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 fourth World Cleanup Day engages people from 180 countries
The Estonian-initiated World Cleanup Day engages millions of people across the world on 18 September. The World Cleanup Day traces its…
An Estonian FUBAR: How an Afghan student lost his place in university because of the Taliban – and Estonian inflexibility
An Afghan citizen was accepted to Tallinn University in November 2020 to study at the School of Natural Sciences and…
An Estonian startup offers insurance for lightweight vehicle users
As the number of accidents involving electric scooters and bicycles has increased in Estonia, an Estonian startup called Cachet has…
Estonia’s GDP grows 12.9% in Q2 2021
According to Statistics Estonia, the country’s statistics agency, in the second quarter of 2021, the gross domestic product grew by…
Estonia’s average salary grows 7.3% in Q2 2021
According to Statistics Estonia, the country’s statistics agency, in the second quarter of 2021, the average monthly gross wages and…
Tallinn celebrates the Ethnic Culture Days
From 18 September until 26 September, the seventh Ethnic Culture Days, featuring workshops, exhibitions, concerts and overviews of the culture…
Instances of decline: Estonian artists in Ida-Virumaa
Ten Estonian contemporary artists, acting as accidental anthropologists, have paid special attention to the side effects of the modern extractive…
Kristel Kont: The words remain ‒ in memory of writer Vahur Afanasjev
The acclaimed Estonian author, Vahur Afanasjev, would have turned 42 on 24 August; Kristel Kont recalls him as a writer…
Estonia has the 22nd fastest internet in the world – study
Despite Estonia touting its own horn about having a digital state and everything’s online, it’s lagging behind 21 countries in…
Self-driving shuttle to begin service in Tartu, Estonia
A self-driving shuttle, built by the Estonian company, Auve Tech, has been introduced in Tartu, Estonia’s second largest town; the…
Startup entrepreneurs: We need to help Estonian-nurtured Afghan talents
The Estonian government and Garage48, a startup organisation organising tech hackathons, have invested hundreds of thousands of euros and thousands…
A US agency adds Estonia to the “very high” COVID-19 transmission risk countries’ list
The American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, known as the CDC, has added Estonia to the list of countries…
Estonia in the grip of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the realpolitik of great powers
On 23 August 1939, the German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Vyacheslav Molotov, his counterpart in the Soviet Union,…
Estonia to accept 30 Afghan refugees
The Estonian government on 19 August decided the country is going to accept 30 Afghan refugees who have helped Estonians…
An Estonian FUBAR: How an Afghan student lost his place in university because of the Taliban – and Estonian inflexibility
An Afghan citizen was accepted to Tallinn University in November 2020 to study at the School of Natural Sciences and…
TalTech improves its global rank, Tallinn University slides
The latest World University Rankings, compiled by the British journal, Times Higher Education, has ranked four Estonian higher education institutions:…
Research: living at home may not offer protection from psychological emergency
According to a study conducted by the crisis sociology team of the University of Tartu Institute of Social Studies, living…
Sten Hankewitz: An end of an era: the Afghanistan war is over, at a tremendous cost and no result
30 August 2021 marks the day when America’s longest war, the war in Afghanistan, ended after the last US troops…
Paul Goble: Five lessons for today from the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
The 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact entails five lessons for the world today, Paul Goble, the American analyst, writer and columnist with…
Estonia must offer its former Afghan partners a safe haven – no ifs, ands or buts
Estonia should not be forgetting its partners, especially the ones that risked their lives – and it should be a…
The Chicago Bears sign Estonian Margus Hunt to their practice squad
The Chicago Bears, a football team in the National Football League in the US, has signed Estonian defensive tackle Margus…
Kristel Kont: The words remain ‒ in memory of writer Vahur Afanasjev
The acclaimed Estonian author, Vahur Afanasjev, would have turned 42 on 24 August; Kristel Kont recalls him as a writer…
Alar Karis elected president of Estonia
On Tuesday, 31 August, the Estonian parliament, Riigikogu, elected Alar Karis the new president of Estonia in a second round…
