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More than 20,000 choir singers gathered Sunday to fill the air with positive vibes as Estonians took their minds off a crippling recession in a mass celebration of folk songs.
Arnold Meri, a decorated Red Army veteran charged with genocide for deporting hundreds of his Estonian countrymen to Siberia in 1949, has died. He was 89.
An Estonian court convicted a former top security official of treason Wednesday for passing domestic and NATO secrets to Russia in the Baltic country's biggest espionage scandal since the Cold War.
Estonia says it will end its nearly six-year military mission in Iraq after it failed to agree with the Iraqi government on terms for its troop deployment.
Parliament has approved a law making Estonia the first country to allow voting by mobile phone.
An Estonian man suspected of embezzling money from a U.S.-based program to rebuild Iraq will be extradited to the United States, Estonia said Thursday.
The government of Estonia is temporarily hosting the Web sites of Georgia's central bank and Foreign Ministry to try to protect them from cyber attacks, officials said Tuesday.
Authorities say a skydiver was killed when she walked into a spinning aircraft propeller at an airfield in Estonia.
Barack Obama has found something that eluded him during the primary season — contrast. And, he's basking in it.
Lawmakers in Estonia on Wednesday approved a one-year extension of the Baltic country's small military deployment in Iraq.
Estonia decided Thursday it will not allow a German-Russian consortium to conduct a survey of its exclusive economic zone in the Baltic Sea for a planned underwater gas pipeline.
Young Russians staged raucous protests in Moscow on Wednesday to denounce neighboring Estonia for removing a Soviet war memorial from its capital, and the Estonian ambassador said pro-Kremlin activists tried to attack her as she arrived at a news conference.
A statue of a Red Army Soldier at the heart of deadly riots in Estonia was re-erected at a military cemetery in the capital Monday, overlooking dozens of Russian war graves.
Estonia's Defense Ministry said Monday that it had re-erected a statue of a Red Army soldier at a military cemetery, three days after the monument's removal from the capital provoked rioting by ethnic Russians.
We are now at the penultimate event of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. The second Semi-Final of 19 countries went without a hitch to select last 10 performers who will be added to the other 15 to make up the Final 25 singers on Saturday.
The Moral Defense of Tax Havens. (abridged from a speech by Daniel J. Mitchell, delivered at "Evenings at FEE" in June 2006.) 19 December 2008Tax havens play an important role in the global economy because of tax competition. Globalization has increased the mobility of the two main factors of production: capital and labor.
Baltic Protests and Financial Meltdowns: Part II"The question is in which other post-communist countries may social unrest erupt. After a decade of very high economic growth, they all encounter their first serious recession.
Baltic Protests and Financial Meltdowns: Part I"the three Baltic economies are in a deep economic crisis. Estonia and Latvia experienced a decline in their GDP of about 2.5% last year. And this year, the Baltic economies are expected to contract by at least 5%.
Libertas EU Funding Confusion The European Union Parliament may review its decision to grant funding to the anti-Lisbon Treaty party Libertas. The move comes after Estonian MP Igor Gräzin, sent an affidavit to the EU Parliament on Feb. 3 disavowing his support.
Eastern Europe braced for a violent 'spring of discontent'Riots and street battles are set to spread through Bulgaria, Romania and the Baltic states as inflation, unemployment and racism fuel tension, reports Jason Burke
Yahoo Limits Retention of Personal Data to 90 DaysYahoo's new data retention policy is the most restrictive among major search engines in the United States and will most likely put pressure on rivals like Google and Microsoft to shorten the time they keep information about their users.
Botnets, Part 1: Why They Strike and How to Defend Against ThemBotnets have been over-hyped yet under-reported. Meanwhile, increasingly sophisticated and hard-to-detect botnet attacks have lulled many organizations into complacency.
Betrayal in Estonia? NATO Claims a Russian SpyA former Estonian defense official has been arrested for allegedly selling NATO and European Union secrets to the Russia, reports Der Spiegel.
Estonian ISP Cuts off Control Servers for Srizbi BotnetAn Estonian ISP that temporarily hosted the command-and-control servers for the Srizbi botnet, responsible for a large portion of the world's spam, has cut off those servers, according to computer security analysts.
Massive botnet returns from the dead, starts spammingA big spam-spewing botnet shut down two weeks ago has been resurrected, security researchers said today, and is again under the control of criminals.
Estonian Spy Scandal Shakes NATO and EUFor years an Estonian government official has apparently been collecting the most intimate secrets of NATO and the EU -- and passing them on to the Russians. The case is a disaster for Brussels.
Russian spy in Nato could have passed on missile defence and cyber-war secrets. by Roger Boyes in Berlin. November 16, 2008Herman Simm, 61, an Estonian defence ministry official who was arrested in September, was responsible for handling all of his country's classified information at Nato, giving him access to every top-secret graded document from other alliance countries.
Periods of healthy old age among Europeans vary The health of older Europeans varies widely between countries, even in those with longer life expectancies, a report has claimed.
Where to stay sober in Estonia There are two train services a day from Tallinn to Tartu, but a decent road means a car journey should take around two and a half hours.
Two Estonian farms establish 'Soviet republic,' seek recognitionST. PETERSBURG, September 3 (RIA Novosti) - Two farms in north-east Estonia have joined forces to declare an independent "Soviet republic" and intend to seek Russia's recognition, a Russian communist organization said on Wednesday.
Under the Baltic: an Interview with an Estonian maritime archaeologist & historian, Vello Mäss Archaelogy magazine features an interview with maritime archaeologist Vello Mäss of the Estonian Maritime Museum; that is, just a day prior to reports of a US warship carrying aid to the Georgian port of Poti.
Jamaica (2.222) was #1for "Gold Medals won per million of 2005 population" followed by Bahrain (#2, 1.326), Estonia (#3, 0.775), New Zealand (#4, 0.763), Mongolia (#5, 0.749), Australia (#7, 0.697); India (0.00091) came last.
Jamaica wins the 2008 Beijing Olympic medal tally on a per population basis In "gold medal tally by per million population", Jamaica was winning with 2.1582 as of Saturday afternoon. The runner-up was Bahrain and Estonia the third. China was 45th, the US 31st , Russia 26th, India last.
Experts: Internet Filtering and Censorship Rife - CNN.comBelieve the conspiracy theories -- out of sight and without your knowledge, governments truly are filtering what you see on the Internet. More Articles
World Wide Web - Battle for South Ossetia Fought in CyberspaceSkirmishes have been conducted on Web sites before, notably as part of disputes that Russia had with Estonia in 2007 and Lithuania in July, but South Ossetia marked the first time they have been launched along with ground troops and air strikes.
Neighbors stand with Georgians after cease-fireLeaders say nations won't surrender freedom; the West weighs how to answer Russia's raid. By Tom Lasseter and Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers
Estonia, Google Help Cyberlocked Georgia Civil,ge, the Georgian news site, is "under permanent [cyber] attack." So they've switched their operations to one of Google's Blogspot domains, to keep the information flowing about what's going on in their country. The attacks against Civil.ge are part of a larger set of onlin …
Amy Goodman: U.S. Election Turns GlobalTALLINN, Estonia -- When I arrived in Estonia last week -- a former Soviet republic that lies just south of Finland -- everyone had an opinion on Barack Obama's speech in Berlin.
Apologizing for terrorism is completely indefensible. Have people forgotten MLK and Gandhi's teachings? Have people forgotten the Velvet and Singing Revolutions in Eastern Europe against the Soviet/Russian Empire?
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