Alexander Lukashenko’s regime is weaker than ever after organizing an international act of terror and its fake Sochi visit, says Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and urges Estonians to write to political prisoners in Belarus.

Some in Europe are sometimes too impressed by the propaganda of autocratic countries, Martin Selmayr, head of the EU Commission Representation in Vienna, says when commenting on countries’ plans to procure Chinese or Russian vaccines.

We talked about Russia directly and at length, President Kersti Kaljulaid said when commenting on her Austria visit.

Estonia is banning Belarusian national airline Belavia from flying to its airports.

Minister of Finance Keit Pentus-Rosimannus has urged national energy company Eesti Energia not to make irreversible investments into the new Enefit-280 shale oil plant before the court rules on its building permit.

The finance minister has sent out for coordination a bill to exempt average pension from income tax. The opposition Isamaa party says the amendment was stuck behind the Center Party in the previous government.

Jaanus Rahumägi, a former politician and the owner of the private security company ESC Global Security, is seeking for an opportunity to get his firm involved in the study of the wreck of the ferry Estonia. Both the Estonia and the Swedish state all...

Britain's exit from the EU brought Vicky Brock, a well-known Scottish startup entrepreneur to Estonia. Her latest startup helps to combat unlawful trade over the Internet.

Krisli Melesk, a mountaineer and a traveler, accomplished one of her greatest dreams early Sunday (May 23) morning five minutes past six (Estonian time): she reached the summit of the world’s tallest mountain, the 8.848,86 meter Mount Everest.

Minister of Entrepreneurship and IT Andres Sutt (Reform Party) says that the Estonia-developed Covid-19 certificate or vaccination passport in popular slang opens the same opportunities not only for vaccinated people but also those having recovered f...

The National Audit Office report published on May 19 shows that the COVID-19 crisis support – be it aid, loan or guarantee – was generally used correctly: granted to those who most from the crisis and whose economic indicators were worse than tho...

Minister of Finance Keit Pentus-Rosimannus signed a decree on Monday allocating 1.6 million euros from the government reserve fund to the Safety Investigation Bureau (OJK) for underwater investigation of the wreck of the passenger ferry Estonia.

The number of charges as well as suspects related to the case of the savings and loan co-operative ERIAL increased on Sunday, May 16.

The Road Administration became a thing of the past this year. Now it is the Transport Administration, which is headed by Estonia’s highest-paid civil servant Kaido Padar for the past five months. And as the name hints, the new institution no longer...

The opportunity to book slots for vaccination via digital register was made available to those over 40 years of age late Wednesday (May 12) night. Vaccination seekers had crashed the digital registration system by Thursday morning and the resulting j...

An international investigation brought to court found IT talents residing in Estonia and Lithuania, who had provided services to an international network of cybercriminals. The US federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in cooperation with German, Brit...

Although the new coalition has begun to slow down the intensive development of four-lane highways, the railway’s dreams of faster connections live on. The plan to travel from Tallinn to Tartu within 1.5 hours in 2025 is alive and strong.

Valdo Kalm, a member of management board of the Port of Tallinn, would be happy to see the new opera house built on the waterfront yet the national opera seems uninterested.

Rasmus Kattai, an economist of the Bank of Estonia, said in an interview to Postimees that a debate over taxation is inevitable, since the expenses of the state have been exceeding revenues for a long time already.

The general indicators of the spreading of corona virus have flattened out, says Krista Fischer, a member of the Science Council and professor of mathematical statistics of Tartu University. However, when observing regions individually, infection is ...

Auditor General Janar Holm said in a live broadcast "Otse Postimehest", that it is reasonable to keep the vaccine stock, but questionable is, as much.

Prime Minister Kaja Kallas presented in early April the white book, according to which the corona virus situation in the society can be rated by a four-level colour code. While Estonia’s risk level was initially in the red zone and we reached the b...

The parliamentary Cultural Affairs Committee decided to recommend to the plenum that two regional projects should be declared cultural construction projects of national significance besides the two main favourites. This move brought the greatest publ...

The state budget strategy approved by the government on Thursday plans to make cuts amounting to 60.4 million euros. The ministries are trying to hide the precise places where the axe would fall, but some painful cuts are already clear.

Tallink, having reported a 34 million euro quarterly loss, is hopefully looking towards summer. Paavo Nõgene, chairman of the management board of Tallink Grupp, said that they hope to realize at least some plans prepared for the summer season.