While the first eight days of the MS Estonia private expedition were spent studying the MS Estonia wreck using sonar and AUVs, divers took to the seabed to study damage to the starboard side of the hull on Sunday.

Lithuania has become the dominant Baltic country in terms of foreign policy at least as far as the media picture is concerned. Chairman of the Riigikogu Foreign Affairs Committee Marko Mihkelson (Reform) tells Postimees in an interview that a small c...

German diver Jakob Olszewski is known as the person who has been to the wreck of MS Estonia the most times, having seen the wreck on six dives. Olszewski is also a member of Margus Kurm’s SA Mare Liberum expedition where he heads the four-member te...

The decision to bring political newcomers Kristian Jaani and Eva-Maria Liimets to the government came across as a refreshing surprise in January. Warnings of what will happen when career officials are turned into politicians have now manifested at le...

Research vessel RS Sentinel is estimated to reach the site of MS Estonia’s sinking on Wednesday morning. The team’s first job will be to survey the seafloor using a multibeam sonar followed by a closer look at items surrounding the wreck to deter...

Prime Minister and head of the Reform Party Kaja Kallas toured Harju County on September 17. She met with the Lääne-Harju Cooperation Assembly and gave Postimees a short interview. We went over Kallas’ agenda and planned changes to the state budg...

The research group SA Mare Liberum created at the initiative of the relatives of those killed in the Estoniadisaster today will set off from the port of Eemshaven in the Netherlands on the research vessel RS SENTINEL on an expedition to the site of E...

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.