“Estonia’s Best Kept Secret” is a road-trip story about a song, a country and a beautiful grand piano – and the winner of the third prize at EstDocs 2013, the annual Estonian documentary film festival and competition in Toronto. A few years ago, the Canadian couple, Mike Dell and Kimberly Bagayawa, became acquainted with Estonia – by virtue of Katre Viilvere, […]
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Like bees flying back to their hive, a large number of global Estonians will be returning to Estonia on the occasion of the 26th National Song and Dance Festival held in Tallinn from 4-6 July. One of the most global of Estonians, folksinger Reet Hendrikson, will be there in memory only, at a musical tribute
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In “Pitch In”, the Silicon Valley-based Estonian journalist, Ede Schank Tamkivi, is trying to figure out how great ideas are being pitched in this part of the world. If you have a great idea, but do not have much confidence in terms of public speaking, can this trait be developed? What are the basic rules
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In response to the Ukraine crisis, NATO has opened its second Baltic air base in Estonia; the base forms a part of NATO’s increased regional air policing mission. On 30 April, four Danish fighter jets arrived at the Ämari air base. The Royal Danish Air Force F-16 jets will patrol the skies of Estonia, Latvia
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This is how Victor Guzun, the Moldovan ambassador in Tallinn, has pictured his country of residence in last three years. Over 130 pictures depict seasonal scenery and life in Estonia.
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To mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Estonian World is publishing a short film called “Best Friends Forever” by an Estonian journalist Anna Gavronski. Remembering the Holocaust The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January, is a worldwide memorial day for the victims of the Holocaust, the genocide that resulted in the annihilation of six million Jews, two
An Irish band gets inspired by an “Estonian diesel man” who helped them out in a bitter cold winter night in the UK – and dedicates a song to him in return. In a bitter cold winter night, a UK-based Irish band, consisting of brothers Jamie and Edward Connors and Rob Ryan, was travelling by van back
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“Skyscraper”, a song originally written by the Estonian recording artist Kerli Kõiv with Toby Gad and Lindy Robbins in 2011, and in 2013 re-recorded and sung by British singer Sam Bailey, has become the Christmas No. 1 in the United Kingdom. The battle for Christmas number one is traditionally fiercely fought in Britain and the
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Composer Arvo Pärt and conductors Neeme Järvi and Tõnu Kaljuste are among the nominees of the Grammy Awards 2014. Composer Arvo Pärt’s album “Adam’s Lament” has been nominated in the Best Contemporary Classical Composition category. Recorded with Pärt’s active participation in the resonant 13th-century church of St. Nicholas in Tallinn, that surrounds the singing with a
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Estonia will be represented at the EXPO 2015 world fair in Milan by “Gallery of ___”, designed by the Tallinn-based architecture firm Kadarik & Tüür. EXPO is an international exhibition held every five years in different cities around the world and showcases the progress made by the attending countries. Fourteen entries were submitted to the concept,
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