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.

The Portuguese Air Force on Friday handed over the duty of guarding the airspace of the Baltic states out of the Ämari air base in Estonia to the Italian Air Force, which will provide air policing with F-35 fighter jets.

A US subsidiary of the Estonia-founded technology company Wise has been fined 4.2 million US dollars, or 3.7 million euros, by local authorities for violating anti-money laundering rules.

Just a few weeks ago, we wrote in an editorial that the Estonian-Russian border has become a window through which trucking businesses are circumventing sanctions imposed on Russia by using legal loophole schemes. Now, we are revisiting this topic, fo...

Wood pulp production company Estonian Cell, struggling with high electricity prices, is to suspend production for two months starting in October, after which operations will resume at reduced capacity.

Estonians' dissatisfaction with food prices is growing, but there are ways to improve the situation.

African swine fever (ASF) has struck the Petlema farm in Rapla County, where 4,000 pigs were culled, delivering a heavy blow to the local meat industry, while the authorities are trying to contain the outbreak by intensifying the hunting of wild boar...

Riho Terras, a member of the European Parliament and retired general, rightly pointed out that the presence of the United States in Europe is indispensable. Those representing Estonia internationally must do everything they can to ensure this message...

In a video interview with Postimees, U.S. State Department Deputy Spokesperson Mignon Houston said that the United States sees Estonia as a model for other countries and plans to continue close cooperation with NATO.

It seems that the 1944 defensive battles at the Sinimäed Hills are finally starting to receive the recognition they deserve in Estonian history. For years, fearing Russian propaganda and misunderstanding from Western partners, we have been ashamed o...

On Saturday morning, a Russian Svetlyak-class border guard vessel, Sochi 500, entered Estonian territorial waters east of Vaindloo island without authorization and remained there for nearly 35 minutes.

AS LHV Pank has submitted a notice of intent to claim a contractual penalty of 247 million euros from the Estonian Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), alleging that the FIU unlawfully accessed the bank's clients' account statements and balance data ov...

Due to the activation of a new jammer in Russia, the Estonian Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (TTJA) and the Transport Administration are drawing attention to increased GPS interference, particularly affecting drone operations.

With the assistance of the Estonian Transport Administration, the captain and the owning company of the tanker Jaguar, which was escorted out of Estonia's economic waters this spring, have been sanctioned, the Estonian Transport Administration announ...

The Viru County Court has sentenced Pavel Kapustin, a Russian citizen residing in Narva, to prison for intelligence activities against the Republic of Estonia and support thereof, as well as providing false information to an administrative body and v...

The Estonian National Opera is ending its cooperation with the director José Cura due to Cura's ties with Russia, which means that the premiere of the opera «Peter Grimes,» scheduled for Sept. 26, will not take place.

This week, streamer Speed, who visited Tallinn and live-streamed the trip to his tens of millions of YouTube followers, sparked a real storm of opinions in the media. Some opined he is a pointless and lame guy, that the 30,000 euros spent on him was ...

Since 2014, more than 25,000 people, including nearly 3,500 children, have drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean. For the past ten years, almost every day a child has been lost to the sea. These people did not die in war or natural disasters. The...

Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna has signed a directive adding 19 more high-ranking Georgian officials to Estonia's sanctions list, with the entry ban including, among others, Georgia's minister of justice, prosecutor general, members of parliament, p...

The US Embassy in Estonia has announced the death of former US ambassador to Estonia Melissa Foelsch Wells.

The exclusion of women from active service demonstrates outdated thinking and it is time to change it, former Supreme Court chief justice Rait Maruste (RE) believes.

I am simply using the opportunity to express thanks. To express thanks to the person or, more broadly, those people whose work has resulted in Tallinn becoming aviation periphery. Today, one low-cost airline flies from here to barely one destination ...

Putin’s Russia is not standing still. It is moving. The president is of the opinion that Russia does not like peace and quiet – it likes «commotion» (движуха). Russia’s main «commotion,» to use the president’s prison slang, is, o...

President Alar Karis refused to promulgate the Churches and Congregations Act for the second time because he did not consider the amendments made by the Riigikogu to be sufficient. Should the Riigikogu now amend the law again, or would it be better f...