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	Encyclopedia: Russian Estonia
		Harju County or Harjumaa (Estonian Harju maakond or Harjumaa) is a County or maakond of Estonia on the south coast of the Gulf of Finland.
		Ida-Viru County or Eastern Virumaa (Estonian: Ida-Viru maakond or Ida-Virumaa) is one of the counties of Estonia.
		JÃ¤rva County or JÃ¤rvamaa (Estonian: JÃ¤rva maakond or JÃ¤rvamaa) is one of the counties of Estonia.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Russian-Estonia (644 words)

	Estonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Estonia regained its independence on August 20, 1991, with the Singing Revolution and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
		Estonia lies on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea on the level northwestern part of the rising east European platform between 57.3° and 59.5° N and 21.5° and 28.1° E. Average elevation reaches only 50 m, and the country's highest point is the Suur Munamägi in the southeast (318 m).
		Russian is also much more widely understood than spoken by 30-70 year old ethnic Estonians (learning Russian in schools in large volume as the second language was compulsory for them during the Soviet era).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Estonia (1443 words)

	Russian Estonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Estonia became a governorate-general of Russia in 1710, when it was conquered from Sweden.
		The former dominion of Swedish Estonia was ceded by Sweden in the Treaty of Nystad in 1721.
		Estonia (Estland) was one of three Baltic provinces along with Livonia and Courland and would remain in Russian control until February 1918.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russian_Estonia (136 words)

	About the Russian Church in Estonia by Eerik Niiles Kross
		In that case, the Estonian Republic would have to admit that the Russian embassy in Tallinn is the same as the Provincial Administration (Gubernskoye Nachal'stvo) of the time of the Czar and has existed continually in Estonia.
		When the Russians were close to defeat in 1943, Stalin gave his concsent for the convocation of Church Assembly, electing a new Patriarch and open some priest's seminaries.
		In 1923, Patriarch Meletius 4 of Constantinople consecrated Alexander as Metropolitan.
	www.orthodoxa.org /GB/estonia/documentsEOC/russian_church.htm (1121 words)

	NCSJ - Estonia page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Estonia continues a vigorous regimen of reforms, facilitating its accession to NATO in November 2002 and its prospective accession to the European Union in 2004, while still struggling with some of the legacies of Soviet rule.
		Estonia is a parliamentary democracy with a legislative, executive and judicial branch.
		Estonia is part of the “Vilnius 10," a group of Central and Eastern European countries that pledged support for the U.S. position.
	www.ncsj.org /Estonia.shtml (2521 words)

	Estonia (10/05)
		Estonia maintains an embassy in the United States at 2131 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20008 (tel: [1] (202) 588-0101; fax: [1] (202) 588-0108).
		The U.S. Ambassador to Estonia is Aldona Zofia Wos.
		Estonia also is represented in the United States by a Consulate General in New York and three Honorary Consuls: Jaak Treiman in Los Angeles, Mart Kask in Seattle, and Scott E. Schul in Maine.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/5377.htm (5524 words)

	Estonia - Wikitravel
		Estonia is considered fully prepared and is expected to join the Eurozone on the 1st of January 2007.
		As Estonia used to be food mass-production powerhouse in the times of USSR some of its food, unknown to westerners, are still well-recognized in the lands of C.I.S. Among other everyday food some game products are offered in food stores in Estonia, mostly wild boar and elk sausages and deer grill.
		Estonia is former USSR country and therefore is one of the poorest in the enlarged EU, followed only by two other Baltic States.
	wikitravel.org /en/article/Estonia (2216 words)

	Russian Communities in Estonia
		Russian was proclaimed the official language in Estonia, causing an increased influx of Russian civil servants.
		However, a number of Russian war prisoners, refugees and forcefully recruited labourers were brought in from Russian territory during the German occupation in 1941 – 1944.
		Currently the influence of the pre-war Russian population of Estonia is small compared to that of the later immigrants.
	www.einst.ee /society/russian_communities.htm (3203 words)

	Russian conquest (from Estonia) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Russian tsar Peter I (the Great) was finally able to achieve the dream of his predecessors and conquer the Baltic provinces.
		It is bounded on the west and north by the Baltic Sea and on the east by Lake Peipus (Peipsi; Russian: Chudskoye Ozero) and the Narva River; it is bordered on the east and southeast by Russia and on the south by Latvia.
		The term Russian literature is used to describe the literature of different areas at different periods, from the loose confederation of East Slavic tribes known as Kievan Rus that originated in the 10th century to the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union to present-day Russia.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-37291 (804 words)

	Estonia
		The Russian Orthodox congregation meantime asked for two postponements of the court hearing in the hope that the issue could be settled out of court.
		The OSCE mission to Estonia, which was established in 1993, closed on December 31 following the OSCE Chairman-in-Office's announcement earlier in the month that Estonia was in full compliance with the recommendations the Chairman-in-Office had issued the previous year for closing the mission.
		In 1998 the Government accepted a Russian Government proposal to establish a high-level commission to examine all aspects of bilateral relations, including a subgroup that would examine the humanitarian aspects of the Russian minority in Estonia and possibly of the Estonian minority in Russia.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/eur/8247.htm (5605 words)

