The fate of the Baltic countries was decided during seven days in August 1991; Hannes H. Gissurarson, a professor of politics at the University of Iceland, recalls the events as they unfolded as Iceland became the first nation to recognize the independence of the Baltic states.
The biggest cloud hanging over the Estonian tech sector – a shortage of ICT professionals – is being tackled at Jõhvi coding school (known as kood/Jõhvi in Estonia), in the true spirit of the startup sector, guided by an ethos of learning on the go and aiming high. Tejas Anil Shah reports on the past, present and future of the bootcamp style coding school that opened its doors in the predominantly Russian-speaking Ida-Virumaa region in 2021.
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