Stories about Estonia from November, 2010
Central & Eastern Europe: Initial Reactions to WikiLeaks’ Cablegate
While other regions feature a lot more prominently in the collection of U.S. embassy cables published by WikiLeaks thus far, a few countries of the CEE region do appear in the kickoff edition of Cablegate. Below is a small selection of initial reactions from the region's bloggers.
Estonia: Pensioners’ “Relative Wealth”
AnTyx does some “number-crunching” and concludes that “on average, British pensioners are 76% better off than Estonian ones.”
U.S.: Security in the Baltic Region
Belatedly, a link to the discussion of Barack Obama's contribution to security in the Baltic region – at Itching for Eestimaa.
Estonia: SDE's “Uphill Battle”
Itching for Eestimaa writes about “an uphill battle” that the Estonian Social Democratic Party and its new leader, 36-year-old Sven Mikser, are facing: “Most Estonian voters I have encountered are...