	World Water Assessment Programme \| Case Studies \| Lake Peipsi Chudskoe-Pskovskoe (Estonia, Russian Federation)
		It is located on the border of the Republic of Estonia and the Russian Federation between Lake Peipsi Lowland (eastern border of Estonia) and the East-European Plain (Russia).
		On the Russian side especially, which is quite sparsely populated, vast areas of wetlands have impeded the development of agriculture and industry on a larger scale.
		Estonian and Russian research cooperation was interrupted by the re-establishment of the border at the beginning of the 1990s, and restored in the middle of the 1990s.
	www.unesco.org /water/wwap/case_studies/peipsi_lake/index.shtml (3561 words)

	Russian London / Estonia accused of anti-Semitism after memorial is erected to \'SS executioner\' / (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Russian London / Estonia accused of anti-Semitism after memorial is erected to \'SS executioner\' /
		Estonia has been accused of fuelling anti-Semitism and glorifying Nazism after a memorial was erected there to a colonel in the Waffen SS who is alleged to have the blood of thousands of people on his hands.
		The monument to Alfons Rebane, an Estonian volunteer in the SS during the Second World War who died in 1976, was erected last week in northern Estonia at the initiative of a wealthy farmer called Lembit Someril.
	www.russianlondon.com /print/20938 (416 words)

	Aleksanteri-instituutti
		I study Estonia and its Russian-speaking minority from the point of view of how such international attention to minority issues has influenced, and how it has been perceived and used among the minority itself.
		Such a perspective focusing on the minority's view on international minority protection has so far been largely neglected in research, but I think that it is an essential part of understanding of such nation-building that has been permeated by international actors, and also important for understanding the consequences of international minority protection interventions.
		The time span of this study starts from the re-gained independence in 1991 and is planned to end by the likely membership of Estonia in the EU in 2004.
	www.helsinki.fi /aleksanteri/hankkeet/vaitoskirjat/korhonen.htm (237 words)

	Välisministeerium : August 31st 2004, the 10th Anniversary of the Withdrawal of Russian Troops from Estonia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Estonia’s economy has become one of the fastest growing and most competitive economies in the world.
		Non-recognition of the occupation has ensured that the Republic of Estonia is the legal continuation of the Republic of Estonia, which was illegally occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940.
		Estonia’s assertion, recognised internationally, that it was its legal and moral right to have foreign forces removed from its soil.
	www.vm.ee /eng/kat_400/4777.html (912 words)

	Pravda.RU:In Estonia Russian earn less than Estonians due to discrimination (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The incomes of Russians in Tallinn are 20 percent and in Estonia on the whole 12% less than of Estonians mostly owing to legalised discrimination.
		Russian workers with higher or average specialised education are numerically more than Estonians and are engaged mostly in industry, transport and communication.
		Over half of Russians are not sure about their work prospects because they more than Estonians feel the threat of unemployment.
	english.pravda.ru /world/2002/06/21/30907_.html (254 words)

	Outrage as SS men hold anniversary celebration in Estonia / Society / Russian London
		The EU newcomer Estonia was accused of amorality and gross historical insensitivity yesterday after it allowed veterans of the Nazi Waffen-SS to parade through its capital Tallinn.
		Organisers said the celebration was held to mark the 60th anniversary of battles fought by the Estonian SS against the Soviet army and to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the withdrawal of Russian troops from the country.
		Government sources say that Estonia is a free country that respects freedom of assembly and that the country's history is not as fl and white as it is often made out to be.
	www.russianlondon.ru /uknews/society/21432 (901 words)

	AllRefer.com - Estonia - Population - Health \| Estonian Information Resource
		According to public opinion polls conducted in 1993 and 1994, however, the vast majority of local Russians were not inclined to leave Estonia.
		The reverse flow of migration is thought to have contributed in the early 1990s to a slight rise in the Estonian proportion of the population.
		Although Estonians dominate in the countryside, the Russian population in Estonia is nearly 90 percent urban, living mainly in Tallinn and in the northeastern industrial towns of Kohtla-Järve, Sillamäe, and Narva.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/estonia/estonia17.html (951 words)

	Ethnicity in Estonia
		The Swedish settlement was mostly on the islands of western Estonia and the Noarootsi peninsula on the west coast.
		The rest of the Russians in Estonia are ‘foreign-born’: they are Soviet immigrants and their offspring, of whom 60 000-70 000 are Estonian nationals, just over 100 000 are citizens of the Russian Federation, and about 150 000 have not specified their nationality.
		They have lived in the same areas as the Russians and are facing some serious problems, such as the preservation of their native language and the establishment of their own school.
	www.einst.ee /historic/society/ethnicity.htm (2577 words)

	CER \| Russian parliamentarian criticizes Estonia
		According to the document, the starting points of Estonia's defense planning include armed aggression as the most serious security risk to repulse, which is the main task of the national defense forces.
		Estonia's Andrus Veerpalu won the gold medal in the 30-kilometer classical style race at the cross-country skiing world championship in Lahti, Finland.
		Estonia's Ühispank group took a loss of EEK (Estonian kroons) 99 million (about USD 5.7 million) in 2000.
	www.ce-review.org /01/8/estonianews8.html (1028 words)

