Eveliis Vaaks

Eveliis Vaaks is a journalist and editor at Trialoog, TalTech’s business and research portal.

A military drone. Photo by Getty Images / Unsplash.

Inside Estonia’s plan to train a new drone army

By Eveliis Vaaks / November 15, 2025 / 6 minutes of reading

Estonia is preparing to train thousands of civilians in military-grade drone skills, launching an ambitious new programme that could reshape the country’s defence readiness for […]

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Although the stolen buoy did not contain sensitive information, several weeks’ worth of raw data was lost –data that had been intended for scientific research and the development of marine forecasting services. Photo by Vahur Kaldvee.

Stolen by the sea: Russia takes Estonian research buoy undetected

By Eveliis Vaaks / May 27, 2025 / 5 minutes of reading

A smart wave buoy developed by TalTech vanished from Estonian waters and reappeared in a Russian military base – without a single alarm; the incident

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