Sunday marked polling day of the 2021 local government council elections in Estonia. Preliminary results put voter turnout at 54.7 percent, with record 275,587 votes cast electronically between Monday and Saturday. People supported election coalition...

Minister of Finance Keit Pentus-Rosimannus said that confirmation from the Competition Authority means it is virtually certain Estonia will pay part of the electricity transmission fee for all consumers and offer less fortunate households additional ...

President Alar Karis’ meetings with President of Latvia Egils Levits and Finnish President Sauli Niinistö were postponed due to Covid.

The police will be paying more attention to companies’ obligation to ask patrons to produce Covid certificates in order to contain the spread of the virus.

The Estonian National Museum will be run by the outgoing head of the Estonian Cultural Endowment Kertu Saks who takes a deep and personal interest in cultural history and especially folklore and considers museums and visitors’ centers her specialty...

A major political storm is brewing in Lithuania concerning a barbed wire tender from Estonia.

Estonia’s COVID-19 scientific advisory committee recommends ramping up control over compliance with coronavirus measures – masks and the digital Covid certificate. Another proposal concerns issuing short-term certificates of having recovered from...

In his first speech to the Riigikogu, President Alar Karis said that an intelligent people had been one of his ideals before he became president.

Kersti Kaljulaid gave her last interview as president in a room that used to be the office of a chief militia constable in Soviet days. The venue, while chosen quite incidentally, illustrates one of Kaljulaid’s theses: it took someone making decisi...

Mayoral candidates for the Tallinn opposition want to contrast to the Center Party despite sporting similar visions for the capital’s future.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen visited Tallinn on Tuesday to give Estonia’s recovery and resilience plan, pledging around one billion euros for investments and reforms by 2026, the green light.

Monday will mark the start of local government council elections in Estonia. There are no direct restrictions or obligations at the first elections to be held in Estonia in the conditions of COVID-19.

Postimees visited the border of Afghanistan on the Pyandzh River and joined local men in observing the Taliban on the opposite bank who have promised not to attack their compatriots in Tajikistan.

While recent years have revealed two holes in the starboard side of the hull of sunken passenger ferry MS Estonia, the private Mare Liberum expedition discovered a third opening on Thursday morning.

Today the expedition organized by the SA Mare Liberum completed the underwater and exploration works at the site of the Estonia ferry disaster and began its return journey to the port of Eemshaven.

Hydrographer Peeter Ude, working as part of the private MS Estonia expedition, has not yet found the shipping containers he believes lie next to the wreck of MS Estonia. However, an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) piloted by Ude happened upon thr...

The rebels in Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley are taking advantage of discord between groups inside Taliban and paying its members to keep supply routes open, former Afghanistan soldier Abdul Mateen Farhang tells Postimees.

An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) sent to the car deck of the sunken ferry MS Estonia on Sunday managed to film car deck doors leading to lower passenger decks two of which are intact and closed.

MS Estonia survivor Jüri Vask, who used to work in the passenger ferry’s tax-free shop, said on the “Otse Eloga” webcast on Monday that he developed nightmares years after the disaster.

This morning at 6 o'clock the crew of the expedition organized by SA Mare Liberum gathered on the deck for a moment of silence in memory of the victims of the Estonia ferry disaster, which sank in the Baltic Sea on that day 27 years ago.

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...