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...just the inviting palaces or inviting hookers, as great as those are. I think it has more to do with café culture and pub culture, with striking up conversations with strangers, something I rarely do in the US (with the small but notable exception of Chatroulette. Hi, Estonian friend...
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...
...outskirts of Marja, said that over 2,500 troops were inserted into Marja by helicopter without encountering enemy fire. "We were expecting hot landings in a few places, but there weren't any," said the Canadian who flew in on a Royal Canadian Air Force helicopter accompanying British, Estonian and Afghan troops. (See pictures of the new offensive in Afghanistan...
...American blockbuster model. "There's a lot of American fiction on the fringes that is very daring," he says. "But it is judged not by courage or the risks that it takes but by its success." By contrast, he says, "European literatures are not so market-driven. An Estonian writer is not striving to write a best seller, because what would be a best seller in Estonia...
...Accounts differ on what really happened to “The Arctic Sea,” a ship with an Estonian, Latvian, and Russian crew that was nominally bound from Finland to Algeria with a cargo of harmless timber. Initial reports claimed masked men speaking accented English subdued, but did not harm, the crew; then the ship simply vanished. Russia has claimed, once the ship was found off West Africa, that there was no suspicious cargo on board besides the intended logs. Yet experts believe there was more to the ship’s hijacking than pirates seeking ransom...