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JBANC is calling on Baltic Americans to join us in welcoming the new Congress and letting them know about the issues that matter to us! Baltic Advocacy Days 2021 will take place virtually March 8-12 and requires registration by February 15th. Participants will have opportunities to speak up for Estonia,...

Žorik was mentioned in the article describing the Kassi/abi cat shelter calender on this page two weeks ago.  The legendary, elderly (14+ year-old), ailing Kalamaja neighborhood lind/prii (outlaw, "bird free", free as a bird), as he is known, was safely retired to an outdoor enclosure in the countryside this past...

On January 19th, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) held its hearing to consider the nomination of Mr. Antony Blinken to the position of Secretary of State. The Central and East European Coalition (CEEC) drafted and submitted questions to the Committee to highlight the CEEC’s areas of concern. The Estonian...

20. jaanuarist kuni 16. veebruarini eksponeeritakse Marseille's kuulsas Le Corbusier' projekteeritud hoones Cité Radieuse KOKO arhitektide koostatud näitust "Conversion in Contemporary Estonian Architecture". Näitus toimub 2020. aasta sügisel alanud tsükli „Living the Modernist City“ raames ning leiab aset koostöös agentuuriga l'Agence Kolektiv 313 Architecture. Reedel, 22. jaanuaril avatakse Pariisis asuvas...

20. jaanuaril avaldas Eesti Rahvusraamatukogu oma Facebooki lehel ülaltoodud vahva foto ja teate, et täpselt 100 aastat tagasi toimus Tartus Eesti esimene suusavõistlus! “Mõõtu võttis tervelt 10 osalejat, kelle seas olid ka naised. Nemad suusatasid loomulikult seelikutes ning paistsid seega oma elegantsiga silma nagu see daam fotol. Kuna lumerõõmude kestvust...

Saint Mary's guard Leemet Böckler was named the West Coast Conference Freshman of the Week for December 7, after helping the St. Mary's Gaels go 2-0 at home. Böckler had a perfect shooting night against Nicholls in the Gaels' first game of the week going 2-for-2 from 3-point range, as...

Tallinn, Estonia, January 11, 2021 – Estonian company Crystalspace, partnered with the University of Tartu's Tartu Observatory and Krakul, has been selected by Maxar Technologies, a trusted partner and innovator in Earth Intelligence and Space Infrastructure, to build two cameras that will act as a stereo pair to monitor the...

Legislation signed into law at the end of 2020 included several items relevant to the Baltic countries and the broader region. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (NDAA) and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (FY21 Omnibus) had provisions for funding and policy that support Baltic and European...

Head uut aastat lovers of kitties aka kiisud! If you haven't yet visited the websites of animal shelters in Estonia, I suggest you do. (Web addresses listed at the end.) The stories, names and descriptions of the cats (much more numerous than dogs), waiting to find new homes, penned by dedicated vaba/tahtlikud (volunteers)...

The National Library of Estonia is holding an exhibition of textbooks used for studying in the 1600s, 1700s and 1800s, which are on display for the first time The oldest textbook is from the year 1515 and additionally, studying tools used during that time can also be viewed. The "ABC...