A monument marking the boundary where Saaremaa islanders begin to pronounce the unique Estonian vowel "Õ" as "Ö" was unveiled this past week.

The challenge of having to cut through bureaucratic red tape was worth it, since the islanders now have a new attraction that is both deeply meaningful and unique.

More on the opening of the monument here.   

Photo by Margus Muld/ERR

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Published: December 06 2020

Estonian Youth Spoke Up on Global Diaspora Day

On November 28, Estonian Global Diaspora Day was celebrated with a live internet broadcast organised by Vabamu, the Museum of Occupations and Freedom in Tallinn.

Estonian Diaspora Day is celebrated as a moving holiday each year on the last Saturday of November.

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Published: December 06 2020

Elmar Sepp was born on the island of Saaremaa in a free and independent Estonia in 1925.

The fifth of six children of Hindrik, a merchant marine, and Mari, a farmer and homemaker.

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Published: November 28 2020

The sauna builder’s grandson has just been granted permission to recover the smoke sauna and restore it in the Rocky Mountains

The more we write about Estonian saunas, the more people write to us about weird and wonderful Estonian saunas for us to cover, writes Adam Rang in Estonian Saunas Magazine at medium.com .

One in particular stood out recently. It’s a Seto smoke sauna.

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Published: November 28 2020

As we celebrate International Education Week and Global Entrepreneurship Week, we'd like to introduce to  you an exchange alumni and entrepreneur, Triin!

She studied in the U.S. in 2015 in the Digital Communication Network program.

While in the U.S., Triin wanted to understand how to utilize digital tools and social media platforms most effectively to support technology companies in engaging with their audiences and distributing messages at scale.

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Published: November 28 2020

New Ministers of Education and Public Administration

Minister of Public Administration Jaak Aab will become the new Minister of Education replacing Mailis Reps who stepped down last week.

Anneli Ott, who led the Riigikogu's European Union Affairs Committee, will be appointed the new Minister of Public Administration.

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Published: November 28 2020

"Light Stream", the winning entry in the Ülemiste rail terminal design competition.  Source: Zaha Hadid Architects and Esplan OÜ

The time-frame for the planned high speed Rail Baltic terminal in Tallinn has been announced, with work starting next year and the goal of completion by the end of 2025, writes ERR News.

Rail Baltic, the Estonian arm of the line planned to link all three Baltic States with Warsaw, Poland, and through it the rest of "continental" Europe, made the announcement on November 18, that work on the terminal, in Tallinn's Ülemiste district, would be starting in 2021.

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Published: November 22 2020

It is just amazing how little it takes to give desperate people a little happiness. 

In Estonia today, there are still many women and children whose only aim in life is to survive for another day. 

Fantasy dreams consist of dolls, french fries, toys, enough food to eat, warm clothing or winter boots. 

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Published: November 22 2020