What a pleasant surprise to witness such an amazing talented young dancer. Alissa Saluri is the daughter of Jessica and Rein Saluri and the granddaughter of Ulle and Peep Saluri.

Alissa was always dancing even before joining her first dancing school at the age of eight.

She took her first hip-hop class at Absolute Dance Center in Monroe.

The following year, in 2012, she joined Bodies in Motion Dance Centre in Sayreville.

During her first year here she was invited by the director to join the dance team, Inertia.

Alissa is training in several different styles of dance such as ballet, lyrical, tap, jazz, hip-hop, musical theater and of course, bollywood.

Since joining the team Alissa has performed at South Amboy Day and volunteers her time performing holiday shows at many nursing homes.

She has also won a few competitions, placing in the top three in her category.

If you ask Alissa what her biggest accomplishment is so far she would say Disney.

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Published: November 25 2014

Estonian National Male Choir.   Photo by Jaan Krivel/ERR

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Published: November 18 2014

Publication of the English-language translation of the“DP Kroonika” (“DP Chronicle”), reported (Oct. 30 English language section) by Enda Mai Michelson Holland, president of the Estonian Archives in the U.S., is welcome news.

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Published: November 25 2014

A study conducted in Vilnius compared Tallinn, Tartu and Riga for the suitability of Ikea expansion, concluding with a win for the Latvian capital.

The Swedish furniture chain announced that it will expand to the next Baltic nation in the next two and a half years time, and is planning stores in all Baltic nations by 2019, Postimees reported.

Ikea's first store in the region opened little over a year ago in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital.

The cost of the next store is estimated at around 150 million dollars (120 million euros). Tallinn and Tartu were considered and dropped as the possible locations for the first opening, due to strong competition and high costs in Tallinn, and small population in Tartu.

However, Tartu may have better prospects for the selection in future, because the relatively low cost of living.

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Published: November 18 2014

Tallinn Old Town.   Photo from Internet

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Published: November 18 2014

Lakewoodi Eesti Kiriku kontorisse hüppas aknast hirv...

LAKEWOOD, NJ –The punchline of the Monday morning (nov. 17, 2104) incident still is largely unknown for parishioners at Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lakewood.

The church's pastor, The Rev. Thomas Vaga, said he still is scratching his head as to how the deer lept through a small window in his office, ran amok, then exited the same window it entered.

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Published: November 25 2014

State-owned airline Estonian Air board member Indrek Randveer said the company wants to open new routes, both in the summer and winter seasons, and is looking towards Milan, Italy, and Germany.

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Published: November 18 2014

Countries neighboring Vladimir Putin are rightfully nervous about current geopolitical affairs. However, countries not sharing a border with Vladimir Putin should be nervous as well, writes Andres Simonson in an online magazine Estonian World. 

I live in the United States and my neighbours are ethnic Russians. Nice folks, and the type of neighbours you’d choose if it weren’t for the old adage that says you can’t. The patriarch, first name Vladimir, is a master pianist and we are often provided with dazzling concertos at no additional cost other than opening our kitchen windows. The matriarch is quick with amiable greetings and general pleasantries. The son, first generation American like me (I was born to political refugees from Estonia), pushes his snow thrower across our sidewalk and driveway in the winter, unsolicited. Appreciatively, afterward I’ll typically push him a stout or porter to help shake the winter chill.

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Published: November 11 2014