August 21, 2015
Aug 19, 2015 By Kara Nordness On August 11th, the Joint Baltic American National Committee (JBANC) hosted its second annual briefing on Capitol Hill for visiting Baltic high school students. The students were in the […]
June 24, 2015
BY KARL ALTAU JUNE 23, 2015 *NEARLY 50,000 CITIZENS OF THE BALTIC COUNTRIES WERE SENT TO THE GULAG IN JUNE 1941 *THOUSANDS OF THOSE DEPORTED DIED ON THEIR WAY TO THE GULAGS This June, we […]
August 25, 2014
August 23 marked the 75th anniversary of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which divided Europe and helped start the Second World War. The first commemoration of Black Ribbon Day to be held in the U.S. Capitol […]
July 29, 2014
The Joint Baltic American National Committee, Inc. (JBANC) has begun a series of meetings with members of the House Baltic Caucus to thank and recognize them for their support for Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Photo […]
May 23, 2014
From Jaak Pedak, 5/23/14: The Black Ribbon Day resolution passes yesterday (May 22) in the U.S. Congress – to recognize victims of Soviet communist and Nazi regimes. This is especially important in light with what […]
March 15, 2014
Ambassador Marina Kaljurand was in Florida for the Official Opening of the Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Estonia in St. Petersburg, Florida and was the speaker at the Estonian Independence Day luncheon in Clearwater, […]
February 16, 2014
Starting in January 2014, Stanford University Libraries (SUL) and the Museum of Occupations are conducting a campaign to collect Estonian expat community members’ family photobooks. The goal of the project is to help preserve the […]
January 30, 2014
From EstonianWorld.com: Estonian conductor Tõnu Kaljuste has won a Grammy Award in the Best Choral Performance category for his work on composer Arvo Pärt’s album “Adam’s Lament” at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in Los […]
December 20, 2013
Kalev H. Leetaru has been honored as one of Foreign Policy Magazine’s top 100 Global Thinkers of 2013, an enormously prestigious award which recognize “the world’s most exciting people… [who have] made a measurable difference […]
December 20, 2013
The widely-read “The Economist” Magazine has selected “Into Exile: A Life Story of War and Peace” by Elin Toona Gottschalk as one of the best books of 2013: “The poignant autobiography of an Estonian schoolgirl whose […]
November 27, 2013
Olga Kistler-Ritso, who received the Estonian American National Council’s 2012 award for “Outstanding Achievement,” passed away on Nov. 18, 2013, in Redmond, Washington. Dr. Kistler-Ritso established the Kistler-Ritso Foundation together with her husband, Walter P. […]
November 15, 2013
7 November (BNS), from Estonian Review, published by the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs “Nicole Aunapu Mann, 35-year-old U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot whose grandfather emigrated from Estonia before World War II, is one of […]