Finland bans Estonian tourists due to the country’s coronavirus infection rate
Finland is banning tourists from Estonia, starting Monday, 28 September, due to Estonia’s coronavirus infection rate. The Finnish government decided…
Remembering Estonia’s WWII refugees
In the autumn of 1944, fearful of the advancing Red Army, approximately 80,000 Estonians left their country behind and escaped…
The Estonian-initiated World Cleanup Day raises awareness about cigarette butt pollution
The third World Cleanup Day, engaging millions of people across the globe on 19 September, aims to raise awareness about…
Twenty most attractive employers in Estonia
CVKeskus, a leading online job searching platform in Estonia, has published its annual list of the most attractive employers in…
Estonian economy contracts by 6.9 per cent in the second quarter of 2020
According to Statistics Estonia, the country’s official statistics agency, in the second quarter of 2020, the Estonian gross domestic product…
An Estonian financial services marketplace closes a €1.1 million seed round
Cachet, an Estonian-founded financial services marketplace for online platform workers, has closed a €1.1 million seed round as it prepares…
Arvo Pärt celebrates his 85th birthday
Arvo Pärt, one of the most performed living composers in the world and universally the most respected Estonian, turns 85…
The Estonian National Symphony Orchestra introduces a “virtual concert hall”
The Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and its new chief conductor and artistic director, Olari Elts, will begin its 94th season…
VIDEO: Anne Akiko Meyers performs “Estonian Lullaby” by Arvo Pärt
Anne Akiko Meyers, an American concert violinist and the top-selling classical instrumentalist of 2014 on Billboard’s traditional classical charts, has…
Estonian student organisation prepares for an international solar race
An Estonian student organisation is working to compete in an international solar race in 2021 in Australia with a solar-powered…
Estonian researchers test a self-driving car at the Rally Estonia test stage
Estonian researchers from the University of Tartu and rideshare provider Bolt tested a self-driving car at the Rally Estonia test…
Estonia to boost information and communication technology cooperation with East Africa
The Estonian foreign ministry on 31 August signed a cooperation agreement with the East African Science and Technology Commission and…
Former Estonian president joins prominent Facebook critics to form an independent oversight board
A former president of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, has joined a new initiative, founded by prominent critics of the social…
Estonia donates €110,000 to the US state of Maryland
The Estonian government decided to allocate €110,000 to help the state of Maryland fight the novel coronavirus. Maryland is a…
The US and Estonia sign an agreement for collaborative research in cyber defence
The United States Army and the Estonian ministry of defence signed an agreement on 14 September that will enable the…
What helped Estonian schools successfully handle the coronavirus crisis?
In the spring of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic put students, teachers and parents to test; Estonian schools managed to adapt…
The University of Tartu among the 300 best universities in the world
The University of Tartu has achieved its best-ever ranking in this year’s Times Higher Education World University Rankings. The oldest…
The recipe for success in the Estonian basic education system
According to the PISA tests, the results of Estonian 15-year-olds are the best in Europe and among the strongest in…
Ivar Värk: The crisis in aviation is here to stay and we must adapt
The coronavirus crisis has also impacted the people and organisations who look after our safety in the air; without the…
Marleen Allemann: Estonia is showing international students the door
An amendment to the law is maturing in the Estonian interior ministry that reverses the current principles of study mobility…
Jacek Rostowski: Lessons from the Polish opposition
After years of misrule under Poland’s Law and Justice party, a candidate representing the mainstream opposition almost managed to wrest…
Estonian scientist leads the EU’s high-level climate negotiations
Since the beginning of the German presidency of the European Union in July, Annela Anger-Kraavi, a Cambridge-educated Estonian scientist, has…
Top 12 most outstanding Estonian statespeople
On the occasion of the day celebrating the restoration of independence, Estonian World has chosen 12 of Estonia’s most outstanding…
Lennart Meri, the president many loved, and everybody respected
Today, the former president and foreign minister, Lennart Meri, would’ve celebrated his 90th birthday; a Statesman with a capital S,…
