An explosive device that detonated in a trash bin at the Ülemiste shopping centre in Tallinn on Saturday evening injured a cleaner working at the mall. Fortunately, the person’s life is not in danger.

The apprehension of the criminal who slipped the bomb that exploded at one of Estonia’s largest shopping centers into a trash bin demonstrated the state’s rapid and effective functioning, writes security expert Erkki Koort of Postimees and the Es...

On Wednesday morning, three Russian Federation border guards violated the line of control on the Vasknarva pier, at the point where the Narva River flows out of Lake Peipus. They arrived by hovercraft, walked around on the pier, and left before the E...

Belgium demands guarantees from EU member states in order to start using frozen Russian assets. For Estonia, this would mean a liability of 450–500 million euros. Do you consider it right for EU countries to give such a guarantee to Belgium, or are...

On Wednesday morning, the Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) detected an illegal crossing of the temporary control line on the Narva River pier by three border guards of the Russian Federation.

Preparatory work began last week for the installation of the first five bunkers in southeastern Estonia, as part of the effort to establish the Baltic defense line.

E-voting has been in use in Estonia for over twenty years. Information technology has advanced tremendously during that time. Accordingly, the e-voting system must be continually improved and its security continually verified.

It is time to put an end to the tightening of firearm ownership rules and to recognise that Estonia’s (broad-based) national defence lies in the hands of our own people, writes former professional serviceman Captain Priit Rööp.

On 10 July 2026, the war between Russia and Ukraine will surpass, in duration, the time Russia spent participating in the First World War, writes military historian Jüri Kotšinev.

In an exclusive interview with Postimees, Finnish President Alexander Stubb acknowledged that relations between the US and Europe are shifting, and that Europe is entering an era that will define its role on the world stage. Stubb advises Estonians t...

Estonia, still known as a digital nation, must defend its position and make artificial intelligence a broad, society-wide topic, writes Joel Volkov, creative director at the advertising agency Tank.

On Thursday, Harju County Court found Aivo Peterson, chairman of the pro-Russian party KOOS, guilty of treason and sentenced him to 14 years of imprisonment.

On Tuesday evening the council of the public broadcaster — which has been politically at odds for several years — met to decide a symbolic question: whether the chairman of the public broadcaster’s council should be dismissed for expressing a p...

A puzzling post appeared on the personal social media account of Estonian President Alar Karis on Wednesday morning. The President’s Office remains tight-lipped.

The dismissal of ERR Supervisory Board chairman Rein Veidemann on Tuesday evening, following a board vote, is a sad sign for Estonian society. The hope that the ERR Supervisory Board would not be manipulated by the dictates of political correctness h...

Estonia’s ambassador to Kazakhstan, Jaak Ora, will leave his post on 1 January due to the controversy that accompanied President Alar Karis’s visit to Kazakhstan.

At the beginning of this month, the Donald Trump administration unveiled a new security strategy that has already drawn criticism from European partners because it no longer sees Russia as the primary threat, takes a skeptical view of NATO enlargemen...

Russia’s current situation has often been compared with the early years of the last century, when the empire of the time fought in the First World War. The end of that war was tragic for the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the German Empire and the Ottoma...

This week, former Chief State Prosecutor Margus Kurm put forward the idea that the Prosecutor’s Office should be abolished. Norman Aas, who served as the state’s Prosecutor General from 2005 to 2014, did not call the idea insane; in his view, the...

The topic of university funding and autonomy has created quite a media whirlwind, with articles appearing like boards from the Vändra sawmill, as people used to say. I also made my modest contribution (ERR, 25.11) to the debate. By now, responses ha...

Tallinn Airport is launching its largest-ever development project this year to expand its passenger terminal.

Sergei Teplov, principal of Tallinn Central Russian Gymnasium, has received a dismissal notice. The reason cited is systematic violations during the transition to Estonian-language instruction. Teplov has been a member of the Centre Party since 2005.

Reports of bombings in Ukrainian cities and civilian casualties are in the news every day, yet our preparations for the worst are progressing at a snail's pace.

On Monday, representatives of the Centre Party and Isamaa signed a new coalition agreement at the Tallinn Town Hall, which can also be characterized as the coalition agreement of the shadow government.