Three out five ministerial candidates of Isamaa were predictable. Urmas Reinsalu, Tõnis Lukas and Riina Solman have all been ministers before. If any intrigue could be found here, it would concern Reinsalu, because his replacement member in the Riig...

Excavations began in Rakvere yesterday at the common grave of the Red Army soldiers who died in the Second World War, in order to bury the remains of the fallen in the Rakvere city cemetery. The reburial began quite unexpectedly and quickly – the c...

A furious whirlwind swept over Tartu County on Tuesday evening and destroyed a house in Kambja municipality besides causing other damage. “It took ten minutes and that was all ...”

Due to sanctions against Russia, 80,000 tons of fertilizers have remained stuck in the port of Muuga, of which 12,000 tons is explosive ammonium nitrate. The rest is carbamide (urea) and compound fertilizer.

The ministerial portfolios of the second government of Kaja Kallas (RE) are divided equally between the Reform Party, Isamaa and the Social Democrats, i.e. according to the 5:5:5 principle known from the governments of Jüri Ratas. The names of the n...

In June, the Ministry of Education and Research stopped the funding granted to three Russian-language schools, which was allocated as a pilot project for developing the Estonian language in schools. Since the city of Tallinn, which manages the school...

Two men who went to sea from Kokkola in Western Finland immediately before Midsummer Day believed to have sighted a whale. A walrus was found on a beach in Latvia early this week. Does this mean that we can meet new species in the Baltic Sea from now...

Russian missile strike destroyed the Pedagogical University in Kharkiv, on the wall of which there was a plaque commemorating Jaan Räppo, a cultural figure of Võru county. Räppo is credited with the authorship of the lyrics of the song «Haanja me...

Janika Allmets, a resident of Haapsalu fell so unfortunately on the rough and lumpy stone pavement of the renovated main street crosswalk that she broke her nose and knocked a chip off her tooth, the newspaper Lääne Elu reports.

The coalition agreement of the new government is not yet public, but the negotiators have already announced the most important issues they have agreed on. The agreements concern increased tax-free income, energy subsidies, compensation for nursing ho...

On Monday, the builders could not lift the cog of Lootsi Street out of the pit, while on Tuesday everything went smoothly, at least as far as the first section was concerned.

A few days ago, at the request of the Ukrainian prosecutor's office, Turkey seized the grain ship «Zhibek Zholy» belonging to the Kazakh enterprise KTZ. The ship is currently anchored in the Black Sea near the Turkish port city of Karasu. Ukraine ...

A coffin with a dead person fell from a hearse onto the street in Paide at the intersection of Pärnu and Suur-Aia streets last Saturday.

The political parties, which have been discussing until the early hours of Thursday, have gradually come closer to each other on various issues. They want to reach a final agreement as quickly as possible – the issues of family benefits and «socia...

It is no secret that the Ukrainian soldiers on the fronts suffer a serious shortage of artillery, tanks, rocket launchers and other heavy equipment. Postimees learned that in the fifth months of the war of independence, Ukrainian frontline units face...

Occupation authorities in Mariupol burned more than 7,500 books of the Saint Petro Mogyla Ukrainian Orthodox church library in the churchyard. It had miraculously survived the Russian invasion. Besides religious literature, several unique Ukrainian-l...

The infectious diseases lab of the Health Board confirmed on June 28 the first case of monkeypox in Estonia.

Many Russian citizens with short- or long-term Schengen visas us Estonia as a transit country on their way to Europe, making use of the so-called “health visas”.

According to the preliminary results of the state examinations published by the Education and Youth Board, the national average score decreased somewhat as compared with earlier years, while the results of the Estonian language examination remained t...

The Estonian Embassy in London is a stone's throw from Hyde Park. The five-storey house is in classic style, white and strict, and the flag of Ukraine is flying in front of it together with the Estonian one. The inside of the building is even more co...

The oldest soldier of the OUN Battalion serving in Eastern Ukraine, with call sign Tikhon, asks the unit commander every day about when he can go to the frontline to fight the enemy.

While the eyes of the public watched the “Siil” (Hedgehog) large-scale exercise, the so-called Brown Berets – US Air Force Combat Aviation Advisory Team – visited Estonia for the first time, helping to polish cooperation between the air and s...

The World Health Assembly in Geneva recently adopted a global strategy to reduce alcohol consumption, but drinking in Estonia has increased in recent years, according to the National Institute for Health Development.

The pedestrian tunnel and parking space under the Freedom Square in Tallinn received public shelter designations on June 13. There are 23 such sites in Tallinn and they will all receive the corresponding signs in the near future.

The Finnish media reported on Sunday that the wreck of MS Estonia in the bottom of the Baltic Sea has begun to leak more oil than previously. According to the Environmental Board, this does not pose a great hazard to the Estonian coast.