The evidence so far is that Slovenes talk like Estonians, but act like Austrians.
Estonian military records show that 1, 652 local soldiers, both ethnic Estonians and Russians, served in Afghanistan.
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Finns are starting to shop in cheaper Estonia as Estonians are finding jobs in Helsinki.
In the referendum on September 14th, Estonians voted yes, albeit only by two to one.
While the company was founded by a Swede and a Dane, it was built by Estonians.
Filing an annual tax return online, as 80% of Estonians do, takes a few minutes.
Tallinn is the centre of NATO's cyber-warfare research, and Estonians invented another icon of internet cool: Skype.
Estonians hope that the banks (almost all foreign-owned) have learned from the past.
The Finns have special links to the Estonians, the Swedes to the Latvians and the Danes to the Lithuanians.
On the site, Estonians can comment on government policies, both domestic and foreign.
For many Estonians, surrendering hard-won sovereignty to another supranational body grates too.
Estonians are fearful that the facility, scheduled to be completed by 1995, will take traffic away from ports located in the Baltic states.
More strangely still, Mr. Theroux says little about the fraught relations between ethnic Estonians and the large Russian minority that Soviet rule left behind.
As of this week, they own yet again with over 30, 000 of 940, 000 eligible Estonians casting virtual ballots in the world's first online parliamentary election.
But Estonians worry about lawlessness, even banditry, spilling over the border.
Estonians and Latvians fear the dispute may block better road, rail and power links to the south-east that will end their isolation from the rest of Europe.
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Bernier opened the scoring in the second leg against Tallin, Fetai set up the second of Bernburg's double, while Dahl and Pode completed the misery for the Estonians.
The thought of sharing their currency with Poles and Estonians may make the Germans and French queasy, but it is hard to see how they can avoid it.
But the go-ahead Estonians are already scenting the next challenge.
Many Estonians still think that whatever the West promises they, like their grandparents, may at some point have to fight a partisan war against a foreign (read Russian) invader.
Sixteen Estonians and at least 22 Russians were killed.
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This last ranking put American kids not just behind the Chinese, the Koreans, and the Singaporeans but also after the French, the Austrians, the Hungarians, the Slovenians, the Estonians, and the Poles.
Estonians themselves fret about corruption and government complacency.
Many Estonians claim that, whenever they soften one aspect of a law meant to make ethnic Russians prove a knowledge of Estonian if they want citizenship, Mr Van der Stoel comes up with another objection.
Compared with Estonians brought up in Estonia, Mr Ilves was lucky: his parents managed to flee, first to Sweden, where he was born in 1953, then on to the United States, where he grew up.
Ambitious Estonians, however, sometimes overlook deeper problems.
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