The government at its sitting on Thursday approved the requirements for the proficiency and use of the Estonian language for teachers, heads of schools and support specialists in connection with the transition to Estonian-language education.

Using the method of selective tender, the Estonian Center for Defense Investment (RKIK) is set to offer companies the opportunity to start the production of ammunition and munitions at the Ämari military campus from the beginning of next year.

The minister of finance must come up with a tax solution that increases economic growth, Mait Raava (The Right), management consultant at Pro Konsultatsioonid, finds.

The situation in the field of heat supply is particularly acute. 70 percent of the Russian population lives in regions where winters are long and the temperature drops below -30 degrees Celsius for a long time, columnist and Russian expert Andrey Kuz...

Kristen Michal's government is a sad continuation of the policies of Kaja Kallas' government. Unfortunately, there will be no correction of mistakes. Instead of a sense of security and crisis resolution, the people of Estonia will receive new spectac...

Martin Herem, commander of the Estonian defense forces until the end of June 2024, is joining the team of Milrem Robotics, a global leader in the development of robotics and autonomous systems.

Estonian President Alar Karis appointed the government led by Reform Party member Kristen Michal to office on Monday afternoon.

Jürgen Ligi, the Reform Party's candidate for the position of finance minister in the new government, said that Estonia's financial policy has been going downhill for the last 10 years, but the new tax package planned by the new coalition will not b...

In the democratic world, 2024 can be considered a major election year, since almost half of the global population has headed or is heading to the ballot boxes, historian Mart Kuldkepp writes.

The Reform Party, Estonia 200 and the Social Democratic Party (SDE) published the text of the new coalition agreement on Friday.

Von der Leyen's message was very clear – the European Union must provide Ukraine with both weapons and other aid, Estonian MEP Riho Terras (Isamaa) writes.

On July 1, the European Union ramped up sanctions imposed on Belarus to limit the ability of the Belarusian regime to participate in Russia's aggression against Ukraine and prevent the circumvention of the sanctions imposed against Russia through Bel...

The assassination attempt on the former US president raises numerous questions, and we will have some answers by next week at the latest, Erkki Koort, a security expert at Postimees and the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences, writes.

Representatives of our law enforcement agencies unanimously claim that Estonia is so safe that we no longer need firearms to protect our property and ourselves. Paradoxically, a legal gun owner is much more disciplined and law-abiding than someone wh...

The situation where nothing actually works, but the state sings a song about how well everything is, is reminiscent of the Soviet Union, composer Jüri Reinvere writes.

Estonian President Alar Karis tasked Kristen Michal, the incumbent climate minister and member of the Reform Party, with forming a new government at a meeting in Kadriorg on Tuesday morning.

The Estonian Foreign Ministry summoned a representative of the Russian embassy on Monday to deliver a diplomatic note in which Estonia proposes to Russia to jointly measure the fairway in the Narva river on the border of the two countries.

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas submitted her resignation at a government meeting on Monday due to her nomination as the European Union's high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, however, the government and prime minister are ...

Editor Toomas Toomsalu gives an overview of what the Russian notion of a sacred war means and where the term originated.

Urmas Paet, deputy chairman of the European Parliament's committee on foreign affairs, said at meetings with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Parliament President Roberta Metsola that considering the recent visits of Hu...

Estonian MEP Riho Terras is appealing to Ursula von der Leyen, Charles Michel and Roberta Metsola to suspend Hungary's voting rights in the Council according to the procedure set out in Article 7 of the Treaty on the European Union due to Hungarian P...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has long since formed the internal opposition of NATO and the EU. However, it had previously not taken such a clear shape, which would become dangerous for other allies, writes Erkki Koort, security expert of Po...

The more horrible the bacchanal of destruction and death in Ukraine is, the funnier, more grotesque and pitiful are the news from Russia itself, writer and historian Sergei Medvedev finds in his recent essay. As it is the time of the UEFA European Fo...

War is scary because it brings with itself death. It's terrible when people die. But often war destroys souls, and that is even worse. It's scarier because the dead sink into oblivion. But people with crippled consciousness live on and pose a danger ...

The Russian army and economy need a breather, historian and columnist Mart Kuldkepp writes.