Christmas traditions in Estonia
Christmas time is still the most important holiday celebrated in Estonia. For Estonians, Christmas is a mixture of the traditional, the modern, the secular and […]
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Paul Goble: Five lessons for today from the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
The 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact entails five lessons for the world today, Paul Goble, the American analyst, writer and columnist with expertise on Russia, writes.* Some
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The role of the United States in the restoration of Estonia’s independence
The US policy of not recognising the annexation of the Baltic states formed an international anchor which fostered the hope that justice would one day
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Five most bizarre things ever to happen in Estonian history
Estonia is a country with a long history that is, in large parts, made out of the stuff that histories are usually made out of
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Tuhala Witch’s Well and ancient Estonian mythology
Tuhala Witches’ Well, a karst spring located at the 3,000 years old settlement in Estonia’s Kose Parish, represents an ancient Estonian folk tale. Estonia has experienced
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The day the Soviets invaded Britain to capture an Estonian
The Shetland Islands are the northern-most part of the United Kingdom. A group of islands situated between the Atlantic and the North Sea, they are
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When Putin couldn’t take the truth spoken by Lennart Meri
The late Estonian president, Lennart Meri, once delivered a remarkable address in Hamburg, Germany, that caused the then-deputy mayor of St Petersburg, Vladimir Putin, to
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The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam: An Estonian view
The question of what can become of a society and completely normal people when the said society goes mad, is valid again even in Estonia
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Of potatoes, land and Estonian grandmas
In Estonia, the countryside has always meant a lot more than a rural area where some people prefer to live; the countryside determines identities, the
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Ahto Valter – the first Estonian who sailed around the world
It took nine years of detective work to finish a documentary about Ahto Valter, the first Estonian to sail around the world; this layered story
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