Low-cost airline Transavia France is about to launch flights between Tallinn, Estonia, and Paris, France, in April 2024. The route will be served twice a week, on Thursdays and Sundays, from Paris Orly airport. Paris is one of the highest-volume markets for Estonia in terms of passenger numbers, but one in which there is still […]
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Paul-Tech, an Estonian startup specialising in precision agriculture, has raised €1.4 million in a seed round; the funds will be used to expand into the UK market and advance the product offering. “This investment enables us to continue our technology development and provide accurate and reliable solutions to farmers across Europe,” Mikk Plakk, the CEO
Estonian photographer Tõnu Runnel has published “Eesti”, a book of Estonian photo stories; an album of everyday life in Estonia, the book is published in both Estonian and English. Tõnu Runnel is a photographer who debuted on the pages of this very magazine in 2017. His contribution included photo stories such as Eesti blues, Eesti
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The University of Tartu, Estonia’s oldest and largest university, is ranked the 301-350th position in this year’s Times Higher Education World University Rankings; last year, the university achieved its all-time high of 201–250th position. The ranking, compiled by the British journal, Times Higher Education, since 2004, considers 13 performance indicators that are grouped into five
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The Estonian capital, Tallinn, has achieved the tenth place in the Innovation Cities: Small 200 Index, which evaluates the innovativeness of cities with fewer than one million residents. The city has made a significant leap in rankings, climbing 77 places compared with 2018. The improvement is attributed to the city’s digitalisation efforts, according to the
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Three heirs of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire – Lachlan, James and Elisabeth Murdoch – and their mother Anna Torv, the daughter of an Estonian tailor Jakob Tõrv, can track their family history to the Tõrvanõmme farm in Estonia’s Pärnu County. In the wake of the news that Lachlan Murdoch, the eldest son of the media
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German record label ECM has released “Reminiscentiae” (Reminiscences), a new album of the late composer Veljo Tormis’ work, recorded by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Tõnu Kaljuste. Conductor Tõnu Kaljuste, who chose the material for the recording, described the album as “reminiscences of reminiscences”. “There are several
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According to a fresh poll, commissioned by the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, 66 per cent, or two in three Estonian citizