Estonia’s annual inflation accelerated to 19 percent in April according to the Eurostat preliminary estimate. The last time we saw such rapid price rise was in the spring of 1996. April price rise in Estonia was also the highest in the euro area wh...

Economic expert Raivo Vare explains the passivity of Germany in assisting Ukraine, which has been sharply criticized in recent weeks, with their long-term miscalculations, which has resulted in the attitude that they must get along with Russia and, i...

It is difficult to get a definite answer on how effective is the background checking of Russian and Belarusian citizens who have received Estonian e-residency: the competent authorities are taciturn, no one takes full responsibility and instead of ri...

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...

Europe needs a leader in this war. The longer the war in Ukraine lasts, the more discussions there are about the actions and inactivity of Germany and its chancellor regarding Russia, writes MEP Riho Terras (Isamaa).

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.

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...

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...

The war in Ukraine is changing the political parties’ landscape in Estonia. A major redistribution of support is in progress.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

China has chosen Russia’s side in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Similarly, China is ever vigorously criticizing the European security architecture.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.