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Fri, 02 Dec 2022 15:45:00 +0200
The war has thinned the ranks of Russian forces near Estonia’s border
The Defense Forces intelligence center and the Foreign Intelligence Service have a good overview of what is happening in Russia's Western Military District, but precise information about what is going on in Russian military bases is not to be shared ...

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 16:45:00 +0200
The work interrupted by war will continue: Kaljulaid seeks the post of NATO Secretary General
President Kersti Kaljulaid has been talking to the prime and foreign ministers this autumn about her prospects to become the first Secretary General of NATO from the former Eastern bloc. But how good are Estonia’s chances in reality?

Wed, 30 Nov 2022 17:33:00 +0200
Do shells fly in zigzag? Defense Minister Pevkur straightened the Nursipalu map in a strange way
Heavy weapons cannot be fired in zigzag the way the meandering border of the extension of the Nursipalu training ground runs after the reduction at the request of the Minister of Defense; therefore it will be up to the next government to decide wheth...

Tue, 29 Nov 2022 13:15:00 +0200
The most important struggle of Estonia’s diplomacy: price ceiling for Russia’s oil
The next few days will decide whether Estonia and Poland will succeed in establishing a price ceiling for Russian oil. This, in turn, will affect the global oil price.

Mon, 28 Nov 2022 13:21:00 +0200
Stealing everything and everywhere: take care of your firewood
The thefts of firewood and timber have increased since the arrival of autumn. Thieves carry away valuable stuff in armfuls, not to mention truckloads. Since September, about 80 such thefts have been reported to the police, a few dozen more cases than...

Fri, 25 Nov 2022 18:23:05 +0200
Mysterious diplomacy: a naval officer becomes a monuments expert
Although diplomats wear ties and suits and their jovial chatter gives an impression of ordinary people with broad horizons and interests, digging into their past can reveal something unexpected.

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 15:46:36 +0200
Decision made on nearly all Red monuments; Maarjamäe is a special case
The Government Office Red monuments and grave markers working group yesterday gave an overview of their mapping and evaluation; information on 322 objects was collected from existing databases, local governments, and through an online application of ...

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 15:33:33 +0200
«I was lucky they did not electrocute my balls»
Hundreds of pro-Ukrainian activists were imprisoned in Kherson during the Russian occupation, when the main torture method was electric shock. 20-year-old Artur told Postimees reporters his story.

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 15:50:00 +0200
Europe’s oil tanks are brimming, price decline will reach the gas stations
Europe’s refining plants have currently more crude oil than they can process into fuels. The earlier panic over the decline of Russian oil export and the resulting fuel shortage now seems exaggerated to the traders.

Mon, 21 Nov 2022 11:50:00 +0200
Russian gas heats Estonia’s homes this winter
After the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, so much Russian pipeline gas has been imported into the Baltic-Finnish gas network that it exceeds Estonia's annual consumption by more than two and a half times. But without purchasing the despised resource ...

Fri, 18 Nov 2022 18:25:10 +0200
Another crack in the digital state’s reputation: Estonia has to apologize to the EU
The inability to complete the development of the Schengen Information System (SIS) in time forced Interior Minister Lauri Läänemets to apologize to both the European Union and the member states of the community a few weeks ago.

Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:22:00 +0200
Villager from Przewodów on the missile hits: two of my friends were killed
The village of Przewodów in the eastern part of Poland, with about four hundred inhabitants, is deeply shocked after a tragic accident which took place yesterday afternoon – a grain dryer in the settlement ten kilometers from the Ukrainian border ...

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 16:32:39 +0200
The war in Ukraine is breaking up Russian families in Estonia
The war in Ukraine has caused conflict among the closest people who had always got along well and had no disagreements on any issue. Rus.Postimees contacted two young people, let's call them Alexander and Anna, who were forced to stop communicating w...

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 12:19:00 +0200
A new law would bring a 34-percent wage rise overnight
In exactly two years, Estonia will have to adopt the European Union's wage law, which will increase the wages of two very opposite groups, i.e. the minimum wage earners and the politicians.

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 11:04:00 +0200
Rus.Postimees invites: conference «Can free Russian media change Russia?»
On November 17, from 3 to 6 pm, the conference "Can free Russian media change Russia?" will take place in Fotografiska, Tallinn.

Fri, 11 Nov 2022 18:33:06 +0200
Voting rights of Russian citizens – Isamaa and the Reform Party would abolish it, the Social Democrats would keep it
The Reform Party would limit the right of citizens of countries which threaten Estonia's security, i.e. Russia, to elect local government councils, the ruling coalition partner Isamaa is willing to negotiate on this issue, but the Social Democrats fa...

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 17:28:49 +0200
Assigning a British brigade to the division took a lot of persuasion
The forming of the divisional structure agreed at the summer NATO summit is at least reaching legal formalization. Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur (RE) wants to enter the government in the next few weeks by changing the statutes of the defense forces. ...

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 12:06:00 +0200
The state’s hasty plan might obstruct wind farms’ development
Wind farm developers fear that the state's radical plan to speed up the introduction of wind energy may result in the opposite – slow down the construction of wind farms. The most serious point of contention is the state's desire to start looking f...

Tue, 08 Nov 2022 13:13:00 +0200
Marko 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 +0200
600 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 +0200
The 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 +0200
Strength 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 +0200
Financial 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 +0200
US 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.



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