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Prominent Ukrainian leader Andriy Parubiy shot dead in Lviv
The Age
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August 30, 2025
Loading Poroshenko, who lost office to Zelensky in 2019, said Parubiy had been instrumental in government in modernising the army so it could go to the front with volunteer battalions in 2014 when Russian forces moved into the Donbas region in...
Gallery: Ukraine's Independence Day marked with a procession in Tallinn
ERR
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August 24, 2025
Ukrainians in Tallinn marked their country's Independence Day with a procession. When it comes to peace negotiations and security guarantees, Ukrainians living in Estonia are not holding out much hope. Ukraine's Independence Day brought a few...
Estonia Moves To Strengthen Business Diplomacy For Export Growth
MENAFN
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August 22, 2025
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 22. The Estonian government put their heads together today to cook up new measures aimed at bolstering business diplomacy, with the goal of spreading their wings in export markets and giving the...
Tallinn to reduce investments in new budget strategy
ERR
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August 21, 2025
According to Tallinn's four-year budget strategy, the city will spend less on investments; however, major street construction projects, the purchase of new trams, trolleybuses and buses, the development of new tramlines and the construction of new...
Retired pastor goes on a mission
Tribune Chronicle - Ohio
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Estonia is not a familiar country or destination for most folks in the United States. I had the opportunity to visit it for the fourth time this past summer when my husband Russell and I helped at Christian Camp Gideon, which is located one and a...
Ukraine's Independence Day marked with a procession in Tallinn
ERR
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August 24, 2025
Ukrainians in Tallinn marked their country's Independence Day with a procession. When it comes to peace negotiations and security guarantees, Ukrainians living in Estonia are not holding out much hope. Ukraine's Independence Day brought a few...
Estonian “zombie folk” duo Puuluup to tour in the US
Estonian World
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August 21, 2025
The Estonian “zombie folk” duo, as it calls itself, Puuluup, is returning to the US and touring the country in September and October 2025. “What do you get when you mix a pinch of surrealism, a bit of modern folklore, a heaping helping of talharpa...
How Estonians are managing the threat of a Russian invasion
Deutsche Welle
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August 24, 2025
The Home Cafe Days, or Kodukohvikute paevad in Estonian, are the summer highlight on the island of Hiiumaa. Every August, the residents of Estonia's second-largest Baltic Sea island open up their homes for three days and offer up home-baked cakes,...
Estonia’s remote islands may be Europe’s best-kept travel secret. Here’s why
Euronews
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August 21, 2025
On a crisp morning in late June 2021, Meelis Kitsing, and her then eight-year-old daughter cycled along a sandy path on Ruhnu, one of Estonia’s most remote islands. As they reach the shore, with the sea a sheet of shimmering silver, her daughter...
Latest attacks on Ukraine condemned by the Greens
Brussels Morning
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August 30, 2025
The European Green Party has called for the European Union to respond urgently to the ongoing Russian attacks on Ukraine with more sanctions, and the acceleration of negotiations for Ukraine’s integration into the EU. Vula Tsetsi, Co-chair of the...
One in three senior citizens in Estonia has experienced abuse
ERR
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August 23, 2025
Violence against senior citizens is a widespread problem in Estonia: one in three has faced physical, psychological or other forms of abuse, according to one report. A 2023 report commissioned by the Ministry of Social Affairs, "Older People in...
‘Remember. 23 August’ International Public Education Campaign Honours the Victims of Totalitarian Regimes
Hungarian Conservative
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August 23, 2025
The following is a press release kindly provided to us by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (ENRS). On 23 August, we observe the European Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Totalitarian Regimes, established by the European...
Young people neither in employment nor in education: Which European countries are worst affected?
Euronews
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August 23, 2025
Young people are key drivers of social and economic change. They are the human capital of every country. Yet, in Europe, many young people are ‘neither in employment nor in education or training’ (NEET). In 2024, 11% of people aged 15 to 29 in the...
Tallinn Fringe Festival gets underway with events throughout the city
ERR
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August 18, 2025
On Monday, August 18, the Tallinn Fringe Festival gets underway in the Estonian capital. The festival features a program packed with theater, stand-up comedy, music, circus, and dance performances and runs until September 18. The festival is...
10 European countries where international students can work while studying in 2025
Business Day
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August 30, 2025
For many international students, Europe remains one of the most attractive destinations for higher education, cultural exchange, and part-time work. Earnings from student jobs often help cover living expenses while offering valuable work...
Diaspora Estonians increasingly drawn to higher education in homeland
ERR
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August 22, 2025
While international student numbers still haven't recovered to pre-pandemic levels, Estonian universities report growing interest among diaspora students in earning their degrees at home — and education officials have taken note. Estonian-American...
President Karis: Estonia is founded on freedom, education, and culture
The Baltic Times
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Dear people of Estonia! This summer’s warmth radiates from the Song and Dance Festival. Let us tend constantly to its flame and colours within us. They give us something to lean upon and share with others, even in bleaker times. At the Song...
Latvian and Estonian Presidents take to two wheels
LSM
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August 22, 2025
On August 22nd, Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs and President of Estonia Alar Karis went on a joint bicycle ride, celebrating the 500th anniversary of the first book in Latvian and Estonian. “We are very close peoples, both historically and...
Tartu Academic Male Choir performs in Salisbury
WBOC 16 - Maryland
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SALISBURY, Md. - The Tartu Academic Male Choir performed selections of music in downtown Salisbury on Monday afternoon. Tartu, Estonia is one of Salisbury's three sister cities across the globe. The performance took place at 1 p.m. on Friendship...
Immigration to the UK: legal and illegal
Madhyamam
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August 18, 2025
Immigration is a contentious political issue in the UK. Like most countries the United Kingdom has always had immigration and always shall. There has always been some opposition to immigration. There was no non-white immigration on any serious...