ERR News - One proposed route of the Rail Baltic project, which would connect Estonia to other Baltic nations and beyond by high-speed trains, would cut one community in Rapla County in half.

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Published: July 27 2013

ERR News - Freshly released figures from the 2011 census show that Estonia is now home to 180 ethnicities, 38 more than a decade ago, during the last count.
Statistics Estonia analyst Anu Tõnurist said on the organization's blog today that while in many countries it is considered a form of discrimination to ask a person's ethnicity, Estonian population censuses since the first one back in 1881 have been asking that question, as people are interested in how the nation's ethnic makeup changes.

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Published: July 27 2013

ERR News - A Russian AN-30B aircraft carried out an observation mission over Estonia on Tuesday, July 16th as part of the Open Skies Treaty.
The aircraft was equipped with a panoramic camera, but all developed film will be done so in the presence of Estonian representatives, the Estonian Defense Forces said in a press release on July 16th.

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Published: July 27 2013

ERR News - A progress report on the statistical benchmarks of Estonia's integration plan finds that the unemployment rate gap between ethnic Estonians and non-Estonians widened last year.

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Published: July 27 2013

Tartu Hanseatic Days July 19 – 21, 2013
Tartu gets back in touch with its roots as a Hanseatic trading city with an upcoming and all-encompassing Medieval festival. Expect the town to fill with people wearing historic costumes, and the Old Town to turn into a gigantic marketplace.

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Published: July 27 2013

The U.S. debut of the Estonian National Ballet on June 28 night at the Palace of Fine Arts was the highlight of the gala that opened Lep-Esto 2013, a four-day celebration of Estonian culture in San Francisco, writes Mary Ellen Hunt in SFGate.com

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Published: July 20 2013

Midsummer eve or suvi/hari – "the peak of summer", also known as jaani/laupäev (St. John's Day Saturday, i.e. the eve before) has always been the perfect time to gather on the küla/kiik (village swing) in Eesti. The swing at the Eesti Vaba/õhu/muuseum (Open Air Museum, www.evm.ee) has this kasutus/juhend or set of instructions posted on its swing by the sea.

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Published: July 20 2013

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June 21, 2013

Officials from the City of Cumberland met with officials from Viljandi, Estonia plus the Estonian Embassy in Washington, DC and the US Embassy in Tallinn, Estonia via Skype exchange on Wednesday, June 19, 2013 to finalize a Memorandum of Cooperation between the two cities that commits each to mutually explore opportunities to raise cross-cultural awareness and seek areas of collaboration that will be beneficial to both citizenry.

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Published: July 20 2013