The Philadelphia organizing committee is pictured from left to right: Laila Gansert (President, Philadelphia Society of Free Letts), Alvar Soosaar (President, Philadelphia Estonian Society and EANC Board member), Linda Rink (EANC Executive Director), Adams M. Berzins (Vice President, Philadelphia Society of Free Letts), Krista Butvydas Bard (Honorary Consul of the Republic of Lithuania), Vytas Maciunas (President of the Lithuanian American Community of Philadelphia).   Photo: Albert For

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Published: July 06 2015

Last weekend, a Viljandi youth group launched a balloon to the stratosphere to conduct a popular science theater experiment "Elephant's Toothpaste."

The experiment was the first of its kind to be conducted in the stratosphere – 30 kilometers above ground – and will be nominated for the Guinness Book of Records.

The first attempt a month ago failed due to a faulty balloon, which burst at 20,000 meters.

The second balloon, launched from the Kikka golf course near Viljandi, succeeded in reaching and conducting the experiment at an altitude of around 30,000 meters.

This was the first time a popular science experiment was achieved in such great heights.

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Published: July 06 2015

Veljo Tormis

The intellectual property team of Law Firm VARUL led by lawyer Mati Kaalep represented the Estonian composer Veljo Tormis in a plagiarism dispute against BBC Worldwide Limited as the creator of the popular Australian crime series Top of the Lake, See-Saw Holdings PTY LTD as the producer of the series, and the Australian composer Mark Bradshaw.

The dispute concerned the soundtrack of the award-winning six-episode Australian TV crime series Top of the Lake, which was jointly produced by the BBC and See-Saw, in which the composer Mark Bradshaw used Veljo Tormis’ folk song arrangement Kust tunnen kodu ("How Can I Recognise My Home?") in the theme tune and episodes of the series without the consent of the composer.

As a result of the international dispute, which lasted over a year, the parties reached an extrajudicial agreement according to which Tormis will be included among royalty recipients and the composer’s name will be added to the credits of future copies of the series.

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Published: July 06 2015

According to a survey commissioned by the Estonian Government Office and conducted by a professional market research company TNS Emor, 32 percent of Estonian residents would agree to admit refugees in the country.

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Published: July 06 2015

Liviko is pleased to announce that the legendary Estonian Liqueur Vana Tallinn is now also available in USA.

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Published: July 06 2015

Tramlines 1 and 3 have been stopped for the month in Tallinn and since lines 2 and 4 were already out of commission for repairs, the capital will not see another tram on its streets before the end of the month.

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Published: July 06 2015

Alberta Estonian Heritage Society’s third and current president, Ave Peetri, with the second ex-president Bob Kingsep at a Board meeting in Calgary, 2013. Photo: Helgi Leesment 

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Published: June 29 2015

In a statement issued on June 19, 2015 by the US Ambassador Daniel Brooks Baer to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the United States clearly asks Russia to free the abducted Estonian internal security service agent Eston Kohver.

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Published: June 29 2015