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Wed, 10 Aug 2022 10:59:19 +0300
PHOTOS ⟩ Shopping in Sõle Rimi like there was no tomorrow
Since the Rimi store on Sõle Street in Tallinn will be closed for good, the store held a closing sale.

Wed, 10 Aug 2022 10:50:39 +0300
Violations of public procurement surface by accident
It was only recently when the purchase of rapid corona tests resulted in a criminal case against the former minister of education and research. Questionable procurements which have taken place in health care now and then give the impression that part...

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 16:37:09 +0300
Jelena Ostapenko will take part in the Tallinn Open WTA 250 tennis tournament
Latvian number one Jelena Ostapenko (WTA 16) has confirmed her participation in the Tallinn Open WTA 250 tennis tournament.

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 15:27:18 +0300
A resident in conflict with the municipality exposed an official’s lack of education
A resident of Haljala municipality appealed to the local government because the road she used to reach her properties was in a bad condition. Some time later, the municipality repaired the road, but then closed it with signs forbidding entry. A two-y...

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 15:18:03 +0300
PHOTOS ⟩ Large traffic jam of ships near Estonia’s coast
A traffic jam of ships waiting for the opportunity to enter Russian ports has built up in the Gulf of Finland between the Käsmu Peninsula and Finland’s Porvoo. When Postimees flew over the Gulf of Finland in a light aircraft, 21 vessels had anchor...

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 15:04:38 +0300
Krisli Melesk, who conquered K2: this is totally different from Mount Everest
The achievement of Krisli Melesk, who reached the top of the worlds second-highest mountain, the 8,611-meter K2, quickly reached the public through the media, but the world traveler herself remained elusive. The reason was simple: Melesk kept in to...

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 17:42:28 +0300
Russia’s black oil and fuel oil business with Saudi Arabia moves through Estonia
Saudi Arabia has doubled its imports of Russian black oil and fuel oil in the second quarter of this year. Reuters indicates that the total volume for the past three months has been 647,000 tons of Russian black oil, and a large share of this busines...

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 16:09:23 +0300
New support measure of broadband internet might fail
Although more than a hundred million euros have been invested over the years in taking high-speed internet to the countryside, nearly 80,000 Estonian rural households are still without a modern internet connection. On Tuesday, the next 24 million eur...

Wed, 27 Jul 2022 17:08:17 +0300
Tallinn promises to end cropping green areas
The city of Tallinn has begun to listen to the increasingly louder voices which demand that the grass should not be mowed regularly everywhere to a length of a couple of centimeters and some places be left untouched.

Mon, 25 Jul 2022 12:45:00 +0300
New government was hit by its first staff problem
Suspicions have been raised regarding the suitability of the new Minister of Health and Labor Peep Peterson (SDE) as if his appointment as minister would go against the best practice of dealing with lobbyists adopted by the previous government on Mar...

Fri, 22 Jul 2022 12:37:00 +0300
Stressful times in the real estate market; builders between the rock and a hard place
According to Kaarel Loigu, manager of the real estate development and management company Capital Mill, which is expanding its reach in the Baltic countries, the real estate market is currently undergoing rapid changes: loan interest rates are rising,...

Thu, 21 Jul 2022 19:39:00 +0300
HIMARS extends Estonia’s striking power to enemy’s territory
The HIMARS (abbreviation of High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) rocket systems to be purchased from the United States will grant Estonia for the first time the ability to strike at the enemy in his own territory; until now the defense forces have ...

Wed, 20 Jul 2022 15:16:13 +0300
Startup market has cooled down significantly
Swedish pay-as-you-go fintech company Klarna closed an $800 million funding round last week, valuing the company at $6.7 billion. It was a big shock, because Klarna was the most valuable startup company in Europe, valued by financiers at 45.6 billion...

Tue, 19 Jul 2022 16:41:25 +0300
A loophole in the Medicines Act annoys the chronically ill
Although it is stipulated in case of some diseases that the chronically ill can buy medicines at a one hundred percent discount, a loophole in the law still deprives some buyers of this opportunity.

Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:54:00 +0300
Estonia gets HIMARS multiple rocket launchers
The USA has approved the sale to Estonia of up to six multiple rocket launchers M142 HIMARS and related equipment. There have been rumors about its cost to the taxpayer of hundreds of millions but the contract is still being prepared and it is know t...

Fri, 15 Jul 2022 19:55:18 +0300
Isamaa surprised with its ministers
Three out five ministerial candidates of Isamaa were predictable. Urmas Reinsalu, Tõnis Lukas and Riina Solman have all been ministers before. If any intrigue could be found here, it would concern Reinsalu, because his replacement member in the Riig...

Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:27:50 +0300
Soviet monument in Rakvere was removed; human remains will be reburied
Excavations began in Rakvere yesterday at the common grave of the Red Army soldiers who died in the Second World War, in order to bury the remains of the fallen in the Rakvere city cemetery. The reburial began quite unexpectedly and quickly – the c...

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 19:40:29 +0300
A family lost its home to whirlwind in ten minutes: We are all shocked
A furious whirlwind swept over Tartu County on Tuesday evening and destroyed a house in Kambja municipality besides causing other damage. “It took ten minutes and that was all ...”

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 19:36:14 +0300
Hazardous fertilizers stockpiled in Muuga due to sanctions against Russia
Due to sanctions against Russia, 80,000 tons of fertilizers have remained stuck in the port of Muuga, of which 12,000 tons is explosive ammonium nitrate. The rest is carbamide (urea) and compound fertilizer.

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 11:12:00 +0300
Kaja Kallas’ Viljandi interim government adopts the structure known from the cabinet of Jüri Ratas
The ministerial portfolios of the second government of Kaja Kallas (RE) are divided equally between the Reform Party, Isamaa and the Social Democrats, i.e. according to the 5:5:5 principle known from the governments of Jüri Ratas. The names of the n...

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:41:00 +0300
Veil of secrecy over the millions granted to Russian schools of Tallinn to learn Estonian
In June, the Ministry of Education and Research stopped the funding granted to three Russian-language schools, which was allocated as a pilot project for developing the Estonian language in schools. Since the city of Tallinn, which manages the school...

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:44:33 +0300
The whale and walrus lost in the Baltic Sea face a sad end
Two men who went to sea from Kokkola in Western Finland immediately before Midsummer Day believed to have sighted a whale. A walrus was found on a beach in Latvia early this week. Does this mean that we can meet new species in the Baltic Sea from now...

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:36:14 +0300
Russian missile destroyed memorial tablet to an Estonian in a Ukrainian school
Russian missile strike destroyed the Pedagogical University in Kharkiv, on the wall of which there was a plaque commemorating Jaan Räppo, a cultural figure of Võru county. Räppo is credited with the authorship of the lyrics of the song «Haanja me...

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:30:22 +0300
Renovated main street of Haapsalu claimed its first victim
Janika Allmets, a resident of Haapsalu fell so unfortunately on the rough and lumpy stone pavement of the renovated main street crosswalk that she broke her nose and knocked a chip off her tooth, the newspaper Lääne Elu reports.

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 11:25:00 +0300
New ruling coalition leaves a financial time bomb for future governments
The coalition agreement of the new government is not yet public, but the negotiators have already announced the most important issues they have agreed on. The agreements concern increased tax-free income, energy subsidies, compensation for nursing ho...



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