African swine fever (ASF) has been detected at EKSEKO, Estonia’s largest pig farm, and at Piiskopi farm, located in the supervision zone of Nurme farm. As a result, the Agriculture and Food Board is activating its animal disease emergency response ...

The Tartu County Court sentenced on Tuesday Erna Moisejeva, aged 63, to three years in prison for spying on behalf of Russia.

The attack drone that fell into Lake Peipsi early Sunday morning and, according to the Estonian Police and Border Guard Board (PPA), exploded in the process, once again reminds us how close the Russia-Ukraine war is to NATO's eastern border countries...

A local farmer found pieces of a Ukrainian attack drone in Elva rural municipality, Tartu County, on Monday afternoon, and an explosion crater was also identified at the scene.

Virtually no one on Russian-language social media supported the president's Restoration of Independence Day speech, writes columnist Andrey Kuzichkin.

President Alar Karis refused to promulgate the Churches and Congregations Act for the second time, citing its inconsistency with the Constitution. What should the Riigikogu do with the law now?

This morning, a drone crashed on Russian territory six kilometers from the Estonian border at Lake Peipus.

Estonia is a whole, where every person, piece of land, house, park, street, forest patch, etc., is directly or indirectly, visibly or invisibly interconnected. It's the beehive for which we shed tears of emotion while singing on the slope of Lasnamä...

At the end of this year, the government must decide whether Estonia will accept 79 refugees from the Middle East and North Africa (for whom the EU would provide 10,000 euros each for accommodation), send experts to Southern European countries to assi...

August. 20, 1991, will forever be one of the happiest days in Estonian history, when the coup attempt in Moscow briefly opened a window of opportunity for us. We managed to leap through it and, over the following years, achieve each of our goals one ...

The director general of the Estonian Agriculture and Food Board (PTA), Raimo Heinam, briefly managed to generate sympathy for himself through bold decision-making in the African swine fever saga that escalated last week.

At its meeting on Thursday, the Estonian government decided to approve a national designated spatial plan for a defense industry park on a 204-hectare site in the Ermistu village, Pärnu city, and on a 141-hectare site in Varinurme village, East Viru...

Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal participated Tuesday in several European leaders' coordination meetings following Monday's Washington meeting between with US President Donald Trump, Ukrainian Presiden Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and European leaders.

On Aug. 8, it was one year since the Tax and Customs Board began carrying out full customs checks on the Estonian-Russian border. This involves comprehensive inspections of all people, vehicles, and cargo crossing the border, regardless of the purpos...

With the help of the US president, Russian ruler Vladimir Putin has already emerged from isolation to a significant extent, and if the meeting in Alaska does indeed take place, the world will also receive strong visual proof of this. The question now...

The Estonian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday summoned the chargé d'affaires of the Russian embassy to present a diplomatic note on declaring the first secretary of the Russian embassy's staff persona non grata.

The Viru County Court last week approved custody for a Polish national who had attempted to cross the Narva River illegally from Estonia into Russia, intending to subsequently travel to Ukraine to fight on the Russian side.

On Tuesday, a court in Seattle, United States, sentenced Estonian crypto entrepreneurs Ivan Turõgin and Sergei Potapenko to 16 months in prison. The men have already been in U.S. custody for 16 months during court proceedings, meaning they have alre...

Postimees has published a multi-part series, «Threat from above», which examines how the advent of drones has changed warfare and whether Estonia is prepared for these changes. In short, the changes have been enormous, and we are not prepared for t...

In a joint declaration published on Tuesday, the speakers of the parliaments of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania reaffirmed their steadfast and unwavering commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity.

The meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska must not turn into a new Munich, where the hope of brokering peace instead led to war, merely satisfying the aggressor's appetite for a short while.

The captain and two senior officers of a ship believed to belong to Russia's so-called shadow fleet have been charged with sabotage for cutting five Baltic Sea cables in December, Finnish prosecutors said Monday.

While important and less important opinion-givers were gathering in Paide for the Opinion Festival, a different kind of festival took place at the gates of the Nurme pig farm near Kärstna, in Viljandi County. It has already been dubbed the «people'...

News that Finnish war graves have been desecrated in Russian Karelia is being followed with astonishment and disapproval in Finland, Erkki Bahovski notes in his daily commentary.

Estonia's eastern border needs to be strengthened because we need to be able to control who and what moves across it.