Members of the Boston Baltic Centennial Planning Committee attended the United Nations Association Global Citizens Gala at the Fairmont Copley Plaza in Boston on June 10th. Representing the Baltic nations at one table were Jim Barrett and Karin (Värnik) Barrett (Co-Chair of the Boston Baltic Centennial Celebration Committee, Estonia), Eric Suuberg (Vice President of the EANC, Estonia) and Inara Suuberg  (President of the Latvian Heritage Foundation), Dr. Elliot Thrasher and Antra Thrasher (Trustee of the Latvian Heritage Foundation), Anne-Reet Ilves Annunziata (Honorary Consul for Estonia), Villu Tari (Past President of the Boston Estonian Society) and (not pictured) Lithuanian Honorary Consul Thorsteinn and Ransy Gislason.

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Published: June 30 2017

Photo by Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VoC) held its tenth annual Roll Call of Nations on June 9th. The event each year commemorates the more than 100 million victims of communism worldwide and those still living under totalitarian regimes.

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Published: June 30 2017

ESTONIAN MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR

June 9, 2017

The immigration quota, which regulates temporary residence permits for enterprise and employmentbased immigration from third countries to Estonia, will already be reached in the summer this year.

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Published: June 30 2017

Top row – Toni Mannik, Martha Mannik, Helisa Uzoza with the EMT personnel. Bottom row – Luisa Uzoza, Annika Simonson, Aiki Simonson, Annika Perry, Aili Simonson, Lisa Bucholz. Photo taken by Liisa-Mai Karuks

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Published: June 30 2017

Ambassador Fried giving well-received keynote address at 2017 JBANC Conference.

JBANC Baltic Conference, Washington DC, May 20, 2017

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Published: June 14 2017

America’s NATO Problem: We’ve Forgotten Why We’re a Member, Jeffrey Rathke, Center for Strategic & International Studies (csis.org), May 24, 2017

What Does Russia Want? Commentary by Kadri Liik, European Council on Foreign Relations (ecfr.eu),  May 26, 2017

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Published: June 14 2017

Staunton, June 3 – Some years ago, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who later became president of Estonia, suggested that “if the Russians were to come back to Estonia again, they would not be constrained by communism.” That is, they would pursue an even more repressive Russian nationalist agenda there than had the Soviet Union during the occupation.

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Published: June 14 2017

Estonian Institute has brought out a new publication, “Estonian nature”, the text of which is written by Kristjan Piirimäe.

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Published: June 14 2017