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Will compromise solve near history' impasse as Russian and Estonian political ...
Eesti elu
As the Estonian Social Democrats (SDE) join with the Russian Party in Estonia (VEE) the most basic difference in historical interpretation remains unsolved – the question of whether the Soviet Union occupied Estonia or not. The Russian leadership has ...


Recession looming over CEE
Financial Times (blog)
Estonia released fourth quarter GDP data on Friday – and the news wasn't good. The economy grew 4 per cent year-on-year, down from 8 per cent in the previous quarter and its slowest pace in one and a half years. With a raft of data due next week, ...

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Bird Droppings from Estonia: Küünlapäeval
Eesti elu
The 2nd of February, mid-winter, is best known in Estonia as Tartu Rahulepingu Aastapäev, the Tartu Peace Day, the anniversary of the 1920 treaty between Estonia and the USSR that promised an everlasting peace that fell to pieces in 1941.