LefteastAro Velmet is a PhD candidate in History at New York University. He is a regular contributor to several Estonian magazines and weeklies, most notably the cultural weekly Sirp, the magazineTeater.Muusika.Kino and the alternative popular culture magazine Müürileht. He is an occasional contributor for the Estonian Public Broadcasting. His academic research is on science and imperialism in the early twentieth century.
Estonia is not exactly the ideal place for anti-austerity movements these days. Its electorate overwhelmingly voted its center-right government back into power in 2011, right after three years of deep cuts, unemployment soaring from 4% to 16% and the sharpest drop in GDP in the entire European Union. To add insult to injury, the most […]