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Skipping Olympics, Estonian president opts for French lessons (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:52:57 GMT
Instead of going east to China for the Beijing Olympic ceremonies, Estonia's President Toomas Hendrik Ilves is about to set off in the opposite direction, heading to France to take a language course.

Estonia's CPI Growth Slows In July (INO News)
Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:47:29 GMT
(RTTNews) - Thursday, the Statistics Estonia announced that the consumer price index, or CPI, increased 11.1% year-over-year in July, after rising 11.4% in June.

iPhone To Launch 22 August In India, Estonia And The Czech Republic (paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance)
Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:20:47 GMT
Three more country launches for the 3G iPhone. India's Bharti Airtel, Estonia's EMT, and the Czech Republic's Telefonica O2 all announced today that they would begin selling the handsets on August 22.

Estonia Gets the iPhone (Unstrung.com)
Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:28:10 GMT
TALLINN, Estonia -- TeliaSonera and EMT today announced it will bring iPhone 3G to Estonia on August 22. iPhone 3G combines all the revolutionary features of iPhone plus 3G networking that is twice as fast*, built-in GPS for expanded location-based mobile services, and iPhone 2.0 software which includes support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and runs hundreds of third party applications ...

With Love: From Russia to Estonia (McKinney Courier-Gazette)
Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:44:25 GMT
Welcome back aboard the Le Diamant as we prepare to depart St. Petersbug, Russia, and sail the southern Gulf of Finland to Tallinn, capital of Estonia. We had suffered little wet weather thus far, but the gods were not to smile as we dutifully performed the required lifeboat drill.

Estonia torments ethnic Russians with rotten food (Pravda)
Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:50:49 GMT
Another scandal connected with the position of the Russian-speaking population is gathering pace in Estonia (a former republic of the Soviet Union).

Good morning Birmingham! (Birmingham Eccentric)
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:05:26 GMT
Today is Friday, Aug. 8. On this day in 1220 Sweden was defeated by Estonia in the battle of Lihula. Aren't you glad you know that?

TeliaSonera and EMT to bring iPhone 3G to Estonia on August 22 (Centre Daily Times)
Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:38:28 GMT
TeliaSonera (Nasdaq:TLSN) (STO:TLSN) (LSE:TEE) (HEX:TLS1V) and EMT today announced it will bring iPhone 3G to Estonia on August 22. iPhone 3G combines all the revolutionary features of iPhone plus 3G networking that is twice as fast*, built-in GPS for expanded location-based mobile services, and iPhone 2.0 software which includes support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and runs hundreds of ...

Georgia's summer conflict stirs memories in Baltics - Feature (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:44:56 GMT
Riga - The unfolding military conflict between the former Soviet republic of Georgia and Russia is reminding Baltic nations of what timing means in dealing with the former Soviet power. When the Soviet government attempted to stop Estonia, Latvia, an...

National pride (Concord Monitor)
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:16:13 GMT
Few countries had their national resilience and cultural pride tested as sorely in the 20th century as the Republic of Estonia. But as The Singing Revolution shows, the people always had their songs.

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