The state-of-the-art Estonian National Museum, built on a former runway, was designed to represent the country’s emerging history.
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Estonian World: Flying like a swan – Sacha Dench in Estonia
Despite snow, fog, rain, injury and exhaustion a woman who has flown 7,000 kilometres from the Russian Arctic to the UK, via Estonia, charting the migration patterns of endangered swans, has almost completed her journey.
Estonian World: Anete Elken brings Estonian bread making to China
Most long-term expats know there is nothing quite like the taste of home, but one Estonian is now trying to recreate the taste of her homeland in China.
UB Post: ‘If we lose our livestock, we will lose everything’
These are the victims of the dzud that’s currently affecting most provinces in the country, mainly to the west and north. So far, more than 260,000 animals have died this winter and estimates put the daily death rate at around 1,000. If herders hadn’t slaughtered their animals en masse in the Autumn, the figure would now be in the millions.
ERR News: Holy Gingerbread
Buddha, a sacred cow and a pair of huge golden angel wings are just some of the exhibits included in this year's Gingerbread Mania exhibition which opens in Tallinn today.
Estonian World: Meet the Japanese friendship society that loves Estonian food and culture
It isn’t easy to find blood sausage, black bread and herring in Japan, but every year more than 100 people come together to cook a traditional Estonian meal in Tokyo.
ERR News: Last woman standing – one woman’s fight against HIV in Estonia
Disaster. That is the word Nelli Kalikova uses to describe the outbreak of HIV in Estonia in 2000.
ERR News and ERR: Vao – the small village most Estonians had never heard of until the refugee crisis
This summer, a small village even most Estonians had never heard of, suddenly became the epicenter of public discourse. There are a lot of stories about Vao – where the country's largest refugee center is based – and most of them are untrue.
Estonian World: Students create giant wooden megaphones to help people listen to Estonian nature
If a tree falls in the forest and no-one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? So the old saying goes.
Estonian World: Hope and freedom – remembering Estonia’s occupations
It might seem strange, but the main message to take away from the Tallinn Museum of Occupations is one of hope, at least that’s what managing director Merilin Piipuu wants visitors to think about when they come to see the museum’s exhibitions.
Helen Wright 