	Mercator Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1721 the territory of Estonia became a province of the Russian empire and Russian nobles started to settle in Estonia.
		The majority of them were settled in East Estonia; traditionally they lived near Lake Peipus, but also on the other side of the Narva River and in Petseri county, which was annexed to Estonia by the Tartu Treaty.
		Many Russians resettled in Russia and in 1945 the frontiers were altered so that the areas of mixed population on the other side of the Narva River and Petseri county were no longer Estonian territory.
	www.aber.ac.uk /~merwww/english/lang/ruskest.htm (352 words)

	Estonia / Russian London
		A small and heavily forested country, Estonia is the most northerly of the three former Soviet Baltic republics.
		Estonia was part of the Russian empire until 1918 when it proclaimed its independence.
		Gordon Burnes Russians deny Everton bid Boris Zingarevich is not planning to buy directly or indirectly assets abroad and this applies to his son Boris Zingarevich's spokesman Russian Anton Zingarevich's planned £20m investment in Everton has been denied by his billionaire father Boris.
	www.russianlondon.com /list/estonia (597 words)

	A virtual travel to Estonia - Northern Europe, Eesti Vabariik
		As a result of centuries of Danish, Swedish, German, and Russian rule, the idea of an independent Estonian state had already been raised in the late 19th century and came true in 1918 when Estonia attained independence from the Russian Empire.
		Since April 2004 Estonia is a member of NATO and member of the European Union since May 2004.
		Terrain: Estonia is a green land, forests cover around half of the country.
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/estonia.htm (920 words)

	SMOKING AMONG ESTONIAN AND RUSSIAN SCHOOLCHILDREN IN ESTONIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The aim of the study was to obtain comparative data to illustrate smoking habits and attitudes towards smoking among Estonian and Russian schoolchildren.
		The target group was made up of 1269 Estonian and 901 Russian schoolchildren of VIII, X and XII classes of secondary schools of Tallinn.
		Russian smoke also at parties and in the street but in restaurants, too.
	www.globalink.org /tobacco/docs/eu-docs/helsinki/SmokeFree-290.html (375 words)

	RIA Novosti - Russia - Moscow expresses concern over Estonia "squeezing out" Russian military retirees
		According to Russian officials, Galitsky was illegally denied a residence permit extension and threatened with expulsion.
		Estonia committed itself to providing social guarantees for Russian military pensioners, including the right to obtain residence permits, as part of a July 1994 accord between then-presidents Boris Yeltsin and Lennart Meri, which also provided for a speedy pullout of Russian military bases.
		Ethnic Russians make up about a quarter of the country's 1.6 million inhabitants, but at least 300,000 are without citizenship.
	en.rian.ru /russia/20051027/41911466.html (297 words)

	Arts & Humanities \| Dates from the History of Estonia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The establishment of feudalism and serfdom in Estonia.
		According to the census: 1.203.000 inhabitants in Estonia.
		February: during the talks between Estonia and European Union it is agreed that Estonia will become the Associate Member of EU without a transition period.
	www.ibs.ee /ibs/history/dates.html (578 words)

	Estonia
		Estonia is mainly a lowland country that is bordered by the Baltic Sea, Latvia, and Russia.
		Estonia: History - History To the Nineteenth Century The Estonians settled in their present territory before the...
		Estonia: Economy - Economy In the years that it was part of the Soviet Union, Estonia provided the USSR with gas and...
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107501.html (596 words)

	Estonia Expels Russian Diplomats Over Espionage - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Estonia’s former ambassador to Russia, Mart Helme, was quoted as saying they had probably been testing Estonia’s ability to protect classified information as it prepares to join NATO.
		Estonia expelled two Russian diplomats in 2000 and one in 1996, all for spying.
		Russian WWII Veteran Sentenced for Genocide Dies in Latvia
	www.mosnews.com /news/2004/03/22/estonia.shtml (674 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		14, 2004 The Russian parties in Estonia have declared their readiness to defend Russian-medium education and say they are going to do it via European structures.
		The EUPP secretary-general added that the party board Friday supported a position that had the aim of applying for unity of the forces fighting for the linguistic, educational, social and political equality of the Russian- speaking population in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
		Yegorov underlined that the Russian-speaking population of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania totaled about 1.4 million people and it was a force that had to be reckoned with.
	www.asu.edu /educ/epsl/LPRU/newsarchive/Art3566.txt (448 words)

	WHKMLA : History of Estonia, 1721-1795
		Under Russian rule, Estonia continued to enjoy political autonomy, The country recovered from the destruction inflicted during the Great Nordic War.
		In each, the Ritterschaft remained in control of the LANDTAG as well as of the administration, German continued to be the language of administration, jurisdiction and education as well as the language of the Lutheran state church.
		In 1790, Estonia's population was estimated at 500,000.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/eceurope/estonia172195.html (274 words)

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