On Friday, the Supreme Court of Estonia rehabilitated Heiki Terras, who was convicted of various crimes by a court of the Estonian SSR in 1979 alongside Imre Arakas, a well-known figure in the underworld.

The failure of the Estonian state apparatus to limit the spread of Russian propaganda channels in Estonia is clearly a security issue, demonstrating on the one hand the complexity of the task, but also the little contribution of the state to eliminat...

The outgoing Year of the Dragon, 2024, was challenging, yet it paved the way for an even more difficult Year of the Snake. Let us briefly examine the impact of the US presidential elections on just one of the key events of the past year, observer Rai...

The Tallinn-based Harju County Court has approved custody for a 65-year-old woman, identified by her first name as Tatjana, who is suspected of the violation of an international sanction.

The decision of the Estonian Academy of Arts to end cooperation with Israel is appalling. Rector Mart Kalm's reasons for this step are simply embarrassing.

On Wednesday, Pope Francis granted the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tallinn permission to beatify Archbishop Eduard Profittlich, who lived in Estonia from 1930 and later died in a Kirov prison.

The largest mass protest in the country's history has been going on for 18 days in Georgia, not only in the capital, but also in smaller cities. Thugs and masked police officers in the pay of the ruling party are beating protesters, and over 500 peop...

At the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) Summit in Tallinn, Estonia, leaders of JEF member states signed a joint statement endorsing the core principles of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's victory plan.

The last 25 years have been exceptionally important for Estonia in securing our freedom and defense capability, Minister of Defense Hanno Pevkur writes.

At the summit of the national leaders of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) in Tallinn, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden and the UK agreed to disrupt and deter Russia's shadow fl...

The Estonian Foreign Ministry on Monday summoned Georgian Ambassador Zurab Khamashuridze to discuss violence against Georgian citizens, opposition leaders, and journalists, and the hostile statement by Georgia's ruling party about Estonia.

Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna signed a directive that serves as the basis for Estonia sanctioning another 14 Georgian officials and judges, including Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze.

The leak of the COVID-19 virus was likely an accident. However, this accident demonstrated to its creators the stunning effectiveness of their new weapon, former MEP Tunne Kelam (Isamaa) writes.

The Russian army is rapidly draining its reserves of manpower and military equipment, but it can replace them to a sufficient degree to continue fighting for a short time. Ukraine could offset the resource asymmetry with drones guided by artificial i...

In the ideological framework of Estonian politics, a significant change has taken place over the last few parliamentary cycles. Estonian citizens' ideological self-identification on the liberal-conservative scale has become a very clear and important...

Although Moscow left Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad without support, the turmoil in Syria could still benefit Vladimir Putin, columnist Andrey Kuzichkin writes.

Estonian President Alar Karis, who, with first lady Sirje Karis, attended the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Saturday, described the restoration of the important landmark through joint efforts as a testament to the power of broad-based...

The Harju County Court in Estonia has sentenced Kremlin-supporting taxi driver Vitali Tretjak to a long prison term for stabbing a Ukrainian passenger during a drinking session after the passenger revealed that his brother and nephew were fighting on...

To understand the extremely rapid changes that occurred in Syria over the ten days from November 27 to December 7, we should start from the map ingrained in memory that shows the areas controlled by the Assad regime, Turkey, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (the...

Estonian President Alar Karis, Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda and Polish President Andrzej Duda issued a joint statement on Friday on the situation in Georgia, condemning the use of force against the Georg...

Sun, wind and water – these are our three friends! In recent years, renewable energy – solar and wind – has become a symbol of the universal solution to the climate crisis. But there is a dark side to this narrative, writes Priit Tammeraid, an ...

Estonia needs to create its own scoring system so that we get people who create as much added value as possible, Marti Aavik, member of the board of The Right party, writes in his response to Bolt manager Markus Villig, who sees future Europe rather ...

This spring, the Harju District Court convicted Allan Hantsom of organising an attack that damaged the car of the Minister of the Interior and a journalist last December at the request and under the instruction of the Main Directorate of the General ...

On November 29, Nordic Aviation Group (Nordica) filed an application with a court to declare Nordica and Xfly bankrupt, Nordic Aviation Group said in a press release on Wednesday.

Fighting in the civil war has broken out again in Syria, mainly near the major city of Aleppo. Who is the opposition that started the fighting and who could benefit from it, writes Erkki Koort, security expert at Postimees and the Estonian Academy of...