Estonia’s political parties, largely due to the war in Ukraine, have reached an agreement about the need to increase defense spending and the minister of defense says that the ongoing war in Ukraine will have to show whether the national defense de...

A missile strike in Babyn Yar a few kilometers away from central Kyiv caused some damage to the city TV transmission tower and a couple of nearby buildings. Five people were killed.

The commander of the Ukrainian infantry company on positions in the outskirts of North Kyiv was full of fighting spirit yesterday: “I am totally confident of my men. Even if the Russians reach here, they will either die or become prisoners of war.â...

The largest children’s hospital in Kiev has removed nearly all of its little patients to a bomb shelter, where the parents have no space for sleeping.

Fierce battles took place near the outskirts of Ukrainian capital Kiev for the third day yesterday, but the Ukrainian army resists with great courage. The Russian forces had failed to enter the city anywhere by yesterday evening. The Ukrainians’ wi...

After Russian forces invaded the territory of the Chornobyl nuclear power station in northern Ukraine in the evening of February 24, radiation level spreading from the site increased twenty times.

President Alar Karis has held his post for approximately five months. He will make his first speech on the anniversary of the Republic of Estonia tomorrow (February 24). This anniversary will be again celebrated in a more modest manner due to the cor...

The positions of Estonia’s climate agreement, approved by the Riigikogu, are criticized for insufficient involvement of the parliament and non-existent analyses of impact.

Estonian President Alar Karis, who is currently on a working visit to Kyiv, said on Tuesday after his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Estonia stands by Ukraine in solidarity.

The state is building in the rural areas the most expensive possible Internet connection, but people do not access it because the price is too high and the already existing network is therefore underused, says the National Audit Office report publish...

Tuesday’s statement of Varro Vooglaid, the head of Foundation for the Protection of Family and Tradition (SAPTK) regarding the Estonian flag and Estonia’s statehood brought along widespread condemnation.

The latest sitting of the Tallinn City Council spelled out a fact which the officials have been stubbornly ignoring so far: the construction of the Tallinn Hospital in Lasnamägi district requires the removal of limestone in an amount equal to two ye...

Eesti Energia, the state-owned energy company, sent a letter to the European Commission asking whether the government’s plan to change the procedure of appointing supervisory board members of Elektrilevi is justified.

According to the Estonian Foreign Intelligence service information, Russia has currently insufficient forces for a full-scale occupation Ukraine and if President Vladimir Putin should decide to attack, the likely moves include seizing a smaller area ...

Unlike a number of Western nations, Estonia has not recommended or ordered its diplomats to leave Ukraine. According to Minister of Defense Kalle Laanet (Reform Party), this is primarily a message to Ukraine that we keep supporting them not only in p...

Although the Riigikogu passed a law amendment past Wednesday (February 9) preventing bailiffs from seizing electricity compensations, the applicants had already received the compensations which were then seized.

At the time when price rise is setting new records and old age pensioners can barely make their money last until the next pension payment day, some 5,000 of them who had their pensions delivered home had an unpleasant surprise – their pensions were...

The explosively spreading omicron strain of the corona virus has resulted in a serious labor problem in a number of sectors as workers have fallen ill or been forced to remain in isolation due to close contact with those infected.

The Toompea castle complex, troubled by utilities problems and high maintenance costs, could be repaired without much difficulty, a heritage protection analysis carried out by the Tallinn urban planning department shows. Yet before launching the over...

The Estonian servicemen dispatched to Poland during the migration crisis were a good example of the philosophy that Poland’s defense begins in Tallinn, says General Rajmund Andrzejczak, commander of the Polish army.

The demonstration against the corona-related restrictions, which began at the Sikupilli shopping centre, became violent at the end of the meeting as the police handcuffed a young man attempting to drive up to Toompea hill.

Having discussed the European security situation with the national Defense Council, President Alar Karis and Prime Minister Kaja Kallas agreed that although Estonia is not facing an immediate military threat, Russia’s threatening behavior towards U...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Saturday that the country is considering stationing another 900 troops and new weapons in Estonia.

Single mother Šolpan Begaidarova (30), raising three kids by herself in Kazakhstan’s largest city Almaty, can celebrate January 6 as her second birthday after she was hit by four bullets fired from a Kalashnikov assault rifle when on her way to bu...

The Tallinn Circuit Court on Wednesday sentenced Mikk Tarraste to life imprisonment.