This year’s Polar Music Prize, Sweden’s most prestigious music prize, has been awarded to Beninese singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo, English music entrepreneur and the founder of Island Records, Chris Blackwell, and the Estonian composer, Arvo Pärt. The prizes will be awarded in Stockholm on 23 May and will be attended by the Swedish royal family. “The […]
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Khrystyna Didukh, a Ukrainian entrepreneur who was given safe haven in Estonia last year, organises a conference called Brave2Bloom in Tallinn from 3-4 April – to empower female entrepreneurs. On 24 February 2022, when Russia attacked Ukraine, Khrystyna Didukh, a flower wholesaler from Lviv, was on a two-day business trip to Poland. The day before
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The average salaries of Estonian teachers have lately grown faster than the average salaries overall in Estonia; however, higher salaries often include overtime or extra work, which means the teachers are overburdened, a latest report concludes. In 2022, the average salary in Estonia was €1,685, and the average teacher’s salary was €1,724, which formed 102%
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Estonia’s largest premiere festival, the Estonian Music Days, has announced the programme of contemporary music concerts taking place from 26 April to 7 May. The two central themes of this year’s festival – “Soul and Spirit” – place different emphases in the concerts of Tallinn and Tartu which at the same time complement each other
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Estonian conductor Ingrid Roose and the Paris Orchestra Choir bring Estonian composer Veljo Tormis’s choral work, “Forgotten Peoples”, to the Paris Philharmonic concert hall on 14 March. “Forgotten Peoples”, consisting of six cycles, is considered a masterpiece of Tormis’s choral work. Three parts of the cycle – “Izhorian Epic”, “Votic Wedding Songs” and “Ingrian Evenings”
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The 2022 Airport Service Quality awards named Tallinn Airport the best airport among those serving two-to-five million passengers per year. Airports Council International World and the travel technology company Amadeus on 6 March announced the winners of the 2022 Airport Service Quality awards, which recognise airports around the world offering an outstanding customer experience. One
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From 1-8 March, the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City displays 30 works from Estonian designers. The Estonian Design Days are held in cooperation with the Estonian Association of Designers and the Estonian Art Academy at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, involving also workshops and conferences. “Estonia and Mexico have been finding a new partnership in envisioning a
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The Estonian State Concert Institute (Eesti Kontsert) and Milanese production company Change Performing Arts have signed a contract with the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma for the production of the musical theatre work “Adam’s Passion” by Robert Wilson and Arvo Pärt. The work that premiered in 2015 in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, will be performed twice, on 31
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The Estonian Police and Border Guard Board has issued the 100,000th digital residency ID card; known as the e-residency, the programme that enables foreign citizens to launch a company in Estonia and thus in the EU, was launched in 2014. The Estonian state-run e-residency programme was launched with the aim of providing foreign nationals safe access
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Transition to Estonian as the language of instruction and the influx of Ukrainian refugees are set to exacerbate the problem of finding new teachers across Estonia, the Foresight Centre – a think tank at the Estonian parliament – says. The Head of the Foresight Centre, Tea Danilov, said the situation of teachers in Estonia had
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