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...most dramatic cuts have come in Eastern Europe, particularly in Latvia, where the government has cut public funding for higher education in half since 2008. Poland, Hungary and Estonia have all cut or plan to make cuts of between 4% and 7%. But it's not just the east - wealthier European nations are also feeling the bite. This month, Britain announced cuts as high as 14% to some university budgets, while both Italian and Spanish schools face reductions of about 10%. The situation is so bad in Spain that schools extended holiday breaks last year to save money on heating...
Widely acclaimed for the political freedom and economic development made possible in Estonia under his leadership, Ilves drew a large Estonian audience, including an Estonian woman who was over ninety-years old and too weak to climb to the fourth floor of Littauer Building, and who waited downstairs for the President until the seminar ended...
...addition, Ilves discussed the tensions between Russia and Estonia...
...response to a question about why history textbooks in Estonia portray the relationship with the Soviet Union in a negative light, Ilves said he doesn’t “think there’s anything wrong with hating the Soviet Union...
...according to Marshall I. Goldman, Senior Scholar in the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, the present history textbooks in Estonia may cause animosity against the Soviet Union amongst the younger generation...