The forming of the divisional structure agreed at the summer NATO summit is at least reaching legal formalization. Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur (RE) wants to enter the government in the next few weeks by changing the statutes of the defense forces. ...

Wind farm developers fear that the state's radical plan to speed up the introduction of wind energy may result in the opposite – slow down the construction of wind farms. The most serious point of contention is the state's desire to start looking f...

Reform Party MP Marko Mihkelson, who has been at the center of a scandal following media reports about him having taken inappropriate photos of children, decided to step down from the position of chairman of the Estonian parliament's foreign affairs ...

The Unemployment Insurance Fund received 17 notices of collective redundancies between October 1 and November 4. However, Lauri Kool, the PR adviser of the Fund, emphasizes that this is not the final number, because these statistics do not include th...

Although the Finnish Ministry of Economy saw the Estonians as shareholders of the Inkoo LNG terminal, the government put an end to their hopes and expectations.

Commander of the Defense League, Brigadier General Riho Ühtegi, yesterday quoted the legendary general of the War of Independence, Aleksander Tõnisson: “Every Red must meet the bullet at every corner, every tree, every bush.” It was meant to ex...

Several law amendments are underway in Estonia, which would subject a number of companies to the control of the Financial Supervision Authority (FSA). The head of the agency, Kilvar Kessler, says, however, that until fines are not increased, the crim...

More allies could adopt the societal approach as Estonia when helping Ukraine, says Rachel Ellehuus, top representative of the US Department of Defense at the NATO headquarters.

The number of rental apartments in Tallinn has steeply increased and experts explain it with two main factors. Those seeking for an apartment can negotiate significantly lower rent than in the spring and the cost of already closed deals may drop.

It happened a few years ago, when a parent, whose name we will not disclose, accidentally discovered pictures on his child's cell phone, the contents of which allegedly made his legs give way. It was that shocking to him.

Despite the popular practice of marketing Estonia as a digital state, the speed of home Internet here is lower than that of such “digital giants” as Russia, Moldova, Bulgaria or Serbia.

Estonia brings forward the ban on oil products imported from Russia. If the government approves the decision, the ban will come into effect from the beginning of December, Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu (Isamaa) confirmed to Postimees.

It came as a surprise to Prime Minister Kaja Kallas that Interior Minister Lauri Läänemets recommended Veiko Kommusaar as the candidate for the position of director general of the Police and Border Guard Board (PPA), because she had previously cons...

The timeline of the circumstances leading Keit Pentus-Rosimannus (Reform Party) to the European Court of Auditors suggests that former finance minister Pentus-Rosimannus got fed up with politics and the Court of Auditors was a golden umbrella for her...

Reporters of Postimees had the opportunity to spend a day on the southern front to observe the activities of the tactical air reconnaissance platoon, or aerorozvidka, of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The group of a few dozen pilots is led by a 47-year...

The Riigikogu yesterday condemned the annexation of the territory of Ukraine and declared the Russian regime terrorist.

Russian forces were driven away from Mykolaiv in early April but the frontline is still close to the city. Kherson is less than a hundred kilometers away and therefore life in the region’s capital is anything but peaceful.

Having arrived in Mykolayiv near the southern front, the Postimees reporters found out that even though the air raid warnings sound in the city every day with short breaks and the Russian troops randomly attack residential districts with rockets and ...

Many language enthusiasts have expressed concern recently - the Institute of the Estonian Language (EKI) is doing something incomprehensible with the written Estonian language. We have heard the signal: the language norms and style assessments taught...

After the French writer Yoann Barbereau had fled from Irkutsk, Siberia, where all his friends had told him that despite the evidence against him being fabricated, the court would sentence him to a long prison term, and hiding in the French Embassy in...

Minister of Economic Affairs Riina Sikkut (SDE) is being treated unfairly now. When we heard the news the day before yesterday that the LNG terminal would be located in Finland after all, rather than in Paldiski in Estonia, it was Sikkut who came und...

Viktoria, an artist, and her partner, Danil, a programmer, heard every explosion in Kherson since July, when the Ukrainian forces fired from a distance at the Antonivka bridge, along which the Russians were transporting equipment and ammunition to th...

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 “...

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.

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.