ECM, the Munich, Germany-based record label known in Estonia for helping highlight Arvo Pärt’s music for the global audience back in the 1980s, has released an album by Cyrillus Kreek – an Estonian composer internationally virtually unknown until now. “The Suspended Harp of Babel” was recorded in Tallinn’s Transfiguration Church in August …
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Estonia’s e-residency programme has since its launch earned the state €41 million – €31 million of which is direct tax revenue, the team behind the state-owned initiative announced. Businesses founded by Estonia’s e-residents have earned the state close to €31 million in tax revenue since the programme’s launch in December …
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The Estonian government has decided to contribute €50,000 to alleviate the humanitarian situation in Sudan, a country in northeastern Africa. On the initiative of Germany and in cooperation with the United Nations, the European Union and Sudan, a high-level partnership conference on Sudan was held on 26 June. Estonia participated …
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Fortumo, the mobile payments services provider, founded in Tartu, Estonia, has been acquired by the London Stock Exchange-listed mobile payments platform, Boku. Fortumo was founded in Tartu in 2007 as a spin-off of the mobile services company, Mobi Solutions, by entrepreneurs Rain Rannu and Veljo Otsason. The company offers various …
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Approximately 500 people turned out in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, for a peaceful solidarity rally, showing support to the Black community in the United States and taking a stand against racism in Estonia. The Black Lives Matter rallies have taken place across the US and Europe since the end of …
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The Estonian Fashion Festival took off on 10 June online, featuring three fashion shows and highlighting the work of 30 designers, with a focus on sustainability and slow fashion. All the shows this year take place without an audience and are streamed instead, broadcasted by the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian …
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According to one of the most important higher education lists, the QS World University Rankings, the University of Tartu now holds its best global position ever. The university’s position in the rankings has improved from 501 in 2012 to 285 for the 2020/2021 academic year, its highest ever and sixteen places higher than last …
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Veljo Tormis, one of the most important Estonian choral composers, would have turned 90 this year; to celebrate the anniversary, a new namesake virtual centre will be opened in August 2020. “The 90th anniversary of the birth of the great contemporary choral composer, Veljo Tormis, will be celebrated worldwide with …
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The Tallinn-based company, Comodule, has launched its electric scooter called Tuul – the first electric scooter developed and manufactured in Estonia. Comodule’s story started off when three founders of the company – Kristjan Maruste, Teet Praks and Heigo Varik – were still students at the Tallinn University of Technology and …
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This year’s e-Governance Conference, an annual Estonia-led event that brings together digital transformation makers and experts from around the world, was held virtually; despite the disruption caused by the current coronavirus crisis, a record number of over 1,100 participants from 135 countries had registered for the event. The 2020 e-Governance …
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