ERR - Statistics Estonia's head analyst Siim Krusell said that the 2012 statistics yearbook, released last week, covers many figures of different importance, but population change is probably the most highlighted.
Krusell said on the Statistics Estonia blog today that population figures were something to be joyful about in 2009 and 2010, with births outstripping deaths in 2010 for the first time in 20 years. But that trend reversed in 2011, and worsened last year, as the difference between births and deaths grew by more than twofold to 1,500.

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Published: September 20 2013

ERR - Although July 2013 has gone into the books without any earth-shaking events, this week marks the 20th anniversary of the culmination of a crisis that seems unthinkable today.
Back then, coup and secession - now concepts seemingly confined to North Africa - didn't seem outside the realm of possibility in an era when Estonia, in the words of journalist Ainar Ruussaar, was "free but not finished."

"It's mystifying, the luck that Estonia has had," Ruussaar said on the July 22 edition of Pressiklubi, a show he hosts on Kuku Raadio. "Just consider that in July a group of armed men were not obeying orders from the central government."

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Published: September 20 2013

Toms River-based home builder Arvo Prima of Prima Builders recently was honored as Builder of the Year at this year’s Atlantic Builder’s Convention Annual Industry Awards, presented by the New Jersey Builder’s Association.
The prestigious award is given to the individual who symbolizes a model homebuilder and positively represents the building industry and the New Jersey Builder’s Association.

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Published: September 20 2013

ERR - A study coordinated by the London School of Economics and Political Science found that 41 percent of Estonia's children come into contact with Internet risks, the highest percentage in Europe.
University of Tartu Media Studies Professor Veronika Kalmus told uudised.err.ee on Wednesday that children in eastern and northern Europe use the Internet more widely and thus their chances to stumble on risks are greater.

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Published: August 02 2013

ERR - The Estonian Ministry of the Environment has passed along to Parliament and technical agencies an environmental impact assessment for a depository for radioactive waste that Russia is planning just across the border in Leningrad oblast.

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Published: August 02 2013

After Alan Ago Koerv’s article appeared in the VES #22, May 30, 2013 paper, asking for other variations of translation of the “Kas siis selle maa keel....”.  The VES has received some additional translations.

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Published: August 02 2013

 Miami has a large professional diplomatic corps funded by nations from around the globe, dozen of smaller nations get their diplomatic feet on the ground by serving their nations with honorary consuls.

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Published: August 02 2013

There is often talk of a “global Estonia” since Estonians live all over the world possibly a couple of hundred thousand Estonians live now outside of Estonia.  Estonian Culture Minister Rein Lang said at the National Congress in SF that we live in a “global village”, he emphasized that this is a “networking world” where it is possible to keep in constant contact with the whole world only with a click of a finger.  True, but does this also help with personal friendships, does it take the place of conversation? 

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Published: August 02 2013