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An Intellectual Casino Published Postimees 15 October 2012 Imagine an animal. It is grey, has eight arms, a primitive brain, and suckers, lives in the sea. It looks like an octopus, it's mother and father are octopuses, its children are octopuses. But it is not an octopus. Let's call it a non-octopus. Now imagine an investment firm. It has grown at a phenomenon rate over 10 years. Its sleekly dressed, oily, smooth talking, Russian-speaking owners make huge amounts of money. Most of its customers lose money and they lose ALL their money. But lets not call it a scam, let's call in a respectable brokerage company working hard to make money for it clients. It is not in any case an octopus. Tallinn is the global headquarters for a venerable institution, which for legal purposes we will call Non-octopus Forex company. It is all part of the retail forex market which in Estonia is controlled by Russian-speaking Estonian who started out in the 90s. They allied

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In English A first for Estonia: An elected Black Politician Christian Science Monitor 26 Oct 2013 Turay to take seat on Tallinn city council  Published ERR 22 Oct 2012 Mixed Results for Tallinn City Council  Published ERR 21 Oct 2012  The expat running for city council  Published ERR 16 August 2013  Estonian gets its first Black candidate for city councillor Published ERR 16 August 2013  Interview with Estonian World  6 June 2013 Estonia World  Eesti Keeles I am not a natural social democrat Eesti Päevaleht 25 October 2013 Abdul Turay joins the Social Democratic Party Postimees 24 October 2013  Social Democrats send Abdul Turay to the city Council  Eesti Päevaleht 23 October 2013  Abdul Turay gets into the City Council Postimees 22 Oct 2013 I will represent the views of the whole community in government Postimees 16 August 2013 Kross: we were also interested in Turay Postimees 16 August 2013  Abdul Turay to be a candidate for the social d

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The Great Migration Published Postimees  13 Sept 2012 Recently, I asked a group of young people, if they have Facebook accounts. They looked at me like I was mad. "That's like asking us, do we have a noses?" one of them said. "Come to think of it even people who don't have noses have Facebook accounts," another said to much laughter. Last week 6 th July, Kanal 2 did a program "Minu Facebooki sõbrad". It was a light hearted look at the social network phenomenon. But the whole Facebook is king challenges some of our cherished beliefs about modern Estonia. 10 years ago when I first visited here, Estonia was more advanced than my own country the United Kingdom. It was a revelation. Estonia was my introduction to whole concept of social networking. Rate.ee was founded in May 2002, that's a year before Orkut, or MySpace, two years before Facebook. I so wasn't impressed when I first saw Facebook. "So

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Two Tribes By Abdul Turay Published Postimees 13 August 2012 A couple of years ago, I went along with my wife to a manor house in the heart of England which every August, for the last 30 years, has been a jamboree (Rahvapidu) for the Estonian community in Britain. I expected a celebration of Estonian culture in Britain. Singing, dancing, selling handicrafts and Estonian foods; that sort of thing. I discovered, two tribes gone to war. The foreign Estonians (Väliseestlased) believe they have worked to preserve and promote Estonian culture for over 60 years, not only in the UK but in the other four Väliseestlased communities, Sweden, the USA, Canada and Australia. Here was their view of new Estonian immigrants to Britain. “We don't mix with them at all, we don't socialise, we don't even understand them. It's like apartheid,” said one of them, who understandably didn't want to be name. The story of Estonians in Britain is an inte