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Life in Tokyo: Estonian sumo wrestler Baruto brings a smile to everyone’s face

By Liisa Berezkin / September 4, 2012 March 2, 2017 / 6 minutes of reading

Liisa Berezkin, having been used to Estonian and Finnish metal culture and festivals, discovers a massive industry of performance-based androgynous rock in Tokyo and learns that for Japanese ears, “Terviseks” sounds like “Terebi (TV) sex”. She cannot escape the fans of Baruto either. Under the shadow of Japan’s massive industry of performance-based androgynous …

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Gender in Estonia: Observations from a foreign feminist

By Jeana Jorgensen / August 31, 2012 April 14, 2016 / 6 minutes of reading

I came to Estonia as a visiting PhD student, a folklorist, meaning that I was primarily interested in tales and traditions. However, I’m also a feminist and a gender studies scholar, so I couldn’t help but notice some of the gender dynamics around me. One of the first things that …

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Kristi Roosmaa: “Life is full of inspirations!” Interview with New York-based musical singer & actress

By Silver Tambur / August 24, 2012 April 11, 2014 / 13 minutes of reading

Kristi Roosmaa is an actress and singer of Estonian origin and is the first Estonian musical theatre singer to perform as a soloist at the world renowned Carnegie Hall in New York City. Kristi’s first performance, at the age of 4, paved the way for her career in the arts. …

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Ideas for an ideal London city break

By Liis Rosenberg / August 7, 2012 April 11, 2014 / 8 minutes of reading

While ago I had my family and family friends coming over to visit me and my boyfriend in London. So not to be greedy I decided to share of what we did on these two and a half days, to give ideas to others of how to plan their city break in London. For the background information, my family have visited …

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Edward Lucas: “Estonia is now an insider, not an outsider anymore.” Interview with The Economist’s senior editor

By Silver Tambur / July 26, 2012 December 4, 2014 / 8 minutes of reading

Edward Lucas is the International Editor of The Economist, the London based global weekly news magazine, and also oversees the paper’s political coverage of Central and Eastern Europe. He has been covering the region of Europe since 1986, and was the Economist’s Moscow bureau chief from 1998-2002. Lucas has been visiting Estonia …

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Hey Liis, how’s Santiago?

By Liis Peetermann / July 26, 2012 October 21, 2012 / 3 minutes of reading

Last winter designer and start-up entrepreneur Liis Peetermann spent 6 months in Chilean capital Santiago, taking part of Start-Up Chile program, which is an initiative of the Chilean Government to attract foreign entrepreneurial talent into their country. This was Liis’s first impression of Santiago at the time: It’s warm. +30C during the day, …

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How our age defines where we like to live: 25 – New York, 35 – London, 45 – Zürich

By Jürgen Kaljuvee / July 5, 2012 April 28, 2014 / 5 minutes of reading

From time to time a magazine or a think tank publishes a study or survey, comparing the cost of living for different cities. In recent years, Zürich has come up on the number one spot invariably, and as more expensive than for example London or New York. Consequently, I have …

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