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Wassily Kandinsky could have ended up a law professor. Born in Moscow in 1866, Kandinsky studied law and at the age of 30 was offered a professorship at what is now Tartu University in Estonia. Luckily for us, he had been inspired by an exhibition of French Impressionists the year before. He turned down the university job and moved to Germany to study painting full time. "Kandinsky," a major retrospective at Paris' Pompidou Center until Aug. 10 and then at the Guggenheim in New York City from Sept. 18, tracks his journey over the ensuing decades, both geographically and stylistically...
...once it gets to 350. Employers are extra nice. "Every evening I'm almost standing at the door and asking everyone as they leave, 'Did you enjoy yourself, and can I expect to see you tomorrow?'" says Teet Jagomagi, not entirely joking. He runs a mapping-software company in Tartu, the second largest city...
...hugely grateful for the workers they have. "Every evening I'm almost standing at the door and asking everyone as they leave: Did you enjoy yourself and can I expect to see you tomorrow?" says Teet Jagomägi, not entirely joking. He runs a mapping software company in Tartu, the second largest city. It's doing good business in partnership with Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson, and has 70 employees. Jagomägi says he would like it to grow to about 150, but he's already lost a few of his people to the two other big technology firms...
Taranovsky, who was born in what is now Tartu, Estonia, grew up in Tartu, St. Petersburg and Kharkov. His father, a professor of Slavic law, emigrated with his family to Yugoslavia soon after the Bolshevik revolution...
Intellectually, Lauristin had long ago left doctrinaire communist ideas behind. In the late 1960s she attended the university at Tartu, where Western thinkers were widely studied. At the same time she set out to shed the unhappy legacy of her father, who in 1939 signed away Estonia's freedom to the Soviet Union. A statue of him honoring that deed still stands beside the newly constituted independent parliament in Tallinn. Now Lauristin is asking parliament to remove...