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Rick Steves' Europe It's amazing what a stretch of water can do. The country of Estonia sits across the Baltic Sea from Sweden and Finland. Yet the struggles of the last couple of generations couldn't be more different on opposite sides of the sea. Traveling to this former Soviet republic...

It’s amazing what a stretch of water can do. The country of Estonia sits across the Baltic Sea from Sweden and Finland. Yet the struggles of the past couple of generations couldn’t be more different on opposite sides of the sea. Traveling to this former Soviet republic spices up any visit...

Edward Lucas A crisis is an expensive lesson, and wasting anything expensive is bad. So Estonians should use these hard times to take a hard look at themselves, their society and their state, and work out how to dump bad habits and adopt good ones. Learning from your own mistakes...

  “Estonia and the people of Estonia have endured a lot. However, even today we don’t have a real overview of what exactly happened in Estonia during the Soviet period,” said President Toomas Hendrik Ilves on Decemeber 8, in Kadriorg, at the first session of the Learned Committee of the...

BNS - Estonian students are third in Europe after Finland and Ireland for their reading skills and their knowledge of mathematics and science subjects, it appears from a recent European Commission report. According to the Education Ministry the number of students with a poor achievement level in science subjects is...

  BNS - Inspired by the "Let's Do It Estonia 2008" campaign, NGOs in Romania are preparing for a campaign in which volunteers will collect illegally dumped or littered garbage across the country in May 2010. The Romanian NGO's behind the initiative have named it "Let's Do It Romania." The...

  Eesti muusika klassiku Cyrillus Kreegi sünnist Läänemaal Saanika külas Võnnu vallas möödus 3. detsembril 120 aastat. Kui me Cyrillus Kreeki (1889-1962) ei saa Eesti professionaalse heliloomingu pärisalustajate hulka enam lugeda, siis selle algusperioodi suurte edendajate hulka kuulub ta kindlasti. Eelkõige seisavad Cyrillus Kreegi teened meie rahvusliku omapäraga koorimuusika edasiviimises,...

Praegu rahulikult jõule ootav pealinn oli eelmistel nädalatel tõeline filmimeka, kuna toimumas oli 13. Pimedate Ööde Filmi-festival (PÖFF), mis oma nelja filmiprogrammiga pakkus kõigile midagi väärtuslikku. Ligi kuu aja jooksul said oma osa nii lühifilmide, animatsioonide kui lastefilmide austajad ning nädalased alaprogrammid andsid peakorraldaja Tiina Loki sõnul sellel aastal  eriti...

TORONTO, November 30 - Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre, Hon. Bob Rae introduced a resolution today to recognize August 23rd –Black Ribbon Day- as a national Canadian day of remembrance for the millions of victims of totalitarian Communism and Nazism in Europe. The resolution, seconded by Etobicoke Centre MP,...

FM Review - In the early morning hours of 1 December 1924, a couple of hundred armed Communist conspirators attempted a coup d’etat in Tallinn. The conspirators killed approximately 20 people including the Estonian Minister of Transport Karl Kark. The Estonian people reacted quickly and crushed the attempted coup.1923 and...