Estonia
Wed, 27 Jul 2022 17:08:17 +0300Tallinn promises to end cropping green areas
The city of Tallinn has begun to listen to the increasingly louder voices which demand that the grass should not be mowed regularly everywhere to a length of a couple of centimeters and some places be left untouched.
Mon, 25 Jul 2022 12:45:00 +0300New government was hit by its first staff problem
Suspicions have been raised regarding the suitability of the new Minister of Health and Labor Peep Peterson (SDE) as if his appointment as minister would go against the best practice of dealing with lobbyists adopted by the previous government on Mar...
Fri, 22 Jul 2022 12:37:00 +0300Stressful times in the real estate market; builders between the rock and a hard place
According to Kaarel Loigu, manager of the real estate development and management company Capital Mill, which is expanding its reach in the Baltic countries, the real estate market is currently undergoing rapid changes: loan interest rates are rising,...
Thu, 21 Jul 2022 19:39:00 +0300HIMARS extends Estonia’s striking power to enemy’s territory
The HIMARS (abbreviation of High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) rocket systems to be purchased from the United States will grant Estonia for the first time the ability to strike at the enemy in his own territory; until now the defense forces have ...
Wed, 20 Jul 2022 15:16:13 +0300Startup market has cooled down significantly
Swedish pay-as-you-go fintech company Klarna closed an $800 million funding round last week, valuing the company at $6.7 billion. It was a big shock, because Klarna was the most valuable startup company in Europe, valued by financiers at 45.6 billion...
Tue, 19 Jul 2022 16:41:25 +0300A loophole in the Medicines Act annoys the chronically ill
Although it is stipulated in case of some diseases that the chronically ill can buy medicines at a one hundred percent discount, a loophole in the law still deprives some buyers of this opportunity.
Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:54:00 +0300Estonia gets HIMARS multiple rocket launchers
The USA has approved the sale to Estonia of up to six multiple rocket launchers M142 HIMARS and related equipment. There have been rumors about its cost to the taxpayer of hundreds of millions but the contract is still being prepared and it is know t...
Fri, 15 Jul 2022 19:55:18 +0300Isamaa surprised with its ministers
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...
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:27:50 +0300Soviet monument in Rakvere was removed; human remains will be reburied
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...
Wed, 13 Jul 2022 19:40:29 +0300A family lost its home to whirlwind in ten minutes: We are all shocked
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 ...”
Wed, 13 Jul 2022 19:36:14 +0300Hazardous fertilizers stockpiled in Muuga due to sanctions against Russia
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.
Tue, 12 Jul 2022 11:12:00 +0300Kaja Kallas’ Viljandi interim government adopts the structure known from the cabinet of Jüri Ratas
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...
Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:41:00 +0300Veil of secrecy over the millions granted to Russian schools of Tallinn to learn Estonian
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...
Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:44:33 +0300The whale and walrus lost in the Baltic Sea face a sad end
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...
Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:36:14 +0300Russian missile destroyed memorial tablet to an Estonian in a Ukrainian school
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...
Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:30:22 +0300Renovated main street of Haapsalu claimed its first victim
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.
Mon, 11 Jul 2022 11:25:00 +0300New ruling coalition leaves a financial time bomb for future governments
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...
Fri, 08 Jul 2022 13:17:35 +0300The cog of Lootsi Street was lifted at second attempt
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.
Fri, 08 Jul 2022 13:12:31 +0300Kazakh media: an Estonian company exports grain from occupied Ukraine
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 ...
Fri, 08 Jul 2022 12:49:52 +0300A coffin with a dead body fell from the hearse onto the street
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.
Fri, 08 Jul 2022 12:19:00 +0300The coalition hopes to reach an agreement by the beginning of next week. «We are all waiting for a quick solution»
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...
Tue, 05 Jul 2022 20:36:17 +0300The supply problem of the Ukrainian forces is becoming ever more serious
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...
Tue, 05 Jul 2022 20:30:47 +0300Occupiers destroyed the library of the Mariupol congregation
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...
Tue, 05 Jul 2022 20:27:18 +0300First case of monkeypox identified in Estonia
The infectious diseases lab of the Health Board confirmed on June 28 the first case of monkeypox in Estonia.
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 16:07:16 +0300«Health visa» opens the Russians a window to the West
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”.