Estonia celebrated Lasting Liberty Day on 27 March. On this day, the country’s present period of independence surpassed the length of the first period of independence from 1918 to 1940. The independent Estonian Republic was born on 24 February 1918 with the Manifesto to the Peoples of Estonia (Estonian Declaration of Independence) issued by the […]
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Experts estimate that the combined value of Estonia’s six most successful startups Creative Mobile, Grabcad, Fortumo, Transferwise, Zeroturnaround and Erply could be 305 million U.S. dollars or 235 million euros. The figure is comparable to the market value of the listed retail group Tallinna Kaubamaja, which stood at 248 million euros on Tuesday, Estonian newspaper Eesti
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The software developer ZeroTurnaround, founded in Tartu, Estonia, has acquired the Danish software company Javeleon together with the rights to all related intellectual property. The co-founders of Danish company, Allan Gregersen and Michael Rasmussen, will join forces with ZeroTurnaround’s teams in Tartu and Tallinn. Javeleon was founded in 2012 to commercialise technology built upon research
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Telecommunication company Ericsson recently released an hour-long, documentary-style film called “Life in a networked society” about e-services in Estonia. “Life in a networked society” looks into Estonia’s e-elections, e-taxes, e-school, e-medicine and other innovative solutions in public services which cut bureaucracy and costs. The film includes conversations with decision-makers such as Minister of Economic Affairs and
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People like to talk about how small Estonia is, but a recent coincidence testifies to the adage that it’s a small world as well. In 1986, two bored college freshmen in Berkeley managed to breach the Iron Curtain by randomly dialing a Soviet Union telephone number. Twenty-seven years later, the participants of the conversation crossed
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While Estonia’s exports to America and Africa declined year on year in 2012, exports to Asia grew by as much as 20%, the statistical office said on Wednesday. Export of goods by Estonia overall climbed 4% in 2012. “More than half of the goods exported from Estonia went to neighbouring countries Sweden, Finland, Russia and
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Otepää, Estonia. Winter is a busy time here for sports as competitors come to this usually sleepy town on Estonia’s southern tip. Sometimes, the scene is exactly what you would expect, like 8,500 bundled-up skiers sliding through town on a cross-country ski trek one weekend last month. Other times, though, you might see a different
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The EU funded European research project, based in Estonia, has built an electronic version of lateral line sensing on an underwater fish robot called FILOSE (Robotic FIsh LOcomotion and SEnsing). All fish have this sensing organ, but so far it had no technological counterpart on man-made underwater vehicles. Unlike any other animal, fish have a
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2,400 years ago the philosopher Socrates claimed: “I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world (kosmopolitês).” In 1937 Ernest Hemingway wrote in his novel To Have and Have Not: “In every port in the world, at least two Estonians can be found.” Under our Global Estonians feature we talk to
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By Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of Estonia, on the 95th anniversary of the Republic of Estonia in Tallinn, 24 February 2013. Today, on the 95th anniversary of Estonia, the thought of independence has, once again, become natural. It neither requires interpretation nor explanation because it is a basic truth. Just as freedom is no longer
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