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An Italian-run bar in Tartu breathing life into once sleepy neighbourhood

Craig Nash / March 18, 2018

Simone Cassano, an Italian from the Puglia region, opened a bar in the Karlova area of Tartu, the second-biggest town in Estonia, where Estonians stop “being Estonians” – they actually talk! When Simone Cassano moved to Estonia to start a family with his girlfriend, he traded the year-round warmth and picturesque Adriatic coastlines of his […]

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University of Tartu’s computer science gets international recognition

Sten Hankewitz / November 1, 2017

The University of Tartu is one of the two Central and Eastern European universities to enter the Times Higher Education Rankings in computer science, having been ranked among the top 250 universities in the world. The British journal, the Times Higher Education, has compiled rankings that are considered the most reputable and influential in the

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Tartu to host the biggest business festival in the Baltics

Estonian World / October 27, 2017

The southern Estonian town of Tartu will host the international business festival, sTARTUp Day, that is to bring together over 100 keynote speakers and thousands of guests. While most of the startup community in Estonia is operating in the country’s capital, Tallinn, the scene in the second largest town, Tartu, is bubbling with fresh energy

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Annelinn, Tartu. Old family photo albums mostly have pictures of birthdays, weddings and funerals. People are stiff, looking into the camera. Everyday domestic life is a rare find. My photo stack is pretty much the opposite. So here’s one family photo as it’s supposed to be.

Pictures: Eesti home through the eyes of photographer Tõnu Runnel

Tõnu Runnel / June 6, 2017

Thousands of Estonians of the worldwide diaspora are flocking towards their tiny home between the Baltic Sea and Lake Peipus every summer. More locally, those living in the cities and towns move to villages and summer houses – almost like a great seasonal migration between the summer and winter pastures. Estonia lies so far north that

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Veski, Tartu. When sunlight is veiled with fog, shadows disappear. Surfaces appear to be clearer and colors can stand out in their pure form. Only if they are close enough, of course.

Pictures: Eesti mist through the eyes of photographer Tõnu Runnel

Tõnu Runnel / April 25, 2017

The fog cuts the sight short – and substitutes it with imagination. This way, mist expands the space around us, forces our minds to construct objects and narratives beyond the milky and soft, opaque air. Sometimes, the rain and tusk do the job as well. Estonia has a fair share of foggy, rainy and grey weather,

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Pictures: Eesti noir through the eyes of photographer Tõnu Runnel

Tõnu Runnel / February 6, 2017

The feeling that the day is ours, whereas the darkness of the night belongs to someone else. We are strangers in those realms. Yet the lack of light is almost constant in the late autumn and early winter for those confined to the office space during the short hours of daylight. Here’s a set of

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The Estonian National Museum, making people proud

Helen Wright and Silver Tambur / January 24, 2017

The state-of-the-art Estonian National Museum, built on a former runway, was designed to represent the country’s emerging history. In the last 26 years, Estonia has undertaken many huge projects – completed a massive national library and built new large premises for universities and a splendid museum of modern art. The latest assignment – the Estonian

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Indian tribeswoman Margaret Lyngdoh researches negative stereotypes in Tartu

Marii Kangur / January 18, 2017

Margaret Lyngdoh, originally from the Khasi tribe in India, now works as a junior research fellow in folkloristics at the University of Tartu – and studies the supernatural traditions and rituals of her community. This article is published in collaboration with Research in Estonia and Study in Estonia. The Khasis are one of the multiple ethnic communities in

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Tartu Town Hall Square. This laid-back classicist old town is where my Tartu office lies. Nothing beats the foggy weather during the blue hours of short late autumn days. It’s soft, sweet and relaxing for some – and, yes, appallingly morbid for others.

Pictures: Eesti blues through the eyes of photographer Tõnu Runnel

Tõnu Runnel / January 17, 2017

Estonians cherish their beautiful summer, long sunny days and short fairy-tale nights. In return, most of us are inversely aching about the rest of the year – the dim, wet and somber days of fog and darkness. Then again, the bad weather is as beautiful as those sunny summer days if you only care to

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The developing IT-industry invites talents to stay in Tartu

Marii Kangur / December 29, 2016

Entrepreneurs and former master’s students, Carlos Paniagua from Guatemala and Chris Willmore from California, chose to settle in Tartu, the second largest town in Estonia. This article is published in collaboration with Research in Estonia and Study in Estonia. Both Paniagua and Willmore got their software engineering master’s degrees from the Institute of Computer Science, the University of

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