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TALLINN - Seven former interior ministers of Estonia have addressed a letter to Interior Minister Mart Helme, demanding that the Estonian C...

A botched attempt by a nationalist party to oust the head of police has pushed Estonia's squabbling government to the brink of collapse.

An ambitious project to build the longest undersea rail tunnel in the world between Helsinki and Tallinn is being held up by the Estonian government over ...

The charms of Tallinn's Old Town are irresistible: pastel-coloured houses and lantern-lit alleys, brook-no-invader castle walls and delicate spires. A waiter in ...

Estonian Prime Minister Juri Ratas moved to keep his coalition intact after it almost collapsed due to a failed attempt by the nationalist junior partner to oust the ...

TALLINN - Prime Minister Juri Ratas is to host former Estonian government leaders at Stenbock House in Tallinn on Monday to exchange though...

Estonian Catholics are hoping to have their first local saint within a few years, as Archbishop Eduard Profittlich's cause for canonization nears ...

U.S. retail giant Amazon has established a subsidiary, Amazon Data Services Estonia OÜ, fueling speculation that the company is seeking to establish a data ...

President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda is on an official visit to Estonia next week, where he will attend the annual restoration of independence day reception at ...

Estonian government has set aside EUR 22 million for the construction of a new public television building, as reported by Estonian public media ERR.

The Estonian government is trying to make applying for and issuing identification documents abroad easier by introducing an electronic application environment ...

NEW DELHI: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu will embark on a trip to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia from August 17-21, the first ever high-level visit from India to ...

Helir-Valdor Seeder, leader of Estonian coalition party Isamaa, has confirmed that the government has agreed on his proposed pension reform, as reported by ...

The government of Estonia has expressed doubts about the business case underlying a €15bn plan to build the world's longest undersea tunnel between ...

TALLINN - By 2022, all IT infrastructure of Estonian general education and vocational schools will be renovated -- the updating of the schools' internal networks ...

In its relations with the U.S., Estonia considers its primary strategic objective to be ensuring the U.S.' active participation and involvement in all aspects of ...

Erkki Bahovski, editor-in-chief of ICDS Diplomaatia magazine, wrote in an opinion article published in Postimees on 6 August, that if a referendum on the EU ...

The ultra-conservative former US presidential candidates, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum, quietly visited Estonia in August; there is no information on why ...

The vice president of India, M. Venkaiah Naidu, is to visit Estonia from 20-21 August; it's the first high-level visit from India to Estonia.

TALLINN - Some 9,000 people gathered in the central Estonian county town Paide on Friday and Saturday to take part in the seventh Opinion Festival, the ...

In addition to buying, Russians, Finns and Swedes, the most common foreign buyers of real esate in Estonia, have begun selling properties in Estonia as well, ...

TALLINN - The Estonian minister of education and research, Mailis Reps, and the Serbian minister of education, science and technological development, ...

Estonia-based EstateGuru has ambitious plans to take a share of between €3bn and €5bn of the European alternative real estate financing market, ...

Since joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union (EU) in 2004, Estonia has been an exemplar of rationality and democratic ...

Estonia's role in the world is not only related to our geographical location, instead, our future is increasingly shaped by global developments. Who will become a ...

Estonia's cherished Song Celebrations take place under the famous arch at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds – but how was the arch built?

A booze tax war has broken out between Baltic neighbours Latvia and Estonia, who are among the EU's biggest consumers of alcohol.

TALLINN – The Estonian government at its Thursday sitting endorsed a draft agreement whereby Estonia and Japan would be able to issue to y...

Prime Minister Jüri Ratas (Centre) hosted his predecessors, the previous prime ministers of Estonia, at Stenbock House on Monday.

Danske Bank's compliance head Philippe Vollot is on a hiring spree, but parts of its international network might still be too risky.

Dr. Martin Aidnik from the Tallinn University Trade Union speaks about the strike in Estonia calling for increased funds for research.

TALLINN - Estonia's leading entertainment provider Apollo Group OU opened its first new concept Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) restaurant in the Latvian ...

After gaining independence from Russia in 1991, the government of Estonia set out to.

Businessmen in Estonia are prepared to support Interior Minister Mart Helme's proposed changes for attraction of foreign workforce. However, it is noted that ...

Estonia's Prime Minister Juri Ratas speaks to the press as he arrives for an European Council Summit at The Europa Building in Brussels, on June 30, 2019.

