Today the expedition organized by the SA Mare Liberum completed the underwater and exploration works at the site of the Estonia ferry disaster and began its return journey to the port of Eemshaven.

Hydrographer Peeter Ude, working as part of the private MS Estonia expedition, has not yet found the shipping containers he believes lie next to the wreck of MS Estonia. However, an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) piloted by Ude happened upon thr...

The rebels in Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley are taking advantage of discord between groups inside Taliban and paying its members to keep supply routes open, former Afghanistan soldier Abdul Mateen Farhang tells Postimees.

An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) sent to the car deck of the sunken ferry MS Estonia on Sunday managed to film car deck doors leading to lower passenger decks two of which are intact and closed.

MS Estonia survivor Jüri Vask, who used to work in the passenger ferry’s tax-free shop, said on the “Otse Eloga” webcast on Monday that he developed nightmares years after the disaster.

This morning at 6 o'clock the crew of the expedition organized by SA Mare Liberum gathered on the deck for a moment of silence in memory of the victims of the Estonia ferry disaster, which sank in the Baltic Sea on that day 27 years ago.

While the first eight days of the MS Estonia private expedition were spent studying the MS Estonia wreck using sonar and AUVs, divers took to the seabed to study damage to the starboard side of the hull on Sunday.

Lithuania has become the dominant Baltic country in terms of foreign policy at least as far as the media picture is concerned. Chairman of the Riigikogu Foreign Affairs Committee Marko Mihkelson (Reform) tells Postimees in an interview that a small c...

German diver Jakob Olszewski is known as the person who has been to the wreck of MS Estonia the most times, having seen the wreck on six dives. Olszewski is also a member of Margus Kurm’s SA Mare Liberum expedition where he heads the four-member te...

The decision to bring political newcomers Kristian Jaani and Eva-Maria Liimets to the government came across as a refreshing surprise in January. Warnings of what will happen when career officials are turned into politicians have now manifested at le...

Research vessel RS Sentinel is estimated to reach the site of MS Estonia’s sinking on Wednesday morning. The team’s first job will be to survey the seafloor using a multibeam sonar followed by a closer look at items surrounding the wreck to deter...

Prime Minister and head of the Reform Party Kaja Kallas toured Harju County on September 17. She met with the Lääne-Harju Cooperation Assembly and gave Postimees a short interview. We went over Kallas’ agenda and planned changes to the state budg...

The research group SA Mare Liberum created at the initiative of the relatives of those killed in the Estoniadisaster today will set off from the port of Eemshaven in the Netherlands on the research vessel RS SENTINEL on an expedition to the site of E...

Postimees was met with startled looks, uneasy smiles and angry remarks when it accompanied the Health Board and the police on a raid of Tallinn cafes. The authorities were checking compliance with the obligation to ask customers to produce COVID-19 v...

Criminal suspicions were brought against members of the board of the Rural Development Foundation (MES) Raul Rosenberg and Madis Reinup on Wednesday. Both were in charge of allocating crisis support at the height of the coronavirus crisis.

All government ministers with the exception of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas and Minister of Education and Research Liina Kersna plan to run in the October local government council elections. Of the 13 ministers running in the elections, none plan to ta...

President Kersti Kaljulaid urged MPs to be more active in her final Riigikogu fall session speech.

Monday marks the start of the sixth session of the XVI Riigikogu. After successfully electing Estonia’s next president, MPs are now looking at the third readings of outstanding bills.

The Health Board believes hobby schools opening for the season could translate into a spike in new coronavirus cases despite the reproduction rate for minors falling. The number of care home, educational institution and workplace outbreaks is growing...

The private MS Estonia expedition set to get underway nine days from now will also survey the inside of the wreck of the ferry, head of the initial MS Estonia disaster investigation and coordinator of the recent effort Margus Kurm said on the “Otse...

The SA Mare Liberum fund that was established upon an initiative of close relatives of people who died in the sinking of MS Estonia organises a privately initiated expedition to the wreck of the ferry, the goal of which is to find answers to question...

On 8 September, at 11 a press conference will take place in Omega Hall of Radisson Blu Hotel Olümpia, at which leading participants in the SA Mare Liberum fund will talk about a new independent expedition to the wreck of the Estonia ferry.

Head of the initial MS Estonia ferry disaster investigative committee Margus Kurm is leading a new expedition that will depart for the site in ten days. The aim of the private sponsors-backed expedition is to determine why the ferry sank.

Director of the Health Board Üllar Lanno handed his resignation to Minister of Health and Labor Tanel Kiik on Monday morning.

The coronavirus epicenter is in Southern Estonia. Head of Health Board South Tiia Luht told Postimees that epidemiological monitoring suggests the virus is spreading with the help of people who go to work or attend events while already exhibiting sym...