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Earlier this week, Estonian Centre for Defence Investment (ECDI) Director General Kusti Salm signed an agreement with representatives from Belgium, Spain, ...

Swedish furniture giant IKEA is launching its Estonian e-store and opening its first location in Estonia, a limited showroom and online order pickup point, ...

On Aug. 20, 1991, an attempted coup by Communist hardliners in Moscow precipitated a succession of events in Estonia that, on the same day, led to a ...

President Kersti Kaljulaid will work in South Estonia this week, where she will get to know communities in Põlva and Võru counties.

Bolt, the ride-hailing *service* formerly known as Taxify, said it has begun operating a food-delivery business in its native Estonia, and will launch in other ...

Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia mark the 30th anniversary of the 1989 'Baltic Way', a historic anti-Soviet protest that saw nearly 2 million people ...

"Truth and Justice" has been put forward as Estonia's Oscar nomination for best foreign language film.

TALLINN - Estonian Minister of Population Riina Solman, who was on a visit to Latvia on Friday, met with Imants Paradnieks, demographic aff...

In a 2019 report published by think tank Basel Institute on Governance, Estonia has been ranked among the 125 countries examined as the country with the ...

A consortium of European countries, led by Estonia, agreed to develop unmanned military ground vehicles on Friday.

A Tallinn-based Hong Kong startup entrepreneur proposed the Baltic Way-inspired human chain in a secret internet forum and the activists are turning the idea ...

Lidl Eesti OÜ, the Estonian representative of German global discount supermarket chain, made €21.5 million worth of investments in long-term assets in Estonia ...

Estonia President Kersti Kaljulaid said on Monday that Finance Minister Martin Helme, one of the leaders of the far-right EKRE party, was unfit to serve in the ...

Estonia has selected Tanel Toom's debut feature 'Truth and Justice' as its entry for the best international feature film category at the 2020 Oscars.

The Chicagoland Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians gathered on 25 August in Grant Park, next to the Buckingham Fountain, to commemorate the Baltic Way ...

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

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

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 ...

The Estonian Film Institute has selected Tanel Toom's drama, “Truth and Justice”, as the country's nomination for the foreign language Academy Award.

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

The Kai Art Center—a new cultural hub that will present four main exhibitions a year, boast a one-hundred-seat theater, and serve as an education center—will ...

On Friday, Aug. 23, the 40th anniversary of the Baltic Appeal, Minister of Foreign Affairs Urmas Reinsalu (Isamaa) presented ceremonial plaques of appreciation ...

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 ...

Finns have been able to buy drugs in Estonia based on a digital prescription since late January this year, and so far have made use of this option on 3664 ...

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

Whether or not the Estonian Defence Forces (EDF) will be granted additional authority for conducting military intelligence will be established in court, Eerik ...

On 23 August 1939, the German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Vyacheslav Molotov, his counterpart in the Soviet Union, signed a ...

Footwear chain Deichmann opened its first store in Tallinn's Nautica shopping centre on Thursday, with a second planned to open in the city later this year.

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

ESTONIA: The Ministry of Economic Affairs & Communications and the Ministry of the Environment are preparing a railway electrification strategy after receiving ...

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 ...

During a visit to Latvia on Friday, Minister of Population Riina Solman (Isamaa) met with Imants Paradnieks, adviser on demographic policy to the Latvian ...

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 ...

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

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 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 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 Baltic state has done much to reinvent itself since achieving independence in 1991.

VILNIUS - President Gitanas Nauseda says he respects the Estonian leader's decision to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

OVERVIEW OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES. MANAGEMENT COMMENTARY. We remind you that since we changed our financial year, the previous financial year ...

TALLINN: A committee led by the Estonian Film Institute has selected Truth and Justice by Tanel Toom as Estonia's candidate for the 92nd Academy of Mo...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Naga band Abiogenesis had a successful tour of Europe recently where they enthralled the Europeans with their brand of Naga Howey Music and Bamhum.

Many Kurds in the diaspora have married Estonians.

Following the reduction of the alcohol excise duty, strong liquor sales in Estonia increased 20-25 percent at various retail chains. According to stores, part of this ...

As previously announced in 2017, Andree Uustal, country manager of AB “Novatoras“ Estonian subsidiary "Novatours“ OÜ, was recalled from his position as ...

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 ...

AS Merko Ehitus Eesti, part of AS Merko Ehitus group, has started the construction of the first stage of Lahekalda residential development project in Tallinn.

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

In the Estonian capital, Tallinn, on August 23, 1989 — the 50th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union that ...

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 ...

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

Central and Eastern European countries' banking sectors may be fueling pro-cyclical credit creation due to a lack of competition, a working paper published by ...

In light of the recent violent oppression of opposition protests in Moscow, Minister of Culture Tõnis Lukas (Isamaa) believes that President Kersti Kaljulaid should ...

Estonia's energy group Eesti Energia is all set to import gas from Russia's largest private gas company Novatek via Lithuania's LNG terminal based in Klaipeda, ...

Thirty years ago, 2 million people in the Baltic states made a human chain to demand independence from the Soviet Union. Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians ...

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 ...

The Estonian government approved objectives on Thursday according to which the processing of identity documents, i.e. passports and ID cards, at foreign ...

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

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 ...

August 23, 2019. The following is a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: August 23 will mark 80 years since the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop ...

The Estonian Center for Defense Investments on Friday signed an agreement with representatives from Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia and Spain for ...

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

Some 60 teachers of Estonian culture and language working in schools abroad are gathering in the small town of Tõstamaa in Pärnu County for the last few ...

Sergei Lõhmus, a resident of Russia's Pechory District who was arrested as a suspect in treason in Moscow in mid-August, holds dual Estonian-Russian ...

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

Sunbathers and swimmers at Lake Harku in Tallinn, Estonia, were horrified to discover they were accompanied by a huge snake that had been taken by its ...

Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid will be one of the main guests of this year's Bled Strategic Forum. Kaljulaid, who has many words of praise for Slovenia and ...

Blockchain, the leading provider of cryptocurrency products, has chosen Estonian personal identification services startup Veriff for its online identity verification ...

Registration opens for free Estonian-language courses today at 10 a.m. The courses are expected to fill up very quickly.

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 ...

The current Estonian government doesn't consider exiting the mining of and production of energy from oil shale as sensible, Minister of Finance Martin Helme ...

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

The 30th anniversary of Baltic independence was marked last week by Latvian carrier, airBaltic, in a ceremony at Riga's Airport. On Wednesday, August 21, ...

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

The human chain paved the way to Baltic independence, and, on the eve of its 30th anniversary, offers inspiration for Hong Kong protesters.

Norwegian Electric Systems has signed a contract with the Estonian shipbuilder Baltic Workboats to deliver upgrade of the…

Estonian candidate for EU commissioner and Centre Party parliamentary group chairwoman, Kadri Simson doesn't think the current coalition will fail because of ...

Historian and senior researcher Kaarel Piirimäe discusses the events that made it possible for Estonia to restore its independence and the Baltic Way. In the last ...

The Irish Estonian Business Network, an organization aimed at fostering Estonian-Irish relations in business, culture and other areas, has ceased its operations ...

Estonian gene scientists are punching above their weight globally – Mait Metspalu and Kristiina Tambets from the Institute of Genomics at the University of Tartu ...

Hong Kong braces for anti-government demonstrations on Friday, including an anniversary homage to the 1989 human chain against Soviet rule of the Baltic ...