Nordic Quizzing Championships Nordic Quizzing Championships The Nordic Quizzing Championships is a bi-annual quiz event in the Nordic and Baltic countries. Top quizzers from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Åland Islands, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are invited. The event includes three different competitions: An Individual Competition, a Team Competition, and a Pairs Competition. International Quizzing Association delegates from Estonia, Finland and Norway, meeting at the European Quizzing Championships in Blackpool in November 2007, began talks with a view to instituting a Nordic Championships. The first event was hosted by Tallinn, Estonia in 2008. In 2010 the competition was in Turku,
Human rights in Estonia used every international forum where the claims of the violations of human rights in Estonia have been presented. The United Nations Development Programme's forum Development and Transition has discussed the situation of Estonia and Latvia in 2005. James Hughes, a US sociologist from the Trinity College, claimed Latvia and Estonia are both states "captured by the titular ethnic groups", employing a "sophisticated and extensive policy regime of discrimination" against their respective Russophone populations. He names three "pillars" of discrimination: refusal of citizenship, language usage, and participation rights, and claims discrimination is constrained by the "economic dependence on Russophone labour". Nils