The war in Ukraine has led several of the Kremlin's traditional allies to reassess their partnerships with Moscow, foreign affairs commentator Toomas Alatalu writes.

The Tallinn-based Harju County Court on Wednesday found Svetlana Burceva guilty of violating international sanctions and treason and sentenced her to six years imprisonment.

President Putin has remained silent on Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb, but he is surely contemplating a response. Looking at photos of the self-destroyed containers from which the drones were launched, and reconstructions of their original appearance,...

Increasingly alarming messages are coming from across our and Finland's borders with Russia, with Russia working to restore its military capabilities. What to pay attention to and how to interpret these developments is discussed by Erkki Koort, secur...

The Estonian Internal Security Service (ISS) expelled a man from Estonia as a preventive measure against security threats. The man had been contacted by a Russian intelligence service.

Russia's aggression in Ukraine is not merely a military conflict – it is the last, desperate attempt of a war criminal, the autocratic dictator Vladimir Putin, to hold on to a throne that has begun to wobble beneath him, former politician and milit...

Ahead of the NATO defense ministers' meeting in Brussels on Thursday, Estonian Minister of Defense Hanno Pevkur and his Italian counterpart Guido Crosetto confirmed in a joint statement that Italy will deploy its SAMP/T air defense system to Estonia ...

Ukraine dealt the aggressor an effective and devastating blow at five airfields, even in eastern Siberia, likely damaging dozens of extremely valuable aircraft. It no longer matters whether the estimated damage is two or seven billion euros or dollar...

The Estonian Ministry of Justice and Digital Affairs have submitted a draft agreement on prison leasing between Estonia and Sweden for interministerial coordination within the government -- the agreement would allow Sweden to place up to 600 low-risk...

The Estonian parliament on Wednesday passed a law to withdraw from the convention prohibiting the use, stockpiling, production, and transfer of anti-personnel mines and requiring their destruction -- known as the Ottawa Convention -- due to the deter...

It may happen that a few months before the local government elections, the ruling coalition in Tallinn will fall apart and a new one – a coalition of the Reform Party and the Center Party – will emerge. This assumption is supported by the coopera...

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) organized a spectacular and insanely destructive attack on the Russian Air Force. There is no doubt that Russian intelligence failed, but what should Estonia learn from this, Erkki Koort, security expert at Posti...

As the migratory pressure on the Latvian-Belarusian border has not decreased, the Estonian Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) on Monday sent a new team to assist the ESTPOL10 police mission there on a rotational basis.

It is a somewhat strange experience when you realize that more and more people prefer not to talk about certain topics, or if they do, they speak in hints or in a subdued voice, cautiously glancing around, columnist Maarja Vaino writes.

The repair works on the Estlink 2 electricity interconnection, which began in May, are progressing faster than planned, and the date for returning the connection to the market has been moved forward from mid-July to June 25, Estonian transmission sys...

Estonia has decided to end talks with Russia regarding the Narva River navigation buoys, as despite efforts to reach an agreement with Russia on the location of the buoys, the contacts have not been successful.

According to the latest Eurobarometer survey, Europeans' trust in the EU is at its highest in 18 years, and support for the euro is at an all-time high.

Russians may want the war to continue, but they are not willing to fight it themselves, columnist Andrey Kuzichkin writes.

Life expectancy at birth was 79.5 years in Estonia in 2024, according to Statistics Estonia. Among European countries, Estonia has had the biggest increase in life expectancy in the last three decades. The number of healthy life years at birth is 58....

The new coalition agreement is shifting away from civil society and toward a society shaped by the ultra-wealthy, a trend that is also evident in forestry and conservation, MP Tiit Maran (SDE) writes.

State Prosecutor Triinu Olev-Aas revealed at the end of last week during court hearings in Harju County Court—specifically in sessions previously declared closed to the public—what was discussed in Aivo Peterson’s trial. It emerged, among other...

The Russian Navy has stolen a wave buoy belonging to TalTech's department of marine systems from Estonia's exclusive economic zone and transported it to Kaliningrad, Estonian public broadcaster ERR reports.

The lengthy coalition agreement contains many costly promises, but avoids discussing funding.

Estonia's Central Criminal Police and the Office of the Prosecutor General have identified and issued an international arrest warrant for Moroccan citizen Adrar Khalid, aged 25, who is suspected of unlawfully accessing and downloading data from the c...

According to the new coalition agreement, national defense and security continue to be one of the main topics, and the acquisition of ammunition is considered important, as well as, for example, increasing the number of the defenders of the state.