Latvian historian Gatis Krumins discovered detailed accounting reports of the State Bank of the Soviet Union, according to which the main investments to the Baltics went into Soviet military spending, and the Baltic states were rather subsidising other Soviet regions. When the Baltic countries were occupied by the Soviet Union, the people in these countries […]
This seemingly simple question often causes much confusion – when tested on students, we usually get conflicting answers: Estonia is an ancient land where we have lived for millennia, but as a state it is very young, says the professor of cultural history at Tallinn University, Marek Tamm. So what do we know from the
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According to the census, there are 9,614 “other” Finno-Ugric people living in Estonia: Erzyas, Mokshas, Udmurts, Komis, Karelians, Maris, Hungarians, Finns, Ingrians and many others. Overall, there are around 25 million Finno-Ugrians in the world. Still, the number of those who speak Finno-Ugric languages keeps declining, says doctor Natalia Abrosimova of the Tallinn University School
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Alexander Van der Bellen, whose mother was Estonian, has won Austria’s presidential election, preventing Norbert Hofer from becoming the EU’s first far-right head of state. The election on 4 December was a re-run of May’s poll which suffered irregularities in the postal vote. Van der Bellen, who was backed by the Austrian Green Party, also won
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It’s been a long wait – 107 years, to be exact – but Estonia has finally opened its first national museum dedicated to the history, life and traditions of Estonians and other Finno-Ugric peoples. Built on the edge of Tartu on an abandoned Soviet airfield the Estonian National Museum, or Eesti Rahva Muuseum, will open to
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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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Karoli Hindriks, the CEO and founder of the Estonian startup, Jobbatical, writes about her personal not-so-pleasant experiences of growing up in the Soviet-occupied Estonia. This week my native country, nestled in a remote corner of the Earth about 500 miles from Santa’s village, celebrates 25 years since the restoration of its independence. 25 years since
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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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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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A conference that took place in Israel last week marked the 90th anniversary of Jewish cultural autonomy in Estonia; 90 people attended what was the biggest Estonian-arranged conference in the Holy Land. The Estonian ambassador to Israel, Malle Talvet-Mustonen told Estonian World that the conference also marked the 25th anniversary of Estonia regaining independence after
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