According to current plans, the number of Estonian troops on military missions next year will be smaller by a hundred than in 2021 because operations in the main mission area in Mali will be terminated.

The partial mobilization announced by Russian President Vladimir Putting on Wednesday morning may lead to pressure on the Estonian border by Russian men who wish to evade it.

Support of the leader of the political parties’ ratings, the Reform Party, has been in decline for a little over a month, while at the same time, the popularity of the Estonian Conservative People's Party (EKRE) has increased, being almost at the s...

The board of the Riigikogu accepted a collective appeal asking for help to students who are Russian citizens and wish to stay in Estonia. The petition forwarded to the Foreign Affairs Committee gathered 2,223 signatures in less than 24 hours in Augus...

Unless Vladimir Putin is ready to withdraw from Ukraine, he shouldn’t be offered a podium at the next Munich Security Conference, says the conference’s new chair Ambassador Christoph Heusgen as a response to a hypothetical question what would he ...

Although the chancellor of justice has expressed the view that Isamaa's desire to revoke the right of foreigners living in Estonia to vote in local elections is rather contrary to the constitution, both the representatives of the Reform Party and EKR...

Senior civil servants can expect a sizeable salary increase next year because their salary in indexed according to an old law.

Mykhailo Podolyak, can we say that Ukraine is how holding strategic initiative in the war?I would say that the third stage of the war has begun, where Ukraine has the tactical-operational initiative. The first stage of the war was the battles and the...

You go to the store and want to buy your favorite 200-gram pack of butter. But wait: there are only 185 grams left in the package, although the price is the same. This is the way consumers are being tricked out of their money.

A person or persons unknown had vandalized the German military cemetery in Ahtme, East Viru County, by defacing memorial plaques and spraying pro-war symbols on them.

The foreign ministers of the Baltic states reached an agreement in Kaunas on Wednesday that from the end of September at the latest, citizens of the Russian Federation with a Schengen visa will not be allowed to enter the Baltic states.

The Estonian embassy in Moscow has received threats after the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that it could be stoned. According to Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu, the security of our embassy is constan...

The new Article 91 of the Penal Code concerning supporting aggression against the state, which the Estonian courts have never handled since the restoration of independence, has already been used to prosecute several individuals. All this happened as ...

The board of the Center Party condemned the statement of Mikhail Stalnukhin, a member of the Riigikogu center faction and a member of the Narva City Council, for his statement in the Russian-language Youtube channel of the Slavia portal where he desc...

The proposal for faster employment of Ukrainian doctors and nurses was rejected at the latest sitting of the Riigikogu Social Affairs Committee. Officials described the extension of special treatment to all citizens of third countries a political dec...

Over the past decade, the number of internal security personnel has decreased by a fifth. But the trend of the last year and a half is startling even compared to previous years.

A miracle has been made in three months – Tallinn has created from scratch schools for Ukrainian pupils and found teachers for them, despite the shortage of pedagogues.

Hundreds of Ukrainian war refugees are threatened with the loss of their hard-established homes in Estonia as the Social Insurance Board (SKA) demands that the already notorious Mäepealse and Kopli apartment buildings in Tallinn must be vacated by t...

People whose severe health damage gas gone uncompensated, whose illness is not associated with the corona vaccine and who consider the interpretation of the law, the content of the evidence used and their collection to be sometimes skewed, are consid...

German Barinov, 25, has become the first among Estonian volunteers fighting in Ukraine to receive decoration for courage from the president of Ukraine. German was supposed to receive the order on Ukraine’s Day of Independence, but he had to stay on...

Indrek Tarand, former member of the European Parliament (MEP), who was supposed to start working as the deputy head of the Estonian embassy in Minsk and was driving under the influence of alcohol on Wednesday night, submitted his resignation after be...

The demolition of the massive Soviet-era column and its accompanying sculptures, which have been spending their final days in Victory Park in the center of Riga, began almost as suddenly as the recent relocation of the T-34 tank and other Red monumen...

According to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), the killer of Darya Dugina, the daughter of the Russian ideologist Alexander Dugin, escaped to Estonia through the Pskov region. The Police and Border Guard Board do not publish the data of bor...

Construction projects are being put on hold in Estonia one after the other. One need not look far for the reason: the state sector wanted to spend 47 million for the construction of the Viljandi hospital, but it just became clear that the price will ...

Entrepreneurs are looking forward to autumn with fear, because in addition to the increase in consumer prices, high energy costs can lead to partial production shutdowns and layoffs.