News and features about Estonia and Estonians
American Chris Willmore quit his job at Yahoo! and came to live and work in Tartu, the second largest town in Estonia. How and why? I am an American who grew up in sunny California. I studied computer science at the University of California in Berkeley, one of the top-ranked programmes in the world. After graduation, I […]
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Maie Currie was born in Estonia in 1939. Her mother escaped with her to Germany in 1944 and in 1949 they left for the United States. This is Currie’s emotional account how she went back to Soviet-occupied Estonia in 1968 for six days to meet her father who had been taken from her in 1941
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According to a research by a team from a Canadian hospital and an American university, Estonian children and youths are third fittest in the world, or at least among the 50 countries that were included in the study. An international research team, co-led from the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) and the University of
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The Estonian American National Council (EANC) is taking the show on the road. This year’s annual meeting, public programme and awards presentation will take place in San Francisco, California, on 5 November 2016 and will include timely panels and an awards gala. Detailed information and registration is available on the EANC website. But, to whet
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There are some expats who have been living and working in Estonia for a long time – and seen the country’s transition through turbulent times to the more recent developments in joining the club of stable and relatively prosperous states. Estonia, a tech-savvy and ever-globalising country, has lately been busy developing many initiatives to help
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The Estonian state real estate management company has chosen the design “Journey” (“Teekond” in Estonian) as the future memorial to the victims of communism and officers of Estonia. The winner of the design competition was chosen by Riigi Kinnisvara AS (RKAS, the state real estate management agency) in cooperation with the ministry of justice, the
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Despite its small size, Estonia has actually done remarkably well in the history of the Olympics: it ranks number eight in the total medal count and number two in summer Olympics, when calculated per capita. When the 46 athletes who have been selected to represent Estonia in Brazil, gather at the opening ceremony on 6
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The Lakewood Estonian House in New Jersey, United States, is turning 70, which can only mean one thing – time to throw a party. A lot happens in a span of 70 years. Halley’s Comet nearly completes its seven-billion-mile elliptical cruise around the solar system. In the east, the Sun rises over 25,000 times and sets at
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According to the largest ever study of height around the world, Estonian men and women are the third tallest people on Earth. The research, led by scientists from the Imperial College London and using data from most countries in the world, tracked height among young adult men and women between 1914 and 2014. The top four
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So, you arrived in Tallinn a few days ago and you think you’ve done it all. You took a tour, visited the Telliskivi Creative City and spent all of your hard-earned money either on local amber that’s definitely not imported from Lithuania or eating copious amounts of bear meat at the Olde Hansa restaurant in the Old Town. Well, you’re in
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