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Fri, 06 May 2022 20:09:53 +0300
Analysis: Germany was and is the most lavish financier of Putin’s war machine
Earlier this week, Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz announced in a long interview to Germany’s public broadcaster ZDF that he had no plans to travel to Kyiv after the Ukrainians refused to receive German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier last mont...

Thu, 05 May 2022 16:48:42 +0300
Annoyed the prosecutor’s office: the court fined two Eesti Ekspress journalists for article about money laundering
Alari Möldre, Judge of the Harju Country Court, fined two journalists of the Eesti Ekspress weekly for releasing the information about former management of Swedbank being suspected of money laundering.

Wed, 04 May 2022 16:41:32 +0300
Estonia’s ranking in the freedom of press index improved greatly
Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), an international organization based in Paris, ranked Estonia 4th among 180 countries in the World Index of Press Freedom published on Tuesday, a year earlier Estonia was ranked 15th.

Wed, 04 May 2022 16:35:28 +0300
The EKRE border treaty proposal, legally stillborn, failed politically as well.
The proposal of the Conservative People’s Party (EKRE) that the government of the republic would withdraw its signature from the Estonian-Russian border treaty concluded in February 2014, failed to gain support of the Riigikogu.

Wed, 04 May 2022 12:33:24 +0300
Archaeologists discovered Viking-era hearths in Tõnismägi
Archaeological excavations carried out on the Pärnu road in Tallinn's Tõnismägi before the construction of new houses have revealed interesting findings in the last several years, and the ongoing research is no exception.

Wed, 04 May 2022 12:26:47 +0300
The mysterious virus attacking liver has not been detected in Estonia
The liver disease which is suspected to have been caused by an adenovirus, which can occasionally cause severe consequences and has infected nearly 200 children under the age of 10 globally, has not yet been found in Estonia.

Tue, 03 May 2022 19:18:05 +0300
Prices shoot up like in the wild nineties: increased even without any reason
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...

Tue, 03 May 2022 12:50:00 +0300
Raivo Vare: the Europeans are playing political games in Ukraine
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...

Mon, 02 May 2022 12:36:00 +0300
No one wants to discuss efficiency of background check of e-residents
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...

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 12:42:00 +0300
Riho Terras – Germany’s four steps towards becoming the leader of Europe
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).

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...



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