The Estonian American National Council (EANC) is tracking and helping to raise the profile of a number of issues in the 117th Congress that are of interest to the Estonian American community. 

 

This is the second article in a series spotlighting current high-profile issues. 

 

We hope to give our constituents useful background information and a better understanding of the relationship of each issue to Estonia and to broader regional security. 

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Published: July 02 2021

Tiit Madisson.  Photo Kristjan Järv

 

It was with great sadness I learned that one of the most courageous Estonian freedom fighters Tiit Madisson had died on June 21. He left the Earth on the longest day of the year, Summer Solstice.

It was even more disturbing that the Estonian media or government did not feel the need to issue any statement regarding this in English for the Estonian diaspora.

 

Typically ERR (Eesti Rahvusringhääling) publishes articles in both languages about important events.

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Published: July 03 2021

Kaljulaid Appointed First UN Global Advocate for Women and Children

President Kersti Kaljulaid was appointed the first Global Advocate of the United Nations Secretary-General for Every Woman Every Child on June 27.

 

The appointment will last for two years.

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Published: July 02 2021

From Left: JBANC Managing Director Karl Altau, Vilis Sīmanis (JBANC intern), Grants Blumbergs (JBANC intern), Lithuanian ambassador Audra Plepytė, Estonian ambassador Kristjan Prikk, Latvian ambassador Māris Selga.

 

On Monday, June 14th, the ambassadors of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to the United States met at the Lithuanian Embassy in Washington DC for a virtual discussion on “The Day of Mourning and Hope – The Living Memory of Soviet Deportees and Displaced Persons of the Baltic States.”

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Published: June 26 2021

Korp! Vironia USA welcomes the Consulate of Estonia in San Francisco, Consul General Ann Hänni and Consul Kairi Pirik-Vatunen, with the Enterprise Estonia Investor Consultant of the USA, Maris Prii, to its post-Covid opening Aiapidu and Planning Meeting in Orinda, CA at the Otsmaa residence.  Discussions were also held on how to better serve the Estonian Community on the West Coast through cooperative efforts.     Photo by Vaido Vald

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Published: June 26 2021

116-Year-Old June Heat Record Broken

A June temperature record, which had stood for over a century, was broken twice in Estonia on Victory Day, Wednesday, June 23. 34.1°C was recorded in Kunda, breaking the previous 34.0°C record high for the month from June 18, 1905 in Tartu.

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Published: June 26 2021

JUNE 14, 2021

STATEMENTS AND RELEASES

President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. met today with Prime Minister Kaja Kallas of Estonia, President Egils Levits of Latvia, and President Gitanas Nauseda of Lithuania on the margins of the NATO Summit in Brussels.

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Published: June 20 2021

Värska June 1941 deportations 80th anniversary commemoration. Photo: Hans Vega Lehepuu / ERR

 

Events commemorating the 80th anniversary of the June 14, 1941 Soviet deportation of Estonians took place nationwide on June 14th.

An estimated 10,205 Estonians were deported without trial and on a purely arbitrary basis, including children, women and the elderly, deep into Soviet territory, meaning primarily the Siberian Gulag system and via the trademark rail wagons, rolling stock designed for carrying livestock rather than human beings.

Similar repressions were carried out concurrently in Latvia and Lithuania.

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Published: June 20 2021