Following the decision to close down Danske Bank's banking activities in Estonia, an agreement to transfer all lending activities for business customers has ...

Estonia says it will refuse to recognise Russian passports controversially offered to residents in separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine. Vladimir Putin earlier this ...

Saber Strike 18 is the eighth iteration of the long-standing U.S. Army Europe-led cooperative training exercise designed to enhance interoperability among allies ...

While Prime Minister and Centre Party chairman Jüri Ratas has reaffirmed Estonia's continuing on its current foreign policy course, including continued active ...

*Fresh* off his time on the NIT runner-up Lipscomb Bisons team, former Franklin Road Academy standout Rob Marberry will keep his hoops career alive in Estonia ...

Tartu, Estonia-based Solarstone, which produces building-integrated solar panels (BIPV) suitable for both modern and traditional rooftops, is making plans to ...

The Estonian government approved the e-Residency 2.0 action plan at a Cabinet meeting on Thursday, with the objective of making the e-Residency program ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has decided not to recognize passports issued by Russia to residents of Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts after April 24 ...

Negotiations of the withdrawal of all Soviet and later Russian troops left in Estonia began immediately after the latter regained its independence in 1991. After a ...

Some 1.7 million foreign tourists visited Estonia in the second quarter of 2019, 2 percent fewer than in the second quarter of 2018, the Bank of Estonia said on ...

Thousands of apartment blocks across Estonia were built in the 1950s as temporary housing. Now an EU project in Tartu is transforming some into sustainable ...

Paris court rules against the victims of the MS Estonia boat crash between Tallinn and Stockholm in 1994.

America does things big. Our Super Bowl attracts 100000 fans and a hundred million TV viewers; New Year's Eve on Times Square draws a million celebrants.

The tactic of the Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE), the party to make the most noise by far recently, has paid off: if the Riigikogu elections were to ...

In a response to Minister of Foreign Affairs Urmas Reinsalu (Isamaa) on Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed readiness to increase ...

TALLINN, July 29. /TASS/. The Russian embassy in Estonia has condemned the ceremony organized on July 27 to commemorate the 20th Waffen-SS division in ...

The Russian national caught speeding and expelled from Estonia earlier this week has been identified as Evgeni Kabaev, a soccer player for FCI Levadia, daily ...

The lending of international businesses operating in Estonia to parent and sister companies abroad during the second quarter of 2019 increased both on year ...

Several e-residents, spanning the globe from Vancouver, Canada, to Seoul, Korea, have formed EERICA – the Estonian E-Residents' International Chamber ...

On 5 August, the Estonian ambassador to the United States, Jonatan Vseviov, signed a new memorandum of cooperation with the US state of Maryland with the ...

Several Estonian experts agree that the purpose of Russia's recent decision to establish a permanent heliport on the Gulf of Finland island of Gogland, located ...

At an extraordinary meeting on Monday, the Supervisory Board of the Bank of Estonia elected Maive Rute as the central bank's new deputy governor.

Estonian MEP has demanded a “final solution” for Syrian refugees who break the law in Europe, in an apparent echoing of the language used by the Nazi ...

In connection with Estonia's participation in Expo 2020 Dubai, Estonian companies have been given the opportunity to apply for a one-off grant in the amount of ...

Publishers Matrix Kirjastus have a new translation of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf out. What according to earlier announcements is an edition of 1000 is ...

Explore the home of Arvo Pärt and fabulous choral singing.

The number of new cases of HIV being diagnosed in Estonia remains on a downward trend, thanks in large part to expanded harm reduction services and ...

Earlier this week, Estonian Ambassador to the U.S. Jonatan Vseviov and Maryland Governor Larry Hogan signed a new Memorandum of Cooperation in ...

Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu has embarked on a three-nation visit to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia today.

TALLINN – The Estonian government at a Cabinet sitting on Thursday approved national real estate investments for the next few years, with approximately 83 ...

Minister of Foreign Affairs Urmas Reinsalu (Isamaa) reached an agreement with Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó according to ...

The annual Opinion Festival again takes place in its traditional place right in the heart of Estonia – the town of Paide; the main theme in 2019 is “Future” and the ...

Estonia's Finance Minister Martin Helme has announced that excise tax revenue from the first month after the rate's reduction has increased 40% when ...

