Postimees was met with startled looks, uneasy smiles and angry remarks when it accompanied the Health Board and the police on a raid of Tallinn cafes. The authorities were checking compliance with the obligation to ask customers to produce COVID-19 v...

Criminal suspicions were brought against members of the board of the Rural Development Foundation (MES) Raul Rosenberg and Madis Reinup on Wednesday. Both were in charge of allocating crisis support at the height of the coronavirus crisis.

All government ministers with the exception of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas and Minister of Education and Research Liina Kersna plan to run in the October local government council elections. Of the 13 ministers running in the elections, none plan to ta...

President Kersti Kaljulaid urged MPs to be more active in her final Riigikogu fall session speech.

Monday marks the start of the sixth session of the XVI Riigikogu. After successfully electing Estonia’s next president, MPs are now looking at the third readings of outstanding bills.

The Health Board believes hobby schools opening for the season could translate into a spike in new coronavirus cases despite the reproduction rate for minors falling. The number of care home, educational institution and workplace outbreaks is growing...

The private MS Estonia expedition set to get underway nine days from now will also survey the inside of the wreck of the ferry, head of the initial MS Estonia disaster investigation and coordinator of the recent effort Margus Kurm said on the “Otse...

The SA Mare Liberum fund that was established upon an initiative of close relatives of people who died in the sinking of MS Estonia organises a privately initiated expedition to the wreck of the ferry, the goal of which is to find answers to question...

On 8 September, at 11 a press conference will take place in Omega Hall of Radisson Blu Hotel Olümpia, at which leading participants in the SA Mare Liberum fund will talk about a new independent expedition to the wreck of the Estonia ferry.

Head of the initial MS Estonia ferry disaster investigative committee Margus Kurm is leading a new expedition that will depart for the site in ten days. The aim of the private sponsors-backed expedition is to determine why the ferry sank.

Director of the Health Board Üllar Lanno handed his resignation to Minister of Health and Labor Tanel Kiik on Monday morning.

The coronavirus epicenter is in Southern Estonia. Head of Health Board South Tiia Luht told Postimees that epidemiological monitoring suggests the virus is spreading with the help of people who go to work or attend events while already exhibiting sym...

Writer and journalist Arkadi Babchenko, who become world-famous in late May 2018 when it was announced that the fierce Putin critic had been killed in Kiev, has been in Estonia since late summer. Some time later, the Ukrainian security service said i...

One should not be fooled by the meek disposition of Deputy Secretary General of the Ministry of Social Affairs Heidi Alasepp (49) who took office Wednesday – she is one of only a handful of Estonian women to have visited conflict zones in Afghanist...

The National Audit Office report “Accuracy and legality of transactions in state accounting in 2020” that was published on Tuesday revealed that all summary accounts of costs, expenses, investments and financing transactions in the 2020 state bud...

Former Auditor General, Director of the Estonian National Museum Alar Karis was elected the next president of Estonia with 72 votes of the 68 required on Tuesday. Karis will take office as president in October.

The first round of the 2021 presidential election did not see the 101-member parliament elect former Auditor General, Director of the Estonian National Museum Alar Karis Estonia’s next president.

The Estonian and Latvian prime ministers opened yesterday in Kilingi-Nõmme a high-voltage power line which could be doubtlessly described as the most beautiful in Estonia.

Irja Lutsar, Professor of virology and head of the Science Council, said in the Postimees direct broadcast that the effect of vaccines will weaken over time in case of Covid-19 infections of low and medium severity. “The weakening occurs steadily e...

Yesterday, August 23, was the 32nd anniversary of the Baltic Way human chain which drew attention to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, and people gathered again for the occasion. However, the organizers of the Baltic Way could not understand the motive of...

A large number of investments have recently arrived in Estonia from Germany. The best known of these is Volkswagen's intra-group billion-euro investment in the software development business CARIAD. In 2020 Volkswagen chose Estonia as one of its locat...

Perfume creator Tõnu Veiler who brought out his first niche perfume collection last week, hopes to reach the French shops as early as in September. The French were impressed by his packages alone but the aromas definitely convinced them.

In 2013–2016, more precisely for two years and three months, with the regimen of two months at work and two weeks at home, Tarmo Miilits worked as the deputy head of the European Union Afghan police mission (EUPOL).

The Taliban Islamic movement announced its victory over the Afghan government in the presidential palace on Sunday evening. The chaos and fear in the country keep increasing every moment. Estonia’s ambassador to NATO Jüri Luik believes that the ne...

The Taliban forces reconquered Afghanistan very quickly. Once it became clear that the USA and its allies will irreversibly withdraw, the Afghan army lost all combat capability and the two decades of struggle which also saw the Estonians’ participa...