Gary Paulsen was born on May 17, 1939 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. "I'm only a second-generation American. My father's family came to this country from Denmark; my mother's people emigrated from Norway ...
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Tallinn (dpa) - Estonian government ministers said Sunday that
they had no regrets over their decision to remove a Soviet war
memorial from central Tallinn, despite the riot...
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Moscow (dpa) - Russia's First Vice-Premier Sergei Ivanov called on
Tuesday for a boycott of Estonian goods and holidays in an escalating
row over the proposed relocation of ...
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Budapest (dpa) - Two groups opposed to a Soviet memorial in
downtown Budapest on Friday claimed to have collected the necessary
200,000 signatures to launch a national refer...
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Tallinn (dpa) - Life for Estonia's most infamous monument has not
been a bed of roses recently, but that all changed on Wednesday as
Estonia's Russians visited it in its new...
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Tallinn (dpa) - Estonia's new centre-right coalition government
was sworn in on Thursday morning, a month and a day after
parliamentary elections in the smallest Baltic stat...
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Tallinn (dpa) - Russians in Estonia and Russia reacted furiously
on Thursday to the Estonian government's decision to begin
excavations at a controversial war grave next wee...
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Moscow/Tallinn (dpa) - Russia's Foreign Ministry on Monday lodged
a complaint over plans by the former Soviet republic of Estonia to
exhume the bodies of Red Army soldiers f...
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Tallinn (dpa) - Excavation works began on Thursday on the site of
a controversial Soviet war memorial in Tallinn in a move expected to
spark fury among Estonia's ethnic Russ...
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Tallinn (dpa) - The politicians and people of Estonia on Friday
remained braced for possible further civil unrest as Estonians and
Russians prepare to mark the anniversary o...
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The Taj Mahal, India's world-famous ''monument to love,'' is all
set to get a rejuvenating cleansing facial to recover its sheen.
The more than 350-year-old marble mausoleum, located about ...
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