Estonian is same family as Finnish.
I like Estonia.
Apparently, they wanted to change the internationally recognised name to Estland.
Dunno what came of that, though.
That's rather strange. "Estland" is the Scandinavian word for it. I figured the word in their own language would be something sounding more like Suomi or Ruotsi (Finland and Sweden respectively in Finnish, for those who do not know), and that they would like to change the name to that.
edit: Realised I could check it out myself just after I posted it. Wikipedia says it's "Eesti". Strange that they would not want it to be this. Are you sure it wasn't some sort of Estonia-Swedish nationalists or something?
They do have a Swedish minority there left since the "Imperial" era. Perhaps it's since the Viking colonisationary times, even, but I kinda doubt it. Regardless, it got hit pretty badly by the Soviet "occupation" and is diminishing now. Estonian Swedish is a dying language.
Estonia is a completely different world than Lithuania and Latvia. Doesn't really matter, we're going bankrupt soon and there are a few countries that want our lands. South is probably going to belong to Poland ("Wilno nasze" and all that shit), east is going to belong to Russia (USSR and all that shit) and the North is going to belong to Sweden (no idea why, but it's a known fact that they want our lands).
Edit: And oddly, no one really wants Latvia. Maybe Russia?
We don't want any of it, it's just our banks that want all your moneys.
Swedbank pretty much screwed Estonia('s economy) in a "miniature" way, the same way the world was screwed over by the Big Players before the big crash. They completely lost all credibility in Sweden for their business actions and how badly they dealt with it, both abroad and at home. Now they're marketing themselves as the Trustworthy Company, Always Thinking About the Customers First and Always Planning for the Long Run. Yeah right. Such a waste of a
beautiful logo.