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Twenty years ago The New York Times agreed with the administration’s foreign policy that favored democratization of the Soviet Union but not its disintegration. On November 6. 1989,  the paper published a dissenting letter, and supplied its own headline. Ago Ambre November 6, 1989 To the Editor:  Your observation that...

YLE - Starting next July, every person in Finland will have the right to a one-megabit broadband connection, says the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Finland is the world's first country to create laws guaranteeing broadband access. The government had already decided to make a 100 Mb broadband connection a...

 Government News – On October 14, when opening the “Baltic Clean and Green Conference“, Prime Minister Andrus Ansip stressed the importance of new energy technologies in the creation of sustainable economic growth. In addition to the importance of international cooperation, he also talked about the future of Estonian energy. Ansip...

  Saaremaa keskaegne Pöide kirik on praeguseks nii viletsas seisus, et selle võlve ähvardab kokkuvarisemine, kirjutab Eesti Päevaleht. Kiriku katusekivid on suures osas purunenud ja sademeid kinni ei pea. Nii ongi kiriku puidust katusekonstruktsioon kohati pehkinud ja seda purevad seenhaigused. Siseruumides vohavad liigniiskuse tõttu rohevetikad ja võlvidelt kukub alla krohvi....

Novembris saab näha Kristi Roosmaad New Yorgi off-Broadway teatris C. Porter´i muusikali "Silk Stockings" lavastuses, mida produtseerib teada-tuntud kompanii Musicals Tonight.  Kristi Roosmaa sündis 1981. aastal Eestis ning astus esmakordselt lavale viieaastaselt. Ta on osalenud artistina loendamatutel kontsertidel, show-del, festivalidel, lauluvõistlustel ja meistriklassides üle Euroopa ning USA. 2005. aastal lõpetas...

Olev Olesk. “Globaalne Eesti”.  Kirjastus “Varrak”,  Tallinn, 2009;  255 lk. “Eesti perspektiiv maailma taustal”  –   nii võiks ümber sõnastada äsjailmunud sini-must-valgesse köidetud raamatu pealkirja. Teose autor on New Yorgis elav Eesti eksiilvalitsuse viimane välisminister Olev Olesk, kes riigitegevuse kõrval on ka haridus-, rahandus- ja seltskonnategelane. Raamat on idee poolest...

I am writing this in English, for I want to have its intended message reach across our diaspora, the Estonian diaspora.  It has been done before, but the context was different and it was long ago. It is high time that we write the histories of our organizations and our...

bbn.ee - Statistics compiled by Estravel indicate that the decline in the number of air passengers and direct flights has caused an increase in the prices of plane tickets from Tallinn to European capitals.The prices of plane tickets with taxes have increased to nearly all of the most popular European...

bbn.ee - Tallinna Kaubamaja AS, Estonia’s largest retailer’s shares, fell greatly five weeks after the company said it will close all six of its Selver supermarkets in Latvia and cut 220 jobs in the neighboring country because of a “sudden deterioration” in the Baltic country’s economy.Kaubamaja shares fell almost 12...

Tõlkija ja germanist Mati Sirkel saab Austria teaduse ja kunsti auristi.Austria president Heinz Fischer otsustas anda tõlkija Mati Sirkelile Austria teaduse ja kunsti auristi, tegemist on ühe kõrgeima autasuga, mida Austria annab teadusliku või loomingulise tegevuse eest, teatas Austria saatkond.Austria suursaadik Eestis Angelika Saupe-Berchtold annab Sirkelile auristi üle 14. oktoobril....