda suures saalis väljapandud Maie Currie, Urve Põhi ja Salme Parmingu võetud tegevusaineliste fotodega.Publiku ette astus nägusas ja ühtlases riietuses 18-liikmeline New Yorgi Eesti Naiskoor oma armastatud koorijuhi Andrejs...

ERR News - “Bring Talent Home” resurfaced in the Estonian media, after the evening ETV program “Vabariigi Kodanikud” (Citizens of the Republic) ran an hour-long program on the topic.“Bring Talent Home” is a project financed by EU structural funds that invites expat Estonians back via the online platform, www.talendidkoju.ee. Highly...

8 October (BNS) - A team of surgeons under Tanel Laisaar at the University of Tartu Clinical Hospital on Thursday performed the first ever lung transplant operation in Estonia. The results of the operation are in line with expectations at this point, spokespeople for the hospital said. The surgery was...

ERR News - Local opposition politicians will now have a better chance of swaying presidential elections thanks to changes to the election law adopted by Parliament on October 27.The amendment to the law that governs presidential elections, which passed 57 to 20 with one abstention, affects the way local government...

New Yorgi Lincoln Center’is toimuva uuel sügisfestivalil The White Light Festival esinevad Läti Rahvuskoor Tõnu Kaljuste juhatusel ja Läti kammeransambel Kremerata Baltica koos viiuldaja Gidon Kremeriga. Festivalil esitatakse ka Arvo Pärdi ja Veljo Tormise heliteoseid.Läti Rahvuskoor Tõnu Kaljuste juhatusel: Reedel, 12. nov. kell 10.30 pl. Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse. Kavas:...

Suurbritannia kuninganna Elizabeth II andis 20. oktoobril eesti balletitantsijatele Toomas Edurile ja Age Oksale üle Briti impeeriumi ordeni (Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE) nende panuse eest Suurbritannia kunstimaailma ning Suurbritannia ja Eesti kultuurisuhete edendamisse.«Ma ei ole ammu nii närvis olnud, see oli nagu enne mõnda suurt...

150 aastat maalikunsti Enn Kunila kogust . Näitus „Eesti värvid“ on eriline, sest sellist valikut ja sellisel hulgal pole Eesti kunst välismaale pääsenud juba 80 aastat.  1929. aastal – aasta  pärast Helsingi Taidehalli avamist oli just neis samades saalides väljas eesti kunstnike 270 tööd. Kuni 24. novembrini on siin 111...

The Estonian Students Fund in USA was founded in 1961 to provide scholarships and grants to students of Estonian heritage.  Since the mid-1990s, the Fund has seen increasing requests for support from students in Estonia and fewer requests for support from Estonian-Americans in the USA.  While we gladly support Estonian...

President Toomas Hendrik Ilves is inviting expats who have made it elsewhere to return to Estonia. I heard a local Estonian woman ask, “Why would they want to do that? What Ilves and all those Toompea troublemakers want is their money”.  Considering the present state of global financial affairs, it...