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The prime minister of Estonia, Andrus Ansip, was a featured speaker at the Hoover Institution retreat November 29 and 30. In his talk, “How a Former Soviet Satellite Became One of the World’s Most Free Economies,” Ansip said that “freedom means something very special to Estonians. Freedom for us means the right to decide our own future; the right to run our own affairs, in both the political and economic sense; we know what it’s like to live without freedom; and we know that freedom is not free.”

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Thursday, February 5, 2026
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The Broken China Dream: How to Reform Revived Totalitarianism
The Hoover Institution Program on the US, China, and the World invites you to The Broken China Dream: How to Reform Revived Totalitarianism on … Shultz Auditorium, George P. Shultz Building
Monday, February 9, 2026
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Navigating International Research Partnerships In Choppy Geopolitical Waters - The Swedish Experience
The Hoover Institution Program on the US, China, and the World invites you to Navigating International Research Partnerships in Choppy Geopolitical… Herbert Hoover Memorial Building, Room 160
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
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America At 250: Classical Heritage, Western Civilization, The Future
COLLEGE 102 and the Hoover Institution host America at 250: Classical Heritage, Western Civilization, the Future on Wednesday, February 11, 2026,… Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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