Estonia
Republic of Estonia
Eesti Vabariik
CAPITAL: Tallinn
FLAG: Three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), black, and white.
ANTHEM: Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm (My Native Land, ...
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The Republic of Estonia, with a population of 1.4 million people, lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea and shares its borders with Latvia and Russia. Russia continues to dispute border ...
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Estonia
POPULATION 1,415,681LUTHERAN 14.0 percentORTHODOX CHURCH 13.0 percentOTHER CHRISTIAN 1.4 percentJEHOVAH'S WITNESSES 0.3 percentMUSLIM 0.1 percentANIMIST 0.1 percentATHEIST 6.1 percentOT...
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Area: 45,227 sq km (17,462 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 1,343,000Capital:
Tallinn
Chief of state:
Presidents
Arnold
Rüütel and from October 9, Toomas Hendrik
Ilves
Head of government...
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Estonia reopened its embassy in Moscow on Friday following a three-day protest over the Baltic nation's decision to move a Soviet war memorial from central Tallinn.Pro-Kremlin youth groups had stag...
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Democracy: Russian brutality against tiny Estonia over the removal of a Soviet memorial is a brazen challenge to the West and nations that want to become part of it. A response is in order.Since th...
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Jewish leaders and politicians from Estonia and Israel celebrated the opening of the Baltic country's first and only synagogue Wednesday, six decades after previous houses of worship were destroyed...
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President Bush, acknowledging he could stand to "learn a lot" about cyber-security, expressed concern Monday over the high-tech hacking that crippled computer systems in Estonia.Bush praised Estoni...
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Estonia's defense minister said Thursday the massive cyber attacks that have crippled the high-tech country's Web sites are a threat to national security, and that it's possible the Russian governm...
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President Toomas Hendrik Ilves vetoed legislation Thursday calling for the removal of a Soviet war memorial from the capital, saying the measure violated the constitution.The bill, which provoked a...
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Estonia's foreign minister canceled a meeting with Russian lawmakers Tuesday, saying they were spreading lies about a Soviet war monument whose removal from a downtown square last week provoked rio...
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Estonia on Tuesday reburied the remains of eight Soviet soldiers whose exhumation from a war grave had sparked deadly riots and infuriated neighboring Russia.The eight white caskets were lowered in...
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Estonian lawmakers on Thursday narrowly approved a bill calling for the removal of a Soviet war memorial from their capital, ignoring Moscow's warning of "irreversible consequences" for relations b...
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