US Vice President Joe Biden has said the United States is ready to raise its military presence in the Baltics amid Russian aggression in Crimea. Biden told Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the president of Estonia, in Warsaw, Poland on 18 March that in addition to the six American F-15 aircraft in Lithuania that were deployed on 6 March, […]
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Estonian-born, New York-based artist Jaanika Peerna has had her work exhibited in Italy for the first time. For the exhibition in Ravenna, Peerna transformed the three large gallery spaces into an all-encompassing site-specific installation using large-scale graphite drawings on mylar and video projections. The theme of the exhibition is “advances and retreats” (“avanzare e arretrare”
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In response to the Russian aggression in Crimea, US President Barack Obama spoke with his counterparts in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, reaffirming the American commitment to defend the Baltic states under the NATO collective defence article. In a conference call on 8 March between Obama and Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Latvian leader Andris Berzins
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The US military has increased its presence in the Baltics in response to the crisis in Ukraine, having deployed jets now in Britain – six F-15 fighters and one KC-135 re-fueler – to Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania. The US already has four F-15s in Lithuania as part of NATO’s Baltic air policing rotation –
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The Estonian-founded, Boston-based, software developer ZeroTurnaround has raised USD6 million in venture debt funding. USD3 million of it comes from the California-based Western Technology Investment, which was previously a backer of Google and Facebook. Two month ago, ZeroTurnaround raised USD3 million in equity from the Boston-based investment branch Bain Capital Ventures. ZeroTurnaround was founded in
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Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, on his visit to Japan this week, will attend the FINEST startup event in Tokyo on 6 March, where aspiring Japanese startups can pitch their ideas to arguably one of the most startup-friendly presidents in the world. FINEST stands for Estonian and Finnish startup scenes and is commonly organised by
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Under our “Global Estonians” feature we talk to diverse people in different cities, countries, continents. Anna-Liisa Sutt is a senior speech pathologist at the Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane, Australia. Anna-Liisa, what made you leave Estonia and how did you end up in Australia? New Year’s Eve 1998 my dad received a letter from Australia. The
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Eesti Laul (“The Song of Estonia”), the national selection process in Estonia for the Eurovision Song Contest 2014, is underway. As most of EstonianWorld’s readers live outside of Estonia and might not have had a chance to follow the national broadcasting channels, we bring you all the competing songs from the semi finals – use your own judgment on
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Cognuse, an Estonian startup that develops and distributes new evaluation and recovery solutions for brain injury patients, has been accepted to the DreamIt Health business accelerator in Baltimore, USA. Altogether, 120 companies applied for the DreamIt Health business acceleration programme, and only nine of them were shortlisted and accepted. “With the help of DreamIt Health
Expat communities celebrated Estonian Independence Day all around the world. We bring you a selection of pictures of the celebrations from London, New York, Chicago, Toronto and Sydney. London (at Westminster Cathedral Hall) New York (at New York Estonian House) Chicago (at Chicago Estonian House) Toronto (at Toronto Estonian House)
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