Officials sometimes seem stiff and slow during crises but they have been trained to display these qualities and this is important to ensure the stability of the laws. However, officials should practice the change of roles necessary in crisis situatio...

As the Russian forces began their offensive in Ukraine at night on February 24, it triggered a flow of refugees, which has brought more than 28,000 people to Estonia, including Olexandra Pisorenko and Kateryna Shchetinina.

Russian units entered the Yakhidne village in North Ukraine, fifteen kilometers towards Kyiv from the city of Chernihiv, on March 3. Within three days they forced most of the villagers, 360 people, to hide in the Soviet-era civil defense shelter unde...

President of Russia Vladimir Putin now needs at any cost some kind of victory in Ukraine. His main objective is to take Mariupol, which the Ukrainian army no longer can directly supply, Oleksi Arestovych, one of closest advisors of Ukrainian Presiden...

China has chosen Russia’s side in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Similarly, China is ever vigorously criticizing the European security architecture.

Graves of local residents can now be found in many yards of Bucha. Burying in the yards was the only way during the Russian occupation. Otherwise the dead bodies in the yards and apartments would have simply decayed. Even burying the dead in the yard...

Hemingway wrote in his book on the Spanish Civil War that one of the hardest things was to see men crying as their friends were killed. Somebody’s friend is killed in Ukraine every day.

Some Italian geography textbooks depict not only Estonia but also Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova as part of Russia. The error is being corrected.

While Russia is threatening to turn off gas supply unless buyers pay them in rubles, European countries are racing to find ways for escaping from energy dependence which is feeding the war.

It is likely that Estonia has to prepare for massive immigration from Russia at the end of the year and unlike the Ukrainians intending to return home the Russians will want to leave Putin’s regime behind for good.

Brovary, the eastern suburb of Kyiv, has been an uneasy place since the beginning of the war. You can still hear gunshots from that direction. But Khokholiv, which is located approximately twenty kilometers away, used to be a peaceful village in the ...

The draft to compulsory military service will begin in Russia next week and it might turn into a kind of referendum over the Russian army and authorities, since many parents will do everything they can to keep their sons from fighting in Ukraine, Pav...

I feel anxiety and anger because I know that there are two people in my class who support Putin. There is turmoil inside me, says Margot Lehtsalu, who is studying in the Tallinn Grammar School of Arts and wears a blue-yellow ribbon in Ukraine’s sup...

The Tallinn Urban Planning Department invite the residents of Nõmme district to attend the discussion on the operating license of the Valdeku Street crematorium which only involved various options for legalizing the license.

Today’s sitting of the Riigikogu discussed establishing more flexible regulations on work- and study-related migration from third countries, which would, among other aspects, simplify the involvement of Ukrainian refugees in the labor market. The p...

The Confido medical center was again summoned to give explanations – because staff members hastily hired from among refugee medics are paid less than their Estonian colleagues. The first case concerned the company’s decision to vaccinate everybod...

Olexandr Milyukov, head of the Ukrainian Federation of Tactical Shooting sent a letter to his European colleagues early morning on February 24: Russia has started a war against Ukraine; Russia should be expelled from the world organization of practic...

Minister of Defense Kalle Laanet (Reform Party) yesterday submitted to Prime Minister Kaja Kallas (Reform) a package of recommendations for strengthening the military defense of the country. It is desirable that all procurements be completed within t...

The restoration of houses, hospitals, schools and thousands of other objects of civilian infrastructure destroyed by the Russian armed forces in Ukraine will probably cost dozens and dozens of billions of euros which, according to Estonian experts of...

Members of the Jewish community of Odessa suffer from the terror of war like all other Ukrainians. Out of approximately four thousand Jews, only barely five hundred, mostly elderly, have stayed behind in the port city.

Thirteen infants who were born immediately before the war or during it are spending their first days of life in the bomb shelter of the Kharkiv regional hospital’s maternity center.

The Russian Embassy is warning against acts of violence, which never happened, but a whole bunch of comrades considers it necessary to spread that message. There are enough of those still willing to justify Putin’s aggression against Ukraine. And t...

Journalists of Postimees spent one day in Ukraine’s capital with the members of the right-wing organization “Pravyi Sektor” (Right Sector) to see how they are helping Kyiv’s residents in their homes, in shelters, hospitals or at defense posit...

Postimees had an opportunity yesterday to interview a 37-year-old Russian prisoner-of war (POW). “I do not ant the war. I want home. Please take me back home!” he said on a quiet and shaking voice.

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...