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This text looks at environmental and housing movements in Hungary, Russia and Estonia, and pays particular attention to their relation to the regime change in Eastern Europe and Russia. ... Read more

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This study guide contains basic information on economy, government, business, history and geography, climate, traditions, people, places to visit. Provides information on government, political organizations, and more...Includes basic statistics, information on the most important business contacts and business travel. Updated annually. ... Read more

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Of all the Soviet Union's subject nationalities, the three Baltic republics, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, were the most determined and best organised in seizing the opportunities created by glasnost and perestroika to win freedom from Moscow's grip. At the time of first publication, in 1991, the final section of the book was speculative. Now for this revised edition, the authors have provided a new final chapter which brings the story up to date -- and the three republics to political independence again. ... Read more

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The exotic nation - "LITHUANAI"
"The Baltic Nations and Europe: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuanai in the Twentieth Century" have to be very exotic book, because there is some new Baltic Nation mentioned - "LITHUANAI". What it is? ... Read more

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One dilemma facing new or newly independent states, such as those of the former Soviet Union, is how to design effective legislatures when political parties are weak and fragmented or even nonexistent. In this book, Joel M. Ostrow develops a comparative institutional framework to explain marked differences in behavior across three post-Soviet legislatures: the Russian Supreme Soviet, the Russian State Duma, and the Estonian legislature. He argues that these differences in ability to manage political conflict can be explained in large measure by the design of the legislatures. Most significant is the choice of whether and how to include parties or partisan factors.

Legislatures are an omnipresent component of modern democracy. Ostrow's comparative institutional design confirms the presumption of many political scientists that parties are essential for legislative consensus building. However, it also reveals that parties may have paradoxical effects on a legislature's performance. In following the budget process in Russia and Estonia, Ostrow explores the consequences that different institutional designs have had on post-Soviet legislatures. He has found that how parties are included may determine how capable a legislature is at managing political conflict, both internally and with the executive branch of the government. The author was present at many of the committee hearings and legislative sessions he describes, and his firsthand observations and interviews with committee members enhance his analysis. ... Read more

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A Comparison of the Soviet Duma and Estonian Riigkogu
Joel Ostrow's analysis of the institutional design of the Soviet Duma and the Estonian Riigikogu is comprehensive and insightful. Ostrow draws on many excellent sources, including copious interviews with governmental officials, to give the reader a picture of just why the Duma failed and the Riigikogu is working. In the end, posits Ostrow, institutional design defines the space in which good ideas either grow or are trapped. Linkages between legislative and governmental functions, as well consensus building, administrative resources, and the expertise of special committees are some of the major facotrs that Ostrow explains and compares. A great book for students of Russia, and an even better one for students of comparative politics. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The President of the Republic (Estonian: Eesti Vabariigi President) is the head of state of the Republic of Estonia. Estonia is a parliamentary republic, therefore President is mainly a symbolic figure and holds no executive power. The President has to suspend his membership in any political party for his term in office. Upon assuming office, the authority and duties of the President in all other elected or appointed offices terminate automatically. These measures should theoretically ensure that the President is independent and impartial in executing his authority. The President is elected by the Riigikogu or a special electoral body for a five-year term. The electoral body is convened in case no candidate secures a two-third-majority in Riigikogu after three rounds of balloting. The electoral body (which consists of Parliament deputies and elected representatives of all local governments) elects the president, choosing between the two candidates with the largest percentage of votes. ... Read more

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Globalization is a fact in the 21st century and due to that, Silicon Valley and Asian Tigers are only next door to European gateways. Thus, all theories demanding new approach to the economy, new basic understanding of driving forces in economic growth and world competitiveness, are driven from the simple truth ? there is no other choice as to improve the European growth capacity through knowledge, intellectual capital, innovation and theories of management that concentrate on knowledge management.The main idea of this work is to find concepts, theories, best practices for innovative capacity building in Estonia, what must be done to bring along changes to further knowledge economy and innovation in Estonia. ... Read more

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Human rights in Estonia are generally respected by thegovernment. Estonia is ranked above-averagein democracy,press freedom,privacy and humandevelopment.Individuals are guaranteed basic rights underthe constitution, legislative acts, and treaties relatingto human rights ratified by the Estonian government.Several international and human rights organisations, suchas Human Rights Watch,the UN Human Rights Council and theOSCE, have found no evidence or pattern of systematic abuseof human rights or discrimination on ethnic grounds, whileothers have raised concerns regarding Estonia'ssignificant Russophone minority, for example, AmnestyInternational contends Russian speakers face linguisticdiscrimination in employment and education. Currentconcerns include police use of force, the conditions in pre- trial detention and the length of those detentions ... Read more

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This collaborative work focuses on the international dimension of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania's security challenges post their re-emergence as independent states in 1991. Given their specific geopolitical positioning between the 'old West and Russia', however, they are subjected to particularly acute attention in spite of their smallness. As a result, they have come to represent incarnations of several fundamental post-Cold War questions. ... Read more

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Chapters: Lennart Meri, President of Estonia, Arnold Rüütel, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Konstantin Päts, Heinrich Mark. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 46. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: 2nd Helle Meri Lennart Georg Meri (Estonian pronunciation: ) (29 March 1929 14 March 2006) was a writer, film director and statesman who served as the second President of Estonia from 1992 to 2001. Meri was a leader of the Estonian independence movement. Lennart Meri was born in Tallinn, a son of the Estonian diplomat and later Shakespeare translator Georg Meri, and Estonian Swedish mother Alice-Brigitta Engmann. With his family, Lennart left Estonia at an early age and studied abroad, in nine different schools and in four different languages. His warmest memories were from his school years in Lycée Janson de Sailly in Paris. In addition to his native Estonian, Lennart Meri fluently spoke five other languages: Finnish, French, German, English and Russian. However, the family was in Tallinn when Estonia was occupied by the armed forces of the Soviet Union in June 1940. The extended Meri family was split in the middle between those supporting the Soviet Union and the Allies of WWII and those opposing the Soviets. Lennart's cousin Arnold Meri joined the Red Army and was soon made a Hero of the Soviet Union. In 1941, the Meri family was deported to Siberia along with thousands of other Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians sharing the same fate. Heads of the family were separated from their families and shut into concentration camps where few survived. At the age of twelve, Lennart Meri worked as a lumberman in Siberia. He also worked as a potato peeler and a rafter to support his family. Whilst in exile, Lennart Meri grew interested in the other Finno-Ugric languages that he heard around him, the language...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=379531 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The settlement of modern day Estonia began around 8500 BC, immediately after the Ice Age. Over the centuries, the Estonians were subjected to Danish, Teutonic, Swedish and Russian rule. Foreign rule in Estonia began in 1227. In the aftermath of the Livonian Crusade the area was conquered by Danes and Germans. From 1228-1562, parts or most of Estonia were incorporated into a crusader state Terra Mariana, that became part of the Ordensstaat, and after its decline was formed the Livonian Confederation. During the era economic activities centered around the Hanseatic League. In the 1500s Estonia passed to Swedish rule, under which it remained until 1710/1721, when it was ceded to the Russian Empire. ... Read more