It came as a surprise to Prime Minister Kaja Kallas that Interior Minister Lauri Läänemets recommended Veiko Kommusaar as the candidate for the position of director general of the Police and Border Guard Board (PPA), because she had previously cons...

The timeline of the circumstances leading Keit Pentus-Rosimannus (Reform Party) to the European Court of Auditors suggests that former finance minister Pentus-Rosimannus got fed up with politics and the Court of Auditors was a golden umbrella for her...

Reporters of Postimees had the opportunity to spend a day on the southern front to observe the activities of the tactical air reconnaissance platoon, or aerorozvidka, of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The group of a few dozen pilots is led by a 47-year...

The Riigikogu yesterday condemned the annexation of the territory of Ukraine and declared the Russian regime terrorist.

Russian forces were driven away from Mykolaiv in early April but the frontline is still close to the city. Kherson is less than a hundred kilometers away and therefore life in the region’s capital is anything but peaceful.

Having arrived in Mykolayiv near the southern front, the Postimees reporters found out that even though the air raid warnings sound in the city every day with short breaks and the Russian troops randomly attack residential districts with rockets and ...

Many language enthusiasts have expressed concern recently - the Institute of the Estonian Language (EKI) is doing something incomprehensible with the written Estonian language. We have heard the signal: the language norms and style assessments taught...

After the French writer Yoann Barbereau had fled from Irkutsk, Siberia, where all his friends had told him that despite the evidence against him being fabricated, the court would sentence him to a long prison term, and hiding in the French Embassy in...

Minister of Economic Affairs Riina Sikkut (SDE) is being treated unfairly now. When we heard the news the day before yesterday that the LNG terminal would be located in Finland after all, rather than in Paldiski in Estonia, it was Sikkut who came und...

Viktoria, an artist, and her partner, Danil, a programmer, heard every explosion in Kherson since July, when the Ukrainian forces fired from a distance at the Antonivka bridge, along which the Russians were transporting equipment and ammunition to th...

Postimees has obtained documents revealing, who has been bringing oil products from Russia to Estonia since the last sanctions package came into force – a businessman worth of Nobel Prize in literature, who has an official permission to make an “...

This story began in 2018, when the state-owned company Port of Tallinn leased out a large parcel of land with quays. There used to be a coal terminal there, but the operator of the terminal, Coal Terminal AS, went bankrupt in the spring of 2017.

Thousands of customers have announced that they do not want to use the universal service and will continue with the previously selected electricity package. Some of them hope to save money with the exchange package.

The tender for communications services for the superministry for the next four years ended in the middle of September. The winner was Telia. Winning means in this case that Elisa and Tele 2 were disqualified and in the end there was no one to choose ...

Svante Pääbo, a Swedish paleogeneticist with Estonian roots, who sequenced the genome of the Neanderthal and discovered the previously unknown hominin Denisova, on Monday won the Nobel medicine prize.

At the Marinova dolomite quarry, which stretches along the Russian side in southeastern Estonia, on the border between gravel and grass, there are about a dozen piles of razor wire, which was unrolled along the border with Russia last autumn in order...

Defense Forces Commander, Lieutenant General Martin Herem, would extend the duration of compulsory military service from the current 8–11 months to 12–18 months in order to keep the new weapon systems arriving in Estonia in combat readiness.

The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) refuses to disclose the businesses of Russian oligarchs under sanctions in Estonia, while the Tax and Customs Board (EMTA) revealed the companies they know.

Locals cannot comprehend why an overpass costing several hundred thousand euros and unsuitable for the environment in their opinion was built across the Lemmjõgi in the Soomaa National Park in Viljandi County in order to mow a small meadow, while th...

Slovyansk already experienced a referendum back in 2014, and then we liberated the city, said Vadim Lyakh, the mayor of Slovyansk, one of the largest cities in the Donetsk region still under Ukrainian control, and added: “Let them hold their “ref...

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 ...