Estonian history

Estonian MEP Tunne Kelam to be awarded the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom

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The Estonian member of the European Parliament, Tunne Kelam, is to be awarded the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation will award the Medal of Freedom, alongside with Kelam, also to the former president of Lithuania, Valdas Adamkus, and the Latvian MEP and author, […]

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The summer of 1988 witnessed a series of concerts and joint singing in Estonia, soon to turn into a large-scale popular movement, and later called the Singing Revolution.

30 years since the most important Singing Revolution concert

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On 11 September 1988, an estimated 300,000 people gathered at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds to listen speeches by the Estonian independence movement activists and sing songs. On 11 September 1988, the Song Festival Grounds hosted arguably the largest mass gathering the Estonian capital had ever seen, when an estimated 300,000 people from across the

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Review: “Juured”, an Estonian documentary about women who are not ashamed of their wounds

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Six Estonian female film directors share their intimate experiences and show us that facing pain is an act of freedom. Is it a coincidence that the words “juuksed” (hair) and “juured” (roots) are so assonant in Estonian? Perhaps they share more than a vague sound. Almost all cultures consider hair as a symbol of an

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Novelist: Estonians don’t like Russians because the Soviet occupation denied them choices

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Andrey Ivanov, an ethnic Russian Estonian novelist, says in a new and well-regarded novel, “A Handful of Dust,” that the reason for Estonians not liking Russians is that Russians, as part of the Soviet occupation, denied Estonians their right to make choices. In the novel, the Russian protagonist returns to Tallinn after seven years in

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“Seltsimees Laps” – not only a movie about Stalinist tyranny, but also on Estonian modesty

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The Tallinn-based Italian expat, Milena Spigaglia, shares her thoughts on the new Estonian movie about the Stalinist tyranny, “Seltsimees Laps” (“The Little Comrade”). When I was a child, I asked my mother – who passed away a few years ago and simply loved to take care of her garden – if plants understood that we

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