US President Donald Trump’s aggressive Greenland policy has cranked up tensions that, in experts’ assessment, could end with the breakup of NATO’s internal unity. For now the alliance is still holding together, and it is in our interest to keep...

Vyacheslav Yefimov, a security guard at the waiting area of the Koidula border crossing who lives in Pechory, passed information to Russia on behalf of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) for at least three years about activities at the border...

It seems that a harsh joke may – at least initially – come true: that Rail Baltic will turn into a high-speed train from Tallinn to Ikla for Estonia, and not to Warsaw. At Monday’s sitting of the Riigikogu’s special anti-corruption committee,...

Tensions between the US and its European allies over the status of Greenland have sharpened in recent days, and it will likely be impossible to avoid a trade war at a time when Western unity should be directed toward supporting both the Iranian oppos...

The Baltic News Media Publishers Association, established in the middle of last year and of which Postimees is also a member, has reached its first milestone. Microsoft, one of the world’s leading technology companies, has signed a preliminary lice...

In the interests of national security, the Internal Security Service, in cooperation with the Police and Border Guard Board, expelled a Russian citizen and military serviceman from the country.

Last week, Estonia imposed a lifetime entry ban to the Schengen area on 261 Russian fighters who have taken part in the war against Ukraine. Considering the roughly 140,000 demobilised Russian soldiers and the approximately 700,000 soldiers currently...

In the amendment to the Gambling Tax Act adopted by the Riigikogu in December, there is a provision according to which gambling operators do not have to pay gambling tax this year. As a result, it is estimated that more than 20 million euros will not...

Amendments to the Gambling Tax Act were approved by the Riigikogu in December 2025, but it has now emerged that the law contains a drafting error, as a result of which the tax rate on games of chance does not apply this year. Consequently, the remote...

Over the weekend, information reached the wider public that the e-Governance Academy wishes to help communist Cuba digitise its state institutions, planning to spend 441,000 euros for this purpose. Among other things, the Academy intended to procure ...

The geopolitical rhetoric of 2026 feels increasingly like a discarded draft of George Orwell’s 1984. We see Donald Trump articulating a «Donroe Doctrine,» a transactional reimagining of the Western Hemisphere where Venezuelan oil and regional res...

The coronavirus pandemic has receded, but the virus itself has not disappeared. Now that the initial panic has passed, scientists are beginning to understand its true nature and to uncover surprising patterns. A recent doctoral dissertation defended ...

Have you ever encountered the thought experiment in which a tram is about to run over five people, but to prevent this it is possible to divert the tram onto another track where there are one or two people? The number of victims would be smaller, but...

On Tuesday, Postimees announced Heli Jürgenson, the artistic director of last year’s Song Festival, as Postimees Person of the Year 2025.

Finland detained a vessel suspected of damaging an Elisa telecommunications cable on Wednesday morning. In total, five cables connected to Estonia have been damaged in the Baltic Sea in recent days, most of which are suspected to have been affected b...

The president of Ukraine is meeting the president of the United States, while at the same time Russia’s ruler is putting on a performance meant to support Moscow’s objectives. Yet from this one can in fact read quite the opposite signs, and even ...

On a symbolic day – on Christmas Day, 25 December – freedom fighter Mart-Olav Niklus passed away. He was the last surviving of the four Estonians who in 1979 signed the petition of forty-five Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian citizens, the so‑ca...

For a long time, the vast majority of the Christian world, including the Republic of Estonia, has celebrated 24 December as Christmas Eve. But Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have one more special reason to mark this date, writes Ivar Raig.

The Internal Security Service and the State Prosecutor’s Office have terminated the criminal proceedings investigating the crash of a drone into a field on 24 August in Aakre village, Tartu County.

An explosive device that detonated in a trash bin at the Ülemiste shopping centre in Tallinn on Saturday evening injured a cleaner working at the mall. Fortunately, the person’s life is not in danger.

The apprehension of the criminal who slipped the bomb that exploded at one of Estonia’s largest shopping centers into a trash bin demonstrated the state’s rapid and effective functioning, writes security expert Erkki Koort of Postimees and the Es...

On Wednesday morning, three Russian Federation border guards violated the line of control on the Vasknarva pier, at the point where the Narva River flows out of Lake Peipus. They arrived by hovercraft, walked around on the pier, and left before the E...

Belgium demands guarantees from EU member states in order to start using frozen Russian assets. For Estonia, this would mean a liability of 450–500 million euros. Do you consider it right for EU countries to give such a guarantee to Belgium, or are...

On Wednesday morning, the Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) detected an illegal crossing of the temporary control line on the Narva River pier by three border guards of the Russian Federation.

Preparatory work began last week for the installation of the first five bunkers in southeastern Estonia, as part of the effort to establish the Baltic defense line.