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Alika Milova represented Estonia with the song “Bridges”, written by her and Dutch songwriter Wouter Hardy, at the 67th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, hosted in Liverpool, the UK, from 9-13 May; she won eighth place in the contest’s final. Milova (20), born into a Russian-speaking family in the Estonian border town Narva, won the […]
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The Estonian foreign ministry holds a virtual forum for Estonians worldwide on 4 May; Estonian World will live broadcast the forum. The Estonian foreign ministry’s fifth virtual forum for Estonians worldwide is held on 4 May at 4:00 PM Estonian time (2:00 PM BST/9 AM EDT). This time, the focus of the discussions is on preserving
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A hundred students and teachers at the Saaremaa Joint Secondary School in Estonia voice a hundred different Estonian words. “Estonian is a beautiful language because it has wonderful words,” the students, teachers and the staff of the school, who prepared the video, said. “Here’s a short video with 100 beautiful Estonian words.” The video was
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The only pre-election public debate in English took place on 28 February at the Club of Different Rooms in Tallinn’s Telliskivi Creative City; the debate, ahead of the Estonian general election on 5 March, was organised by Estonishing Evenings, Telliskivi Creative City and Estonian World and seven major political parties were represented. On 5 March,
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The Estonian capital has seen so much snow in recent days that skiers are now having fun right on the streets of Tallinn’s Old Town. The official BBC Weather account shared a video taken in Tallinn by Colin Higgins that shows a skier speeding in the steep Old Town street called Short Leg. Skiers on
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The Estonian foreign ministry holds a virtual forum for Estonians worldwide on 3 December; Estonian World will live broadcast the forum. The Estonian foreign ministry’s fourth virtual forum for Estonians worldwide is held on 3 December at 4:00 PM Estonian time. The forum is held in Estonian, but there will be simultaneous interpretation into English and
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In an interview conducted by the Living the Classical Life videocast, Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi discusses his musical beginnings, the role and influence of his father, conductor Neeme Järvi, the story of his early meeting with composer Dmitri Shostakovich and the Pärnu Music Festival, which he founded. Paavo Järvi, who celebrated his 60th birthday this
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Estonian conductor, composer and prolific recording artist Kristjan Järvi has more than 60 albums to his credit; in the interview conducted by the Living the Classical Life videocast, Järvi discusses his immersive experiential musical events that foster unity between audience and performers alike, and speaks about his reluctant musical beginnings within the prominent Järvi dynasty,
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Colonel Nicole Aunapu Mann has become the first astronaut with Estonian ancestry to travel to space as the NASA mission commander aboard the SpaceX Dragon that launched on 5 October at 7 PM EEST (12 PM EDT); Estonian World live streams the event. In 2018, NASA, the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, selected nine
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The Open Estonia Foundation is organising the XXV Open Society Forum at Fotografiska Tallinn on 29 September, with the topic, “Two Sides of the Same Coin: Climate Change Meets Migration”, beginning with a discussion between the former Estonian president, Kersti Kaljulaid, and Canadian social anthropologist, professor Mark Nuttall; Estonian World will live stream the forum from 1 PM
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