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Thu, 06 Oct 2022 15:41:00 +0300
The businessman worth Nobel Prize in literature stinks of Russian oil
Postimees has obtained documents revealing, who has been bringing oil products from Russia to Estonia since the last sanctions package came into force – a businessman worth of Nobel Prize in literature, who has an official permission to make an “...

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 15:28:00 +0300
Port of Tallinn trusted dubious investors and got entangled in disputes
This story began in 2018, when the state-owned company Port of Tallinn leased out a large parcel of land with quays. There used to be a coal terminal there, but the operator of the terminal, Coal Terminal AS, went bankrupt in the spring of 2017.

Tue, 04 Oct 2022 11:04:00 +0300
Thousands of customers opt out of the universal service
Thousands of customers have announced that they do not want to use the universal service and will continue with the previously selected electricity package. Some of them hope to save money with the exchange package.

Mon, 03 Oct 2022 16:10:46 +0300
Superministry close the most expensive communication service provider
The tender for communications services for the superministry for the next four years ended in the middle of September. The winner was Telia. Winning means in this case that Elisa and Tele 2 were disqualified and in the end there was no one to choose ...

Mon, 03 Oct 2022 14:42:42 +0300
Swedish scientist with Estonian roots wins Nobel prize in medicine
Svante Pääbo, a Swedish paleogeneticist with Estonian roots, who sequenced the genome of the Neanderthal and discovered the previously unknown hominin Denisova, on Monday won the Nobel medicine prize.

Fri, 30 Sep 2022 16:24:53 +0300
Razor wire removed from the Russian border awaits its fate
At the Marinova dolomite quarry, which stretches along the Russian side in southeastern Estonia, on the border between gravel and grass, there are about a dozen piles of razor wire, which was unrolled along the border with Russia last autumn in order...

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 16:22:41 +0300
Defense Forces Commander would extend the duration of military service because of new weapons
Defense Forces Commander, Lieutenant General Martin Herem, would extend the duration of compulsory military service from the current 8–11 months to 12–18 months in order to keep the new weapon systems arriving in Estonia in combat readiness.

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 19:05:39 +0300
FIU refuses to reveal names of enterprises belonging to sanctioned oligarchs
The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) refuses to disclose the businesses of Russian oligarchs under sanctions in Estonia, while the Tax and Customs Board (EMTA) revealed the companies they know.

Tue, 27 Sep 2022 15:11:00 +0300
Instead of a small bridge, the RMK built a € 200,000 monster in the national park
Locals cannot comprehend why an overpass costing several hundred thousand euros and unsuitable for the environment in their opinion was built across the Lemmjõgi in the Soomaa National Park in Viljandi County in order to mow a small meadow, while th...

Mon, 26 Sep 2022 11:46:00 +0300
Fake referendums would not stop the Ukrainian forces
Slovyansk already experienced a referendum back in 2014, and then we liberated the city, said Vadim Lyakh, the mayor of Slovyansk, one of the largest cities in the Donetsk region still under Ukrainian control, and added: “Let them hold their “ref...

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 16:53:03 +0300
Estonia terminates mission in the area taken over by the Wagner mercenaries
According to current plans, the number of Estonian troops on military missions next year will be smaller by a hundred than in 2021 because operations in the main mission area in Mali will be terminated.

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 16:42:15 +0300
Those escaping from the Russian mobilization cannot expect a future in Estonia
The partial mobilization announced by Russian President Vladimir Putting on Wednesday morning may lead to pressure on the Estonian border by Russian men who wish to evade it.

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 15:41:20 +0300
Reform Party’s popularity declining: no more «Kaja effect» or low wage earners’ support
Support of the leader of the political parties’ ratings, the Reform Party, has been in decline for a little over a month, while at the same time, the popularity of the Estonian Conservative People's Party (EKRE) has increased, being almost at the s...

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 17:23:00 +0300
Russian students in Narva: returning home is tantamount to suicide
The board of the Riigikogu accepted a collective appeal asking for help to students who are Russian citizens and wish to stay in Estonia. The petition forwarded to the Foreign Affairs Committee gathered 2,223 signatures in less than 24 hours in Augus...

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:54:37 +0300
Ambassador Heusgen doesn't want to offer podium for Putinist propaganda
Unless Vladimir Putin is ready to withdraw from Ukraine, he shouldn’t be offered a podium at the next Munich Security Conference, says the conference’s new chair Ambassador Christoph Heusgen as a response to a hypothetical question what would he ...

Mon, 19 Sep 2022 20:09:44 +0300
The Riigikogu will scrutinize the voting right of Russian citizens
Although the chancellor of justice has expressed the view that Isamaa's desire to revoke the right of foreigners living in Estonia to vote in local elections is rather contrary to the constitution, both the representatives of the Reform Party and EKR...

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 11:59:00 +0300
An old law raises the salary of top civil servants
Senior civil servants can expect a sizeable salary increase next year because their salary in indexed according to an old law.

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:55:00 +0300
President Zelenskyi’s close advisor: Attacking Crimea is a key issue for Ukraine
Mykhailo Podolyak, can we say that Ukraine is how holding strategic initiative in the war?I would say that the third stage of the war has begun, where Ukraine has the tactical-operational initiative. The first stage of the war was the battles and the...

Wed, 14 Sep 2022 17:51:41 +0300
Cans become smaller, price goes up: covert price rise in Estonia’s shops
You go to the store and want to buy your favorite 200-gram pack of butter. But wait: there are only 185 grams left in the package, although the price is the same. This is the way consumers are being tricked out of their money.

Fri, 09 Sep 2022 15:58:00 +0300
German military cemetery in East Viru County was defaced with war symbols
A person or persons unknown had vandalized the German military cemetery in Ahtme, East Viru County, by defacing memorial plaques and spraying pro-war symbols on them.

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 11:19:00 +0300
Russian citizens with tourist visa can only dream of the Baltic border
The foreign ministers of the Baltic states reached an agreement in Kaunas on Wednesday that from the end of September at the latest, citizens of the Russian Federation with a Schengen visa will not be allowed to enter the Baltic states.

Wed, 07 Sep 2022 17:04:07 +0300
Estonia’s embassy in Moscow is prepared for possible provocations
The Estonian embassy in Moscow has received threats after the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that it could be stoned. According to Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu, the security of our embassy is constan...

Tue, 06 Sep 2022 17:04:00 +0300
Trucker’s appeal brought supporters of the Russian army to court
The new Article 91 of the Penal Code concerning supporting aggression against the state, which the Estonian courts have never handled since the restoration of independence, has already been used to prosecute several individuals. All this happened as ...

Mon, 05 Sep 2022 12:02:00 +0300
Stalnukhin: I was holding myself back
The board of the Center Party condemned the statement of Mikhail Stalnukhin, a member of the Riigikogu center faction and a member of the Narva City Council, for his statement in the Russian-language Youtube channel of the Slavia portal where he desc...

Fri, 02 Sep 2022 18:49:04 +0300
Officials disguised their arbitrary action with lies
The proposal for faster employment of Ukrainian doctors and nurses was rejected at the latest sitting of the Riigikogu Social Affairs Committee. Officials described the extension of special treatment to all citizens of third countries a political dec...



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