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03 October, 2016


Eesti sai esimese naispresidendi

Kersti Kaljulaid valiti presidendiks 81 häälega.
17 riigikogu liiget jättis valiku tegemata.

(Postimees | ERR | others)









- Who is Kersti Kaljulaid?



- Sõbrad ja kolleegid Kaljulaiust: analüütiline, konkreetne ja abivalmis
(ERR)








- Kersti Kaljulaid räägib…
(Postimees)



- Välispoliitika analüütik Kersti Kaljulaidist
(Eesti Päevaleht)



- Kersti Kaljulaid: president on alati seal, kus läheb keeruliseks, seda ma luban 
(Delfi)



- Kaljulaid sooviks presidendiametis jääda elama oma praegusesse elukohta
(Postimees)



- "On meie põlvkonna õnn, et me saame vabalt otsustada, kas tulla Eestisse tagasi."
(Õhtuleht)



- Kõrboja perenaine
(Delfi)




- Presidendivalimiste OTSEBLOGI: kandidaat Kersti Kaljulaid ETV “Valimisstuudios"
(ERR | Postimees)




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30 September, 2016





✔ Riigikogu koguneb presidenti valima esmaspäeval kell 13. 

Parlament party leaders announced that Kersti Kaljulaid is their choice to be the candidate for President of Estonia. Voting is scheduled for Monday.



Friday 30. September, 2016


✔ Secrets and Lives: The Estonian National Museum

(Architectural Review)
"In 1940, 240 acres from the manor’s estate were requisitioned in order to construct Raadi Airfield, which would become the largest of its kind in the Baltic and a major base for Soviet bombing raids. Soon after the 1944 Tartu Offensive Operation destroyed the manor – along with the secrecy of the airfield and its dominance over the city (which foreigners were no longer allowed to visit) – the museum’s collections were stored in churches or other empty spaces.”

"Launched in 2005, the competition brief for the new museum would have situated the building in Tartu itself, but DGT proposed occupying the former airfield, making the act of constructing the museum something of a memorialisation itself and one that also acts to regenerate what the firm refers to as a ‘charged and spatially unique place’. Not pulling any punches, the vast glass groundscraper – housing gallery spaces, a conference hall, public library, auditoriums, classrooms and offices – follows, and rises up from, an old runway, cutting through and opening up this once impossibly secretive place. Here it looms and glows, creating – in what is perhaps the project’s defining moment – a dip in the landscape that brings the visitor underneath the vast form while creating a sheltered courtyard space. This physical act of digging is reflected in Ghotmeh’s description of DGT’s approach – ‘whether a museum, an interior or set design, it is a digging process. A dig for histories, for stories, for traces …"


- Drone video of the new Estonian National Museum

(Postimees)


- Tartus avati Eesti Rahva Muuseum

(ERR | Postimees)





✔ Kaks Intervjuud: Üllatus Presidendikandidaad Kersti Kaljulaid

(ERR | Vikerraadio)



✔ Ülevaade presidendirallist: pool aastat ränka vaeva versus üllatuskandidaat Kersti Kaljulaid 

(Postimees) 



- Kaljulaidi kinnitusel on ta tulevikus president ka EKRE-le

(Postimees)



- Kaljulaiu seadsid presidendikandidaadiks 90 riigikogu liiget

(ERR)


- Kaljulaidi tuleb käänata nagu Kaljulaid eelistab 

(Postimees) 
"Eesti perenimesid võib käänata mitut moodi.” 




- Kas Eesti Rahva Muuseumi pilet on muu maailmaga võrreldes tõesti kallis? 

(Eesti Ekspress) 




- If You Knew Putin Like We Know Putin…

(The Daily Beast)
"Estonia’s president and Lithuania’s foreign minister talk about the menace Moscow poses to them, Europe, and the United States.”

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Thursday 29. September, 2016


✔ Kersti Kaljulaid: minu kiri kõigile Eestimaa inimestele

(Postimees)


- Erakonnad annavad Kaljulaiu toetusallkirjad valimiskomisjonile reedel

(ERR)
"Riigikogu hakkab presidenti valima esmaspäeval."




- Postimees Grupp to close print versions of Russian-language newspapers 

(Baltic Times) 



- NATO Must Work Harder to Debunk Russia’s Claims of Provocation 

(Chatham House) 
"NATO’s failure to clearly communicate its plans for multinational battalions in Poland and the Baltics is doing nothing to counter Russian claims that they are unnecessary and provocative." 


- Opinion: Vladimir Putin’s Outlaw State 

(New York Times) 


- Bold Art Helps Move the Needle on LGBTQ Acceptance in the Baltics

(NBC News)


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Wednesday 28. Sept.



- Presidendikandidaad Kersti Kaljulaid -

Foto: Postimees 

✔ Kersti Kaljulaid's CV

(Via European Court of Auditors)


✔ Kes on Kersti Kaljulaid?

(Postimees | Delfi)




✔ How did the parties came to pick Kersti Kaljulaid to be candidate for President?

