A team of Estonian expats set up a radio station in Finland, called Finest FM. In the last ten years, Estonia has experienced a massive exodus of people to a richer and bigger neighbour – it is estimated that 35,000 Estonians now live permanently in Finland, which is culturally and linguistically the closest country to […]
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An Irish band gets inspired by an “Estonian diesel man” who helped them out in a bitter cold winter night in the UK – and dedicates a song to him in return. In a bitter cold winter night, a UK-based Irish band, consisting of brothers Jamie and Edward Connors and Rob Ryan, was travelling by van back
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There’s a new kid on the block – the Estonian tech startup scene. Cloutex, which launched its service in spring 2013, has closed a US$600,000 seed round from United Partners, SmartCap and EstBan business angels. The former Skype Estonia General Manager and angel investor, Tiit Paananen, is also part of the round. Cloutex, set up by Estonian Peeter
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Estonian-founded and Massachusetts-based open engineering platform GrabCAD has passed the 1,000,000 member mark. GrabCAD is an open engineering platform that allows engineers and non-engineers to collaborate and edit 2D and 3D CAD (computer aided design) models online. The company was founded in Estonia in 2009 by two young Estonian mechanical engineers, Hardi Meybaum (CEO) and Indrek Narusk, who
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We have compiled a dozen of the most popular original stories published by EstonianWorld in 2013, in no particular order. Here they are, in case you’ve missed any of them. I Tallinn named one of Top 7 Intelligent Communities in the world Intelligent Community Forum named the world’s Top 7 Intelligent Communities, all with a
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Choosing an Estonian song of the year was never going to be an easy task. The fact that the Estonian music scene is so broad and varied only adds further to this complication. So in order to spare some of the agony (or risk alienating half of our readers), we’ve decided not to opt for
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The prime ministers of Finland and Estonia, Jyri Katainen and Andrus Ansip, have concluded the world’s first known digitally signed intergovernmental agreement focusing on common development of e-services between the two neighbours. While remaining in their respective offices in Helsinki and Tallinn and using ID cards, the prime ministers signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
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“Skyscraper”, a song originally written by the Estonian recording artist Kerli Kõiv with Toby Gad and Lindy Robbins in 2011, and in 2013 re-recorded and sung by British singer Sam Bailey, has become the Christmas No. 1 in the United Kingdom. The battle for Christmas number one is traditionally fiercely fought in Britain and the
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In “Expats corner” we catch up with foreigners who live or have lived in Estonia, to find out what they really think of the country. Adrienne Warren is a Tallinn-based research journalist, working for Warsaw-based portal Eastbook.eu. Adrienne, what brought you to Estonia? I originally came to Estonia for university, to study International Relations at Tallinn Technical
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It has been suggested that in the scenario of a hypothetical Russia’s attack on the Baltic States, it would commence with an attack on Lithuania, not Estonia or Latvia. The Lithuania Tribune recently presented an overview of the possible attack, based on Lithuania’s defence analyst Aleksandras Matonis’ analysis. The original article can be found here. At
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