Poet Kristiina Ehin and her husband, the musician Silver Sepp, will tour California this autumn to launch her new book of short stories entitled Walker on Water, published by Unnamed Press. More information about the book: http://unnamedpress.com/books/book/13.

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Published: September 22 2014

Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet said the captured counterintelligence official Eston Kohver's decision to waive hired lawyers means that objective information and Estonia's reactions to developments will no longer reach Kohver until a consul is again allowed to meet him.

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Published: September 22 2014

The University of Tartu rose and the Tallinn University of Technology fell in the latest QS World University Rankings.

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Published: September 22 2014

On August 23rd over a thousand people filled Chicago’s City Hall Plaza in anticipation of replicating the 400-mile long human chain that has become known as the Baltic Way and to remember the secret Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

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Published: September 09 2014

The Estonian Police and Border Guard have released video showing a group of Estonian and Russian border guards doing a walkthrough shortly after the September 5 incident in which Estonian security police office Eston Kohver was abducted.

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Published: September 16 2014

August 23 marked the 75th anniversary of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which divided Europe and helped start the Second World War. The first commemoration of Black Ribbon Day to be held in the U.S. Capitol took place on August 23, with the assistance of Congressman John Shimkus (R-Ill.), the Joint Baltic American National Committee (JBANC), and the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

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Published: September 02 2014

September 1, 2014
The President
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President,

Estonian Americans applaud your upcoming visit to Estonia and hope that it signifies not only symbolic, but increased tangible U.S. support to the Baltic countries, Poland, and of course, Ukraine.

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Published: September 09 2014

The city of Tallinn installed 14 signs on September 8, indicating that it is permitted to drink in public around the Parliament and the presidential palace while open containers are banned in the rest of the city.

The grudge match with the national government has spawned lively social media commentary and criticism from neighborhood groups.

Eyebrows have been raised by the fact that the signs are in the precise shade of yellow and blue used by the ruling party, the Reform Party.

The Center Party, which has a majority on Tallinn City Council, was critical of Parliament lifting the open container ban, which came into effect on July 1, and said it wanted the capital to be "more Nordic."

So it re-banned public drinking. But planners drew two areas in which people could still drink any strength of alcohol in public.

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Published: September 16 2014