
Plus, the Slovak premier barely survives a showdown and Hungary’s red sludge company is ordered to pay up.

Plus, Estonia wins high marks for economic competitiveness and rich Russians wrap themselves in the Union Jack.
A clutch of films looks at music’s role in gnawing away at the foundations of the Soviet Union. From MusicFilmWeb.

The fall of the Soviet Union meant that some who had been citizens of the largest country on earth were now citizens of nowhere.

Words of wisdom from a few who helped make Estonia the high-tech and debt-free stronghold of Eastern Europe.

With a classic technique, Estonia’s premier is guiding the economy toward modest but sustainable success.

Estonian director Veiko Ounpuu challenges the global economic order with his surrealist Temptation of St. Tony.
Quick moves and a rainy-day fund set this Baltic country apart from its neighbors when the crash came.

Estonia bucks the bearish trend to win the EU’s blessing as the 17th member of the eurozone.

The Estonian government’s attempt to make journalists disclose their sources is taking so much flak, it’s hard to believe they will go ahead with it.