The Riigikogu Constitutional Committee on Sunday decided to send the marriage referendum bill to its second reading with four individual motions to amend pertaining to marriage and a so-called obstruction cluster made up of the opposition’s remaini...

A grand funeral was held in Põlva in January of 1981. Despite extraordinarily cold weather, the cemetery was full of people. Many looked on from afar. The funeral was for Jr. Sgt. Enn Valli who was not yet 22 when he died as the first Estonian Sovie...

Minister of Defense Jüri Luik (Isamaa) says that isolating defense from political currents is one of the trump cards of national security in Estonia. The minister also says that the threat of NATO disbanding has disappeared and that the new year wil...

Postimees’ Person of the Year 2020 Dr. Arkadi Popov said on the “Otse Postimehest” webcast on Tuesday that the Health Board’s crisis center had an activity plan in place for the second wave of COVID-19. “There need to be plans on every leve...

Director of the Health Board Üllar Lanno would like to realign the agency to be able to handle any situation, also during crisis time. Secondly, he deems it important to renew the board’s databases and get an overview of the situation of ambulance...

The new year’s first episode of the “Räägime asjast” talk show on Tre Raadio did not differ much from the one that cost Mart Helme the post of interior minister in November. This time parliamentary elections in Lithuania were at the heart of ...

The Riigikogu opposition has loaded its attempt to kill the coalition’s marriage referendum draft resolution with 9,480 motions to amend that were handed over to the Riigikogu Constitutional Committee on Wednesday. Voting on individual motions to a...

Minister of Education and Research Jaak Aab (Center) has made a proposal to the COVID-19 scientific council and the government to return to contact study in most Estonian schools after the Christmas break. Exceptions will be left in place for Harju a...

Estonia’s COVID-19 immunization target of making vaccination freely available by June is unrealistic considering current vaccine quantities.

The first person vaccinated against COVID-19 in Estonia is resident doctor at the Ida-Viru Central Hospital Jelena Rozinko (24) who has been treating coronavirus patients since September and finds that her specialization as an infectious diseases spe...

The heads of state of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czechia, Poland, Romania and Slovenia made a joint statement today expressing their support to Maia Sandu, the new President of the Republic of Moldova and her extensive plan to restructure the countr...

The Estonian government will impose extensive COVID-19 restrictions in Harju County and extend the measures already in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in Ida-Viru County.

Head of Communications for the Health Board Simmo Saar will be forced to resign after he was identified to be behind anonymous criticism of Estonia’s inoculation plan.

I met with Prime Minister Jüri Ratas in Stenbock House on Friday, or the day after the government’s final press conference of 2020, to sum up the outgoing year. Even though the interview had been in the pipeline for some time, the PM’s busy sche...

Tallinn’s Social Democrats are making preparations for local elections in 2021 and working on a nightlife strategy for the capital that should help entertainment and culture establishments find their feet again quickly once Covid measures end.

The government unveiled Estonia’s vaccination plan on Tuesday. Even though exact quantities and dates were not provided, the first doses of vaccine should reach Estonia in early January, while inoculation of risk groups might not commence before sp...

Following several hours of questions and answers, the Riigikogu on Monday decided to send the marriage referendum draft resolution to its second reading where it might nevertheless stay for good.

CEO of Wolt Baltic Liis Ristal says that the company will try to expand as far as profitability will allow in Estonia. The food delivery service has done brilliantly in Tallinn and Tartu and will be setting its sights on smaller cities now.

It has been a busy year for SYNLAB laboratories. CEO Rainar Aamisepp says that the company has been working 24/7 in three shifts for the past nine months. SYNLAB laboratories have analyzed over eight million tests around 10 percent of which tied to t...

The government decided on Wednesday to lay down additional restrictions to slow the spread of COVID-19. All Ida-Viru County entertainment establishments will have to close doors from Saturday. Public events will be banned in the county for three week...

Estonian Prime Minister Juri Ratas said in a social media post on Wednesday that the government, acting on the basis of a recommendation of the Scientific Council and the Health Board to bring contacts between people to a minimum and reduce the movem...

Chief of medicine for the North Estonia Medical Center (PERH), member of the government’s COVID-19 scientific council Peep Talving would put basic schools in Ida-Viru, Harju and Tartu counties on remote learning from next Monday at the latest and c...

Recent Ministry of Foreign Affairs business diplomacy bureau adviser Imre Sooäär said after a week of mulling it over on Monday that he will join the Riigikogu as the alternate member of Center MP Kalev Kallo who was convicted of corruption offense...

The Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service (EFIS) has allowed an active intelligence officer to give an interview for the first time since Estonia regained its independence. The interview took place following strict secrecy rules and Postimees did not...

It is not clear yet whether the first reading of the marriage referendum bill will be concluded and the draft resolution sent to its second reading in the Riigikogu. In favor of scrapping the initiative are the opposition Reform Party and Social Demo...