Russian actress Yulia Peresild was on 5 October flown to the International Space Station to shoot scenes for an upcoming Russian film – the first time a full-length movie is being shot in space. Yulia Peresild, whose ancestors were from Estonia, and filmmaker Klim Shipenko were launched to space onboard the …
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Two unrelated discoveries place a strong question mark on the cause of the sinking of MS Estonia and one of them – by a Swedish expert group – does not rule out an explosion; the Estonian-Swedish ferry sank exactly 27 years ago, on 28 September 1994. An independent Swedish research …
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Close relatives of the people who died in the sinking of MS Estonia have organised a privately initiated expedition to the wreck of the ferry; the research vessel RS Sentinel, tasked with the job, has reached the location where the MS Estonia ferry sank on 28 September 1994 and is starting …
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As the number of accidents involving electric scooters and bicycles has increased in Estonia, an Estonian startup called Cachet has launched a “city rider insurance”. According to the startup, in the last few years, the number of lightweight vehicles and their users in Estonian cities has tripled. “In parallel, the …
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The Estonian-initiated World Cleanup Day engages millions of people across the world on 18 September. The World Cleanup Day traces its roots back to 2008, when 50,000 people came together in Estonia and cleaned up the entire country in five hours. The citizen movement, called Let’s Do It! then grew into …
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From 18 September until 26 September, the seventh Ethnic Culture Days, featuring workshops, exhibitions, concerts and overviews of the culture and customs of different nationalities take place in the Estonian capital, Tallinn. The event, organised by various NGOs and the Tallinn city government, starts with a traditional ethno-fair at the …
The Estonian capital, Tallinn, beat competition from Helsingborg, Sweden; Krakow, Poland; and Sofia, Bulgaria to become the “European Green Capital” of 2023; the competition is organised by the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union. The winner of the competition was announced on 9 September in Lahti, Finland …
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Close relatives of the people who died in the sinking of MS Estonia will organise a privately initiated expedition to the wreck of the ferry; the relatives claim that many questions related to the disaster remain unanswered by official investigations that have been conducted over the past 27 years. The …
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The latest World University Rankings, compiled by the British journal, Times Higher Education, has ranked four Estonian higher education institutions: TalTech – the Tallinn University of Technology – is ranked higher than in 2020, while the University of Tartu has kept the same position and Tallinn University has slipped; for …
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The Estonian foreign ministry invites Estonians across the world to take part in a diaspora survey. The aim of the survey is to get a better insight into the wishes and needs as well as expectations of the country’s expats abroad – for the services offered or planned by the …
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