A vulnerability in the images service of Estonia's personal identification documents database allowed a hacker to download the photos of nearly 300,000 Estonians whose names and personal identification codes they already had.

Prime Minister Kaja Kallas (Reform Party) tells Postimees in an interview that she does not know whether Minister of Culture Anneli Ott (Center Party) is vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Estonia is looking at a fine warning of €100,000 a day similarly to Poland unless it stops destroying protected forests. The Ministry of the Environment allows protected areas to be raided and Deputy Secretary General Marku Lamp and State Forest Ma...

Like most airlines, Estonia’s Nordica has also taken a beating in the crisis. Passenger figures fell manyfold last year, with the company generating a loss of over €10 million. State aid in the volume of €30 million was secured to stay in the a...

This Wednesday saw ferry Tõll ram the slip at the Port of Kuivastu, leaving the residents of Estonia’s largest island Saaremaa with one fewer ferry. Operator TS Laevad decided to pull the Hiiumaa ferry Tiiu that carries 150 cars and have it servic...

The collective labor dispute between the Estonian Nurses’ Union (EÕL) and employers is showing no signs of nearing a solution as even the public conciliator failed to bring about a compromise. Negotiations between nurses and employers were held be...

The Center Party on Tuesday discussed the investigation into misuse of official resources by former Education Minister Mailis Reps and decided that the party will need to elect a new Riigikogu group head. Reps will also not continue as Center’s dep...

Even though the first justice minister of re-independent Estonia Jüri Raidla was the ruling coalition’s favorite for president, the former politician turned down the offer.

The next chapter in former Education Minister Mailis Reps’ (Center) official benefits scandal has seen more than a few people ask whether Reps should leave behind not only the position of Center’s Riigikogu group head but politics altogether.

Diplomat Jüri Luik, who has also held several prominent political positions in the last 30 years, is being considered for president. Our conversation did not linger on the topic long, however, as Luik said that to the best of his knowledge, correspo...

The experienced diver, who has been to the wreck of M/S Estonia for six times, says that Finland should know if anyone has visited the wreck in 2019–2021.

A large share of rent and commercial space of the Tallinn Old Town is for sale since there are no tourists and the entrepreneurs are trying to get rid of excessive burden. It is estimated that there are five times less visitors in the Old Town than b...

The sixth day of investigation of the wreck of the ferry Estonia saw an amazing discovery: the ramp, which was closed in the 2019 Norwegian documentary as well as the official diving videos of 1994, was now found to be fully open.

The ongoing investigation reveals that there are further cracks in the hull of the ferry Estonia. The Swedish have long been aware of it but decided to share the knowledge only now.

The heat is oppressing both plant and animal farmers but the situation in different ends of Estonia may look like night and day.

Urmo Aava, director of Rally Estonia competitions and one of the three main organizers, assures that their motivation is still strong, although they have been arranging the high-level event for more than a decade.

The Schengen area is under threat and the European Commission tends to be toothless in stopping countries from re-establishing border control, a European Parliament report warns.

The listing of the technology firm Wise on the London stock exchange is a testimony of an Estonian success story and proves the necessity of innovation in economy.

Estonian Ambassador to Lithuania Kai Kaarelson says that despite its extraordinary challenge, Lithuania will not collapse.

Documents about the founding of Wise differ from the real story. According to the documents submitted by Wise, Kristo Käärmann entered in the England and Wales registry of enterprises on March 31, 2010 the enterprise Exchange Solutions with a share...

Lithuania’s first and last king Mindaugas was crowned approximately thirty years after the end of Estonia’s ancient struggle for freedom, in 1253. This day, July 6, is celebrated as the day of Lithuania’s statehood since the 1990s. The migrants...

While all Health Board officials initially knew that their alarm system should report temperature changes in the cold storage facility all the time, a super-administrator had reset the warning to only off-duty hours in 2019 without their knowledge. W...

Labor shortage is on the rise in Estonia and an increasing number of sectors have trouble finding workforce, the Unemployment Insurance Fund labor barometer and the CVKeskus labor market survey showed yesterday. The corona crisis support measures hav...

The migration pressure from Belarus, which has been increasingly affecting Lithuania in recent days, provokes the question about Estonia’s opportunities to help Lithuania cope with the increasingly critical situation. And should Estonia also increa...

Forget about suitcases with double bottoms, swallowing of capsules with narcotics or packs taped to the body – drug trafficking is much less complicated these days. A few clicks with the computer mouse and a courier will bring a package containing ...