What options does Estonia have if Russia intentionally guides a Ukrainian drone toward Estonia in such a way that it strikes a petrol station or even a residential house, journalist Jaanus Piirsalu asks.

The first stationary counter-drone detection and surveillance systems have been installed along three sections of the southeastern Estonian land border between the Estonia–Latvia–Russia tripoint and Luhamaa. The remaining sections of the land bor...

According to data from Statistics Estonia, the gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 2.4 percent in the first quarter of 2026 compared to the same period last year. At current prices, GDP in the first quarter was 10.2 billion euros.

Chess taught the world's greatest chess player, former world champion Garry Kasparov, to think several moves ahead, to seek out the opponent's weaknesses, to see systems as a whole, and to distinguish strategy from noise. He approaches politics with ...

I conducted an analysis based on a methodology that was developed at the Government Office at the time. The assumption is that the escalation of any conflict in modern society can be viewed through the quantitative frequency of communication. The cur...

When looking at juvenile offences in 2025, we learn that «after two years, the number of crimes committed by minors exceeded the 4,000 threshold again in 2025. The number of registered crimes increased by 181 and misdemeanours by 341. The most commo...

Postimees writes about the defense fund, which began its investment activities a year ago and has finally started making funding decisions. The fund has faced behind-the-scenes criticism: until last autumn, only one funding decision had been made (Ra...

Last week, a Ukrainian court sentenced Oleksandr Chernov, who exposed the embezzlement of funds by the NGO Slava Ukraini, to four years in prison. The organizers of the fraud, however, remain free to this day.

During a meeting in Tallinn today with Estonian Minister of Defence Hanno Pevkur, Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, announced that Poland will once again deploy its fighter jets to help pr...

Sometimes you even have to tell a friend directly: don't do this or stop doing it this way. Now is that moment between Estonia and Ukraine. This is what Postimees journalist Jaanus Piirsalu and reserve officer and film director Ilmar Raag (Parempools...

At midday on Tuesday, a Romanian F-16 fighter jet participating in NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission shot down a military drone that had crossed the state border between Lake Võrtsjärv and the town of Põltsamaa.

The experience of France and Belgium shows that sometimes enforcing elementary maritime law requirements is sufficient against Russia's shadow fleet. However, the fear of Russian escalation is preventing Baltic Sea states from fulfilling their repeat...

After the May 9th parade, Vladimir Putin met with veterans. At the meeting, he announced that the war in Ukraine "may end soon." This statement may reflect intensified discussions within Russia's inner circles of power about the inevitable need to en...

Mandatory conscription-based armies have been replaced by professional forces based on volunteerism with small reserves. However, the abolition of mandatory conscription has several drawbacks.

The United States Department of Justice will not file an appeal against the ruling issued last August by the Seattle court in the case of Estonian crypto entrepreneurs Ivan Turõgin and Sergei Potapenko, meaning that the court decision will now enter...

Some time ago now, such a film art «spectacle» as «Don't Look Up!» was released on streaming platforms. The essence of the film consisted basically in this: the world is threatened by an apocalyptic event, scientists try to make the seriousness o...

The Estonian Centre for Defence Investments (ECDI) has signed an additional contract with the South Korean procurement organization KOTRA to acquire three Chunmoo rocket launchers from the defense company Hanwha Aerospace.

Sweden could have three main roles in the military defense of the Nordic-Baltic region: helping to repel a Russian attack in the Far North, participating in the defense of the Baltic states, and serving as a hub for allied operations throughout the r...

This year, May 9th passed relatively peacefully. Since Soviet monuments have been removed from public spaces in recent years, there are no longer as many places where conflicts could arise. The removal of Soviet monuments has yielded positive results...

On Europe Day, it is fitting to recall that Estonia, due to its location, has quite a significant role and responsibility in ensuring the security of the European Union (EU). We guard one part of the border with Russia – or as it is also said – t...

A fresh report titled «Estonian economy in the grip of global headwinds» puts Estonia before difficult choices that require honest and thorough discussion ahead of the approaching parliamentary elections.

Executives of the Turkish company ARCA Baltics Operations, which is planning to build an ammunition factory in Ida-Viru County, confirmed to Estonian Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur during his visit to Turkey that the North Kiviõli defense industry pa...

According to the Commander of the Estonian Defence Forces, Lieutenant General Andrus Merilo, the security situation is likely to deteriorate in the near future, which means Estonia must be able to win a potential war already in its initial phase.

The word «miscalculation» is a convenient fog word in Estonian intelligence risk assessments. With its help, a Russian attack on a NATO country can be called both unlikely and possible at the same time. Such a risk assessment is an escape route fro...

If one looks for the greatest threat to the European project, it is tempting to look at the periphery – post-communist countries, South European debt crises, or even Brussels institutions. But the real risk does not lie there. History shows that la...