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Sun, 01 May 2022 14:00:00 +0300
Military heritage and railway to be restored on Naissaar Island
The council of the Viimsi rural municipality gave the Estonian Maritime Museum the right to start restoring the military heritage of Naissaar, especially in the areas of the Peter the Great naval fortress in the northern part of the island. According...

Fri, 29 Apr 2022 08:56:49 +0300
Tunnel of Russian naval base collapsed in Haabersti
It was discovered on Monday that a tunnel of an ammunition depot under heritage protection had collapsed in Astangu limestone bluff in the Haabersti district of Tallinn and the collapsing could continue.

Sun, 24 Apr 2022 15:24:12 +0300
Mayor of Slavutych: the Russian troops stayed in the city for two days and we never saw them again
The city of Slavutych in North Ukraine near the border with Belarus, built for the staff of the Chornobyl nuclear power station, found itself in a month-long isolation at the beginning of the war during which food and medicines were secretly smuggled...

Sun, 24 Apr 2022 15:05:36 +0300
Respecting the child and valuing clarity – Aino Pervik 90!
The works of the writer Aino Pervik, who celebrates her 90th birthday today, respect children and their right to know how the society works. Changing circumstances have caused so much confusion that even the adults need explanations, let alone childr...

Fri, 22 Apr 2022 12:43:41 +0300
The Reform Party dominates and the other parties are helpless
The war in Ukraine is changing the political parties’ landscape in Estonia. A major redistribution of support is in progress.

Fri, 22 Apr 2022 12:24:12 +0300
Why does the ISS yearbook feature Archbishop Urmas Viilma?
The recently published yearbook of the Internal Security Service (ISS) contains a brief sub-chapter on the politicization and influencing activities of the Islamic communities. An attentive viewer can identify Archbishop Urmas Viilma of the Estonian ...

Wed, 20 Apr 2022 17:19:00 +0300
Polish border checkpoint held back military aid to Ukraine
Volunteer Harri took five tons of armor plates for body armor from Estonia to Ukraine but simply could not cross the border between Poland and Ukraine. The border checkpoint personnel treated everybody with unusual arrogance.

Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:58:00 +0300
Julia Aug: We, the Russians, are all responsible for bringing up a dictator like Putin
Julia Aug, an actress and stage director well known in Russia and Estonia, can consider herself Estonia, Jewish, Swedish or Polish, but having studied and grown up in Russian-language environment in Narva and St. Petersburg, she primarily represents ...

Tue, 19 Apr 2022 15:13:48 +0300
The pretext of war creates a dangerous precedent
Canceling the environmental impact assessment (EIA) of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal planned in Paldiski, using the war in Ukraine as a pretext, could create a dangerous precedent according to ornithologists: other entrepreneurs would also...

Tue, 19 Apr 2022 11:17:00 +0300
Protests at the Russian Embassy against crimes of Russian soldiers
Russian soldiers are raping and killing innocent women and children in Ukraine. The people who support the war therefore support war crimes, hideous murders and are accomplices of these acts. This is our message to the supporters of Putin’s regime ...

Fri, 15 Apr 2022 16:17:00 +0300
Narva, a window to Europe for the deported
The Narva border checkpoint has become over the recent weeks a kind of lifeline for the Ukrainian refugees, whose only option to escape from the incessant combat activities – bombing and shooting – was a hazardous journey through Russia.

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 14:09:01 +0300
The new era requires crisis resilience from officials
Officials sometimes seem stiff and slow during crises but they have been trained to display these qualities and this is important to ensure the stability of the laws. However, officials should practice the change of roles necessary in crisis situatio...

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 13:50:44 +0300
Five minutes to decide whether to escape
As the Russian forces began their offensive in Ukraine at night on February 24, it triggered a flow of refugees, which has brought more than 28,000 people to Estonia, including Olexandra Pisorenko and Kateryna Shchetinina.

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 13:42:56 +0300
Russian soldiers detained 360 people in a cellar for 25 days. Ten of them died there.
Russian units entered the Yakhidne village in North Ukraine, fifteen kilometers towards Kyiv from the city of Chernihiv, on March 3. Within three days they forced most of the villagers, 360 people, to hide in the Soviet-era civil defense shelter unde...

Fri, 08 Apr 2022 19:11:22 +0300
Zelenskyi’s advisor: we can no longer directly supply the defenders of Mariupol
President of Russia Vladimir Putin now needs at any cost some kind of victory in Ukraine. His main objective is to take Mariupol, which the Ukrainian army no longer can directly supply, Oleksi Arestovych, one of closest advisors of Ukrainian Presiden...

Thu, 07 Apr 2022 18:54:04 +0300
China increasingly attacks the West and NATO. Estonia remains silent
China has chosen Russia’s side in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Similarly, China is ever vigorously criticizing the European security architecture.

Wed, 06 Apr 2022 18:55:00 +0300
Postimees in Bucha: every resident knows somebody who was killed
Graves of local residents can now be found in many yards of Bucha. Burying in the yards was the only way during the Russian occupation. Otherwise the dead bodies in the yards and apartments would have simply decayed. Even burying the dead in the yard...

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 13:25:00 +0300
Russian army left from Kyiv’s outskirts, taking along women’s underwear
Hemingway wrote in his book on the Spanish Civil War that one of the hardest things was to see men crying as their friends were killed. Somebody’s friend is killed in Ukraine every day.

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 15:31:34 +0300
Italian school textbook can make wrong impression of Estonia
Some Italian geography textbooks depict not only Estonia but also Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova as part of Russia. The error is being corrected.

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 18:09:28 +0300
Estonia needs help from Latvia and Finland in the race for the LNG terminal
While Russia is threatening to turn off gas supply unless buyers pay them in rubles, European countries are racing to find ways for escaping from energy dependence which is feeding the war.

Wed, 30 Mar 2022 16:18:56 +0300
We need to be prepared for massive immigration from Russia
It is likely that Estonia has to prepare for massive immigration from Russia at the end of the year and unlike the Ukrainians intending to return home the Russians will want to leave Putin’s regime behind for good.

Tue, 29 Mar 2022 13:33:13 +0300
A bomb in the middle of a peaceful village
Brovary, the eastern suburb of Kyiv, has been an uneasy place since the beginning of the war. You can still hear gunshots from that direction. But Khokholiv, which is located approximately twenty kilometers away, used to be a peaceful village in the ...

Mon, 28 Mar 2022 13:34:00 +0300
Expert in Russia: the draft will become a mini-referendum on the Russian army
The draft to compulsory military service will begin in Russia next week and it might turn into a kind of referendum over the Russian army and authorities, since many parents will do everything they can to keep their sons from fighting in Ukraine, Pav...

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 17:03:43 +0200
I feel anxiety and anger – there are Putin’s supporters in my class
I feel anxiety and anger because I know that there are two people in my class who support Putin. There is turmoil inside me, says Margot Lehtsalu, who is studying in the Tallinn Grammar School of Arts and wears a blue-yellow ribbon in Ukraine’s sup...

Wed, 23 Mar 2022 17:01:40 +0200
Additional discussion to decide the Valdeku crematorium operating license
The Tallinn Urban Planning Department invite the residents of Nõmme district to attend the discussion on the operating license of the Valdeku Street crematorium which only involved various options for legalizing the license.



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