Estonia Post Times
Tue, 08 Nov 2022 13:13:00 +0200Marko Mihkelson announces decision to step down as head of foreign affairs committee
Reform Party MP Marko Mihkelson, who has been at the center of a scandal following media reports about him having taken inappropriate photos of children, decided to step down from the position of chairman of the Estonian parliament's foreign affairs ...
Mon, 07 Nov 2022 12:41:00 +0200600 jobs under threat: several Estonian enterprises laying off workers
The Unemployment Insurance Fund received 17 notices of collective redundancies between October 1 and November 4. However, Lauri Kool, the PR adviser of the Fund, emphasizes that this is not the final number, because these statistics do not include th...
Fri, 04 Nov 2022 20:13:08 +0200The Finnish LNG terminal will not receive the Estonian taxpayers’ money
Although the Finnish Ministry of Economy saw the Estonians as shareholders of the Inkoo LNG terminal, the government put an end to their hopes and expectations.
Thu, 03 Nov 2022 17:59:41 +0200Strength of territorial defense units will be doubled
Commander of the Defense League, Brigadier General Riho Ühtegi, yesterday quoted the legendary general of the War of Independence, Aleksander Tõnisson: “Every Red must meet the bullet at every corner, every tree, every bush.” It was meant to ex...
Wed, 02 Nov 2022 11:55:00 +0200Financial Supervision Authority: 32,000-euro fine makes the Estonian state a laughing stock
Several law amendments are underway in Estonia, which would subject a number of companies to the control of the Financial Supervision Authority (FSA). The head of the agency, Kilvar Kessler, says, however, that until fines are not increased, the crim...
Tue, 01 Nov 2022 17:05:27 +0200US diplomat at NATO: all allies could help Ukraine the way Estonia does
More allies could adopt the societal approach as Estonia when helping Ukraine, says Rachel Ellehuus, top representative of the US Department of Defense at the NATO headquarters.
Mon, 31 Oct 2022 16:01:00 +0200Rent is plummeting; Tallinn has been flooded with apartments
The number of rental apartments in Tallinn has steeply increased and experts explain it with two main factors. Those seeking for an apartment can negotiate significantly lower rent than in the spring and the cost of already closed deals may drop.
Fri, 28 Oct 2022 15:57:00 +0300MP was caught having taken inappropriate photos of a minor
It happened a few years ago, when a parent, whose name we will not disclose, accidentally discovered pictures on his child's cell phone, the contents of which allegedly made his legs give way. It was that shocking to him.
Thu, 27 Oct 2022 16:04:25 +0300Estonia’s home Internet speed is lower than in Russia or Moldova
Despite the popular practice of marketing Estonia as a digital state, the speed of home Internet here is lower than that of such “digital giants” as Russia, Moldova, Bulgaria or Serbia.
Wed, 26 Oct 2022 17:25:36 +0300Deadline brought forward: Estonia bans in December any oil import from Russia
Estonia brings forward the ban on oil products imported from Russia. If the government approves the decision, the ban will come into effect from the beginning of December, Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu (Isamaa) confirmed to Postimees.
Tue, 25 Oct 2022 15:34:01 +0300Conflict over the new head of police: Läänemets prefers Kommusaar, Kallas Belichev
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...
Mon, 24 Oct 2022 16:22:44 +0300Crime report obstructs professional politician’s path to the Court of Auditors
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...
Thu, 20 Oct 2022 17:27:00 +0300POSTIMEES IN UKRAINE ⟩ Commander of a Ukrainian reconnaissance platoon: we work like a McDonald‘s cash register
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...
Wed, 19 Oct 2022 15:19:48 +0300The Riigikogu reached a rare consensus when declaring Russia terrorist
The Riigikogu yesterday condemned the annexation of the territory of Ukraine and declared the Russian regime terrorist.
Tue, 18 Oct 2022 14:18:13 +0300A dozen minutes between the air raid alert and the first explosions
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.
Mon, 17 Oct 2022 18:51:06 +0300Theater in Mykolayiv relieves the pain of war in and brushes away worries
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 ...
Fri, 14 Oct 2022 18:32:00 +0300The Language Institute is tampering with mother’s tongue but no one understands what is going on
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...
Thu, 13 Oct 2022 19:57:00 +0300A Frenchman escaped from the clutches of the FSB through Estonia
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...
Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:57:19 +0300Mistakes regarding the LNG terminal were made in April, Sikkut has to handle the muddle made by others
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...
Mon, 10 Oct 2022 16:57:00 +0300A Ukrainian couple traveled to Estonia through Crimea
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...
Thu, 06 Oct 2022 15:41:00 +0300The businessman worth Nobel Prize in literature stinks of Russian oil
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 “...
Thu, 06 Oct 2022 15:28:00 +0300Port of Tallinn trusted dubious investors and got entangled in disputes
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.
Tue, 04 Oct 2022 11:04:00 +0300Thousands of customers opt out of the universal service
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.
Mon, 03 Oct 2022 16:10:46 +0300Superministry close the most expensive communication service provider
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 ...
Mon, 03 Oct 2022 14:42:42 +0300Swedish scientist with Estonian roots wins Nobel prize in medicine
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.