(Postimees)




✔ Kersti Kaljulaid’s Page on the European Court of Auditors’ website 




✔ Estonian Press: Cross-party candidate could have been found among previous contenders

(ERR)



✔ ETV Intervjuu: Oleksin Empaatiavõimeline President

(ERR video: 15 minutid)



✔Kanal2 Intervjuu: Inimestele tuleb riigi otsused lahti seletada

(Kanal2 | Postimees)



✔ Eesti Päevaleht Intervjuu: Tulin veel eelmisel nädalal Eestisse teadmisega, et mind ei oota siin midagi

(EP)



✔ Fraktsioonid kinnitasid pressile toetust Kaljulaiule: üle 68 allkirja

(ERR video)
"Olen veennud riigikogu liikmeid ja nüüd jääb mul üle veenda Eestimaa rahvast.”



✔ Kaljulaid has enough support for both nomination and election

(ERR | Baltic Times)




✔ Kersti Kaljulaid sai riigikogus vajalikud toetushääled kokku

(Postimees)



✔ Saartsi sõnul peab Kaljulaid näitama oma võimekust ja õppima poliitiku rolli

(ERR)




- Kes on Kersti Kaljulaiu salapärane abikaasa Georgi-Rene Maksimovski?

(Õhtuleht | Ekspress)


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Tuesday 27. September, 2016


- Ingrid Puusta crosses the Baltic Sea on a windsurfer

(Surfer Today)
"The Estonian Olympic RS:X sailor traveled 100 nautical miles (185 kilometers) between the island of Farö, in Sweden, and Türju, in Estonia. Puusta kicked off her adventure at 7:37 am, and concluded the solo crossing in darkness at 9:25 pm. That's nearly 14 hours of windsurfing in rough seas."


- Defense consultant: Baltic terrain here is most defensible in Europe 

(Latvian Broadcasting) 


- Is This How We Will Be Remembered?

(Up North - Sofi Oksanen)
[An excellent article on Estonian WWII refugees.]

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Monday 26. September 2016


- Estonia again fails to elect new president; will try again October 3rd 

(Washington Post) 



- Saturday’s election fiasco a ‘disgraceful precedent’ 

(ERR) 
"The biggest Estonian newspapers wrote in their Monday editorials that the failed attempt at choosing the next president in the electoral college was a ‘disgraceful precedent’ and an absurd waste of resources." 



- After failed presidential vote, Joks, Kallas exit race 

(Baltic Times) 



- Political scientist: Ideally one presidential candidate runs in parliament 

(Baltic Times) 



- Arvamus: Kuidas peaks muutma presidendivalimiste süsteemi 

(Postimees) 


- 'At least five' EU states going soft on Russia, US says

(EU Observer)
"US vice-president Joe Biden: “I’ve never seen Europe in as much self-doubt in my career …"


- NATO: Alliance would help Finland in Baltic crisis situation

(Yle)


- No End In Sight for Russia's Baltic Tit-for-Tat

(Moscow Times)

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- Russia -

- Essays, analysis, opinions -

- Will the Sixth Finno-Ugric Festival in Udmurtia Be the Last? Officials Tighten the Screws

(Paul Goble)
"This is not the first such move against the Finno-Ugric nations living within the borders of the Russian Federation. In May, the authorities suddenly cancelled the showing of films by Estonian, Finnish and Hungarian directors, and subsequently, they blocked Finno-Ugric participation in an international conference."

"The Finno-Ugric peoples have two major advantages as they seek to defend their rights as nations. On the one hand, they can look to three Finno-Ugric nations which now have their own independent states, Estonia, Finland and Hungary, all of which have shown an intense interest in what Moscow does to their co-ethnics inside Russia."



- Russia and the Downing of MH17 

(Carnegie Europe | Time) 



- Soviet-Style Lines Reappearing in Moscow Stores 

(Window on Eurasia) 
"The long lines of Russians waiting to purchase the latest edition of i-phones have attracted some media attention (kasparov.ru/material.php?id=57E620ED1E72F), but lines at food stores and other outlets have generally been ignored by the media – even though for many Russians, this return of the Soviet past may cast a more immediate shadow on their lives." 



- The Mystery of Trump’s Man in Moscow: Advisor Carter Page 

(Politico) 
"For months now, the American press has been twisting itself in knots trying to explain men like Page and (Paul) Manafort, and, through them, to answer the questions of whether Putin is trying to destroy America by their hands, and is Trump a Kremlin stooge or a just a useful idiot, and is there even a difference?” 

"There doesn’t seem to be one in the world of Trump, which in some ways resembles Putin’s: the waters of truth are muddy and deeply suggestive. And that is all that matters. Is Putin actually meddling in our election and undermining the foundations of Western democracy in a massive way, or doing just enough to make us think he is and thereby acquiring powers he holds only because we believe him to have them?" 



- Russia’s Brutal Clinton-Bashing, Trump-Loving Election Coverage 

(The Daily Beast) 
"Thanks to relentless propaganda encouraged by the Kremlin, this is Trump country from St. Petersburg to Siberia." 

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