Smartphones are becoming an ever-larger part of the lives of small children in Estonia – parents use the devices to entertain and educate the children, but also ...

The ruling of a French court in a compensation case over the tragic sinking of Estonia ferry in 1994 has been described as a big disappointment by lawyer of the ...

TALLINN - Enefit Green, subsidiary of the state-owned Estonian energy group Eesti Energia, saw electricity production of 64 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in July, ...

Chef Artur Kazaritski, currently working at Copenhagen's three Michelin star restaurant Geranium, will represent Estonia at the European final of the world's most ...

A plan to build the world's longest undersea rail tunnel has hit its first snag. Financing of 15 billion euros ($16.8 billion) was agreed this year for the tunnel to link ...

Travelogue: FRANCIS LUNGU, Tallinn, Estonia IT WAS easy to take offence and even raise accusations of racism. “Francis, tell us something, is it true that you ...

Fur farms in Estonia have been closing their doors, citing economic factors. Only one company remains in operation in the country.

Estonian holding company Rail Baltic Estonia OÜ has postponed until Sept. 3 the deadline for submissions in an international design solution competition for the ...

LSP Interlex takes 60% stake in Grata, a boutique LSP in the highly fragmented Estonian market.

Estonia has the necessary funding for Rail Baltica planned into its budget and will not need to take out any loans for its construction, the Ministry of Finance said ...

The average interest rate on housing loans in Estonia was 2.6 percent and the average rate for corporate loans 2.9 percent in June, which may indicate reduced ...

The temporary employment of foreign top specialists in Estonia should be encouraged as it would help bring world-class know-how to the country and thus also ...

The captain of an Estonian fishing trawler, the Roxen, which was impounded in Russia's Kaliningrad exclave in May, has returned to Estonia after being ...

A plan to build the world's longest undersea rail tunnel has hit its first snag.

Such encounters are a regular feature in the skies over Europe and the Arctic, and those skies have been busy in recent days.

The Typhoon fighter jets demonstrated the sizable scope of the Royal Air Force's (RAF) contribution to European security after scrambling from two locations in ...

Britain's Royal Air Force intercepted Russian aircraft in two separate incidents Thursday, one near British airspace and the other near Estonian airspace.

For the third year in a row, Baltic Film Days are returning to Riga, this time in honor of the 30th anniversary of the Baltic Way. On Aug. 22-23, movie theater ...

The captain of the Roxen, a Finnish trawler manned by an Estonian crew which was detained by the Border *Service* of Russia near Kaliningrad in May, was ...

An international team of scientists has revealed the remains of an intact and astonishingly preserved early modern period (late 15th – early 16th century) ...

Ukraine's Education Assembly (Освітня асамблея) is officially registered (archived copy) as a “community organization” in Ukraine. On its face, nothing about ...

25 years ago, an Estonian-Russian deal was reached between Lennart Meri and Boris Yeltsin to end years of wrangling and make the remaining thousands of ...

TALLINN - SmartLynx Airlines Estonia, the subsidiary of Latvia's SmartLynx, posted EUR 1.1 million in 2018 profit, which is 4.2 times more...

On Monday night, suicide bombers attacked the French military base in Gao, Mali, where Estonian and Malian troops are also serving. Six members of the ...

Estonian Catholics are hoping to have their first local saint within a few years, as Archbishop Eduard Profittlich's cause for canonisation nears introduction at the ...

When and where is it on? 14-15 of October 2019, Creative Hub, Tallinn, Estonia. How many years has it been going? This the first edition of the CryptoFin ...

North Estonia Medical Centre (PERH) is moving toward paperless intensive care, and signed a contract this month for the implementation of General Electric's ...

An Estonian-founded British company has partnered with HUUM, Estonia's leading sauna stove maker, to deliver sauna design and technology in the UK.

Inspired while on a vacation to Tallinn, Broadway director Tony Spinosa has written a musical about Estonia's Singing Revolution.

The European Union Affairs Committee and the Economic Affairs Committee of the Riigikogu acknowledged at a joint meeting on Monday that the rules for state ...

North-Estonia Public Transport Centre decided on Thursday that it will be terminating its public transport contract with bus operator Atko, beginning the process ...

The consumer price index (CPI) in July fell 0.1 percent compared to June but increased 2.1 percent on year. According to the Bank of Estonia, the cut in the ...