Representatives of the Estonian parties do not believe that President Alar Karis would announce extraordinary elections in case of vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Kaja Kallas (RE).

Aivo Peterson, who is presenting himself as a manual therapist and massage treatment provider, and Oleg Ivanov, who declared himself involvement last year after involvement in oil and crypto-currency business, have been active for the past two months...

Only six months ago, political commentators talked about how the weak speeches of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas (RE) dragged down the ratings of the whole party. Today, foreign media calls her the Iron Lady of Europe, and some publications believe that ...

The architect Andrus Kõresaar and conductor Tõnu Kaljuste, the arts director of the Birgitta Festival, last week presented at the Pirita district council the idea of building a roof over the ruins of the Pirita monastery.

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, leader of the Reform Party, announced on Friday afternoon that she has made a proposal to the president to dismiss Center Party ministers Jaak Aab, Tanel Kiik, Eva-Maria Liimets, Taavi Aas, Kristian Jaani, Erki Sa...

The Harju County Court on Friday convicted Gerli Mutso of two offenses against the state and one drug related offense and sentenced her to eight years and six months in prison.

The draft act on pre-primary education was withdrawn from the proceedings of the Riigikogu with the votes of the Center Party and EKRE (the Social Democrats indirectly contributed to it by failing to vote). In plain speech – the bill of transition ...

Minister Liina Kersna (RE) signed last autumn two agreements for the purchase of rapid tests for schools; the large-scale breach of laws became apparent quickly enough, but formal response took an unacceptably long time and opened an opportunity for ...

We are probably viewing the last days of this government. Formally it should take a few more steps but both the Reform Party and the Center Party have positioned themselves in such a way that escaping the government crisis has become increasingly unl...

Individual finds across Estonia last year show that yet another alien species is settling down in the country. This species is the is the Asian ladybeetle or the harlequin, whose various negative features include the unpleasant habit of invading livi...

Alar Tupp had been in the University of Tartu clinic for a week, the doctors had examined him every way, but found nothing. Until a young doctor said there was another option left: capsule endoscopy.

The alleged motivation for the rise of family benefits that drove the government's relationship to breaking point is to alleviate the impact of price increase. But dumping several hundred million euros in the economy can give the opposite effect. And...

The supervisory board of Tallinna Linnatranspordi AS (Tallinn Public Transport Company – TLT) terminated the employment of Deniss Borodich, chairman of the management board, and Otto Popel, member of the management board, due to loss of confidence.

After an article published in Postimees about the suspicious origin of Tanker's new beers, the Agriculture and Food Board (PTA) initiated proceedings and it turned out that the brewing had taken place in part in the infamous Lithuanian Kalnapilis fac...

Four political parties of the Riigikogu want to double the amount for children’s benefits, especially in the support to families with three or more children. The politicians’ goal is to increase the number of childbirths with the money injection ...

Recent excavations inside the St. Nicholas Church in Tallinn and next to the building brought several pleasant surprises to archaeologists in the form of well-preserved funerals.

Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, Chairperson of the Reform Party, lost her nerve on Thursday. The Reform Party obviously opposed from the start the bill of raising children’s support, which the Center Party has unexpectedly bought out, and the party had...

The Ministry of the Environment wants to shift the obligation to deal with marine polluters in anchoring areas fully to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications (MKM), whose officials believe that the proposal makes no sense.

Companies transporting petroleum products, including a firm owned by Russia’s Gazprom Neft, want extra anchorages from the Estonian state for servicing tankers; former minister for environment Marko Pomerants (Isamaa) of the Powerhouse PR firm is l...

Earlier this week, Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz announced in a long interview to Germany’s public broadcaster ZDF that he had no plans to travel to Kyiv after the Ukrainians refused to receive German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier last mont...

Alari Möldre, Judge of the Harju Country Court, fined two journalists of the Eesti Ekspress weekly for releasing the information about former management of Swedbank being suspected of money laundering.

Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), an international organization based in Paris, ranked Estonia 4th among 180 countries in the World Index of Press Freedom published on Tuesday, a year earlier Estonia was ranked 15th.

The proposal of the Conservative People’s Party (EKRE) that the government of the republic would withdraw its signature from the Estonian-Russian border treaty concluded in February 2014, failed to gain support of the Riigikogu.

Archaeological excavations carried out on the Pärnu road in Tallinn's Tõnismägi before the construction of new houses have revealed interesting findings in the last several years, and the ongoing research is no exception.

The liver disease which is suspected to have been caused by an adenovirus, which can occasionally cause severe consequences and has infected nearly 200 children under the age of 10 globally, has not yet been found in Estonia.