Minister Liina Kersna (RE) signed last autumn two agreements for the purchase of rapid tests for schools; the large-scale breach of laws became apparent quickly enough, but formal response took an unacceptably long time and opened an opportunity for ...

We are probably viewing the last days of this government. Formally it should take a few more steps but both the Reform Party and the Center Party have positioned themselves in such a way that escaping the government crisis has become increasingly unl...

Individual finds across Estonia last year show that yet another alien species is settling down in the country. This species is the is the Asian ladybeetle or the harlequin, whose various negative features include the unpleasant habit of invading livi...

Alar Tupp had been in the University of Tartu clinic for a week, the doctors had examined him every way, but found nothing. Until a young doctor said there was another option left: capsule endoscopy.

The alleged motivation for the rise of family benefits that drove the government's relationship to breaking point is to alleviate the impact of price increase. But dumping several hundred million euros in the economy can give the opposite effect. And...

The supervisory board of Tallinna Linnatranspordi AS (Tallinn Public Transport Company – TLT) terminated the employment of Deniss Borodich, chairman of the management board, and Otto Popel, member of the management board, due to loss of confidence.

After an article published in Postimees about the suspicious origin of Tanker's new beers, the Agriculture and Food Board (PTA) initiated proceedings and it turned out that the brewing had taken place in part in the infamous Lithuanian Kalnapilis fac...

Four political parties of the Riigikogu want to double the amount for children’s benefits, especially in the support to families with three or more children. The politicians’ goal is to increase the number of childbirths with the money injection ...

Recent excavations inside the St. Nicholas Church in Tallinn and next to the building brought several pleasant surprises to archaeologists in the form of well-preserved funerals.

Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, Chairperson of the Reform Party, lost her nerve on Thursday. The Reform Party obviously opposed from the start the bill of raising children’s support, which the Center Party has unexpectedly bought out, and the party had...

The Ministry of the Environment wants to shift the obligation to deal with marine polluters in anchoring areas fully to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications (MKM), whose officials believe that the proposal makes no sense.

Companies transporting petroleum products, including a firm owned by Russia’s Gazprom Neft, want extra anchorages from the Estonian state for servicing tankers; former minister for environment Marko Pomerants (Isamaa) of the Powerhouse PR firm is l...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...