EANC was represented by (from right):  President Marju Rink-Abel; Washington, DC Director Karin Shuey; and board member Maia Linask.Photo courtesy of JBANC.

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Published: September 03 2016

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will visit Riga on Aug. 23, where he will meet with presidents Dalia Grybauskaitė of Lithuania, Raimonds Vējonis of Latvia, and Toomas Hendrik Ilves of Estonia.

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Published: August 21 2016

Many documents and photographs belonging to Estonians are included in the exhibition. Foto: Siiri Lind

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Published: August 27 2016

SUL’s Assistant Curator for Estonian and Baltic Studies, Liisi Esse, defended her doctoral thesis on August 24th, at the University of Tartu, Estonia.

Liisi’s thesis is titled “Estonian soldiers in the First World War: the war experience and its postwar meaning.” It is the first attempt to comprehensively explore and analyze the collective component of the war experiences of Estonian soldiers who served in the Russian Army during WWI, and the postwar, often long-lasting traces of these experiences. Below is a brief summary of her thesis.

The 100th anniversary from the outbreak of the First World War (WWI) has increased the number of academic studies dedicated to the war both in Western Europe as well as in Estonia and elsewhere in Eastern Europe, where it was heretofore rather known as the “forgotten war.”

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Published: September 03 2016

According to the Ministry of the Interior, the number of stateless permanent residents of Estonia has decreased by more than 45,000 over the past decade, with 80,754 left early in 2016.

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Published: August 21 2016

Defense and Security Cooperation

NATO Allies:  As NATO allies, the United States, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania remain unwavering in their commitment to mutual defense, including building national resilience in line with the pledge made by all allies at the Warsaw Summit.  Estonia is one of only five NATO allies that meet the NATO benchmark of spending at least two percent of GDP on defense, and the governments of Latvia and Lithuania are increasing defense spending with concrete budget plans to meet this NATO benchmark by 2018.

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Published: September 03 2016

Minister of Culture Indrek Saar (SDE) finds that all those who finish school in Estonia should also be able to pass the citizenship exam. Saar invited the Ministry of the Interior on August 17th to think about how young holders of the alien passport can be motivated to become Estonian citizens.

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Published: August 21 2016

The Republic of Estonia's Border Marker No. 1 was installed in Southeast Estonia, at the meeting point of the Estonian, Latvian and Russian borders on August 2, 2016, with President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and Minister of the Interior Hanno Pevkur present.    Photo by Police and Border Guard Board

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Published: September 03 2016