Estonia Post Times

Sat, 12 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0300
VOX POPULI OF POLITICAL PARTIES ⟩ How to end the voting rights of Russian citizens in Estonia?
The example of the Narva Museum shows that forces in semi-open opposition to the Estonian state can gain power in local government. This is partly due to Russian citizens living in Estonia, who remain under the mental influence of our neighboring cou...

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 18:00:00 +0300
EDITORIAL ⟩ Who will take gold?
On Friday, the plenary assembly of the Estonian Olympic Committee (EOC) faces the difficult task of electing a new president from among three good candidates. Jokers have already said that the best candidate would be Kersti Sõõrumägi. But as alway...

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 13:38:58 +0300
Supreme Court: COVID-19 restrictions on spas were lawful
The Estonian Supreme Court clarified in its decision on Thursday that the COVID-19 restrictions imposed on spas were lawful.

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 11:00:00 +0300
ALLAR JÕKS ⟩ I have a constitutional right to dream of a country where a satisfied entrepreneur is not subjected to the “must have fooled the state” look
I have a constitutional right to dream of a country where the premise of creating laws is not the belief that an entrepreneur is an enemy of the people. A country where, seeing a satisfied entrepreneur, people do not think that they have succeeded in...

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 23:19:19 +0300
VIKTORIA LADÕNSKAJA-KUBITS ⟩ The dangerous trend of floor-crossing
As of last week, a new, but at the same time old Lasnamäe district elder, Julianna Jurtšenko, officially took up her post. She switched parties, polished her phrasing, but kept her job. She is no exception. There are more than 15 politicians in the...

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 11:23:44 +0300
SERGEI MEDVEDEV ⟩ Russia mobilizing women to bear children for the army
Putin's Russia is indeed a great role model for men who value patriarchy. Whether these men themselves would agree to be cannon fodder in Russia's endless wars is a different matter. Now, mobilization has also been announced for women, writer and his...

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 10:24:43 +0300
Hundreds of Finnish criminals doing business in Estonia to circumvent ban
More than 900 individuals who have been charged with a serious crime or banned from doing business in Finland are doing business in Tallinn or elsewhere in Estonia, Postimees reported, citing a story by investigative journalists at Finland's public b...

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 10:17:33 +0300
Investigation Did Not Identify Driver Assistance System as the Culprit in Tesla Accident
The Police and Border Guard Board concluded its investigation into the traffic accident that occurred in mid-June on the Tallinn-Tartu highway involving a Tesla vehicle. They determined that the accident was not caused by a failure in the car’s dri...

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 11:58:03 +0300
MPs propose to recognize mass deportation of Crimean Tatars as act of genocide
The chairman of the Riigikogu foreign affairs committee, Marko Mihkelson, on Tuesday submitted to the Riigikogu a draft statement on behalf of 54 MPs marking the passage of 80 years since the mass deportation of Crimean Tatars and recognizing it as a...

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 17:29:00 +0300
ANDREY KUZICHKIN ⟩ Z-bloggers – the main tool for zombifying Russian society
The institution of war correspondents of modern Russia was established in 2014, when large-scale hostilities began in Eastern Ukraine, columnist Andrey Kuzichkin writes.

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 14:29:33 +0300
Scandalous businessman Marko Lastik facing new criminal case
Marko Lastik, the founder of the startup Eurora Solutions who is currently on trial for defrauding Enterprise Estonia and squandering tens of millions of euros of investors' money, now faces another criminal case, this time for allegedly defrauding s...

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 18:44:24 +0300
ESTCOY-20 hands over Inherent Resolve duties to new rotation in Iraq
The Estonian contingent ESTCOY-20, which is completing its rotation on the mission Inherent Resolve, on Thursday handed over responsibility to ESTCOY-21, which recently arrived in Iraq.

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 18:41:52 +0300
Luxembourg supports training of Ukrainian cyber defenders in Estonia
During a visit to the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence (CCDCOE) in Tallinn on Friday, Luxembourg's Defense Minister Yuriko Backes signed a declaration, according to which Luxembourg will finance the implementation of an internship ...

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 17:00:00 +0300
VOX POPULI OF POLITICAL PARTIES ⟩ Aleksei Jašin: Estonia could model itself after the Netherlands when it comes to smart devices in schools
Vox Populi of political parties. A plan to limit the use of smart devices in basic schools has reached the public. How do you comment on this plan?

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0300
MARTI AAVIK ⟩ Läänemets playing double game with Orthodox believers for short-term gain
The Orthodox believers who are clawing on to their subordination to Moscow have every reason to be very grateful to the Republic of Estonia and our people, writes Marti Aavik, member of the board of The Right party.

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 21:52:38 +0300
CLYDE KULL ⟩ Falling oil prices could trigger the next geopolitical shakeup
At a time when global attention is focused on what is happening on the battlefields of Ukraine, Gaza and Lebanon, the recent drop in energy prices, which may have unpredictable consequences, has barely been noticed outside the relevant industries. En...

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 20:36:50 +0300
Rail Baltic Estonia announces procurements potentially worth over one billion euros
Rail Baltic Estonia on Wednesday announced two large procurements, the total value of which could exceed one billion euros.

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:20:00 +0300
Conflict brewing again in Estonia's defense field
The shadows of the summer munitions dispute are still haunting Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur, with tensions rising again after fellow Reform Party MP and Riigikogu defense committee member Meelis Kiili expressed the desire to draw up a national defen...

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 14:40:00 +0300
RAUL EAMETS ⟩ The opaque state budget and non-existent cuts
The increase in state expenditures means that, in reality, no cuts are taking place, writes Raul Eamets, chief economist at Bigbank.

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 14:23:00 +0300
HEIDO VITSUR ⟩ Why does Estonia constantly have only bad and very bad options on the table?
Estonian companies are lacking in the innovation necessary to increase their competitiveness, and the state has not been able to support them in this, Heido Vitsur, economic analyst at LHV Pank, writes.

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:40:42 +0300
Netherlands seriously interested in renting prison places in Estonia
The Estonian Prison Service says there is serious interest from the Netherlands in renting prison space in Estonia.

Sun, 29 Sep 2024 14:26:10 +0300
Estonia's chancellor of justice recommends amending State Budget Act
Estonia's Chancellor of Justice Ülle Madise said on social media on Saturday that the time has come to amend the State Budget Act, the law setting out the fundamental principles governing the state budget.

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 20:24:17 +0300
Court convicts ex-minister Mailis Reps of embezzlement and fraud
The Harju County Court has found Estonia's former minister of education Mailis Reps guilty of embezzlement and fraud, handing her a cumulative sentence of one year and five months of imprisonment.

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:00:00 +0300
Vladimir Jushkin ⟩ The Sarmat gamble: the failed missile that Russians would like to cover up
Vladimir Jushkin, director of the Baltic Center for Russian Studies, lists the reasons why the Sarmat missile developed by Russia exploded.

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 21:18:23 +0300
EDITORIAL ⟩ A new phase of trickery
It seems like we are being presented with yet another act of trickery. At the press conference held on wednesday, the government introduced the new state budget and reiterated its previous promise to cut the budget by 1.4 billion euros over the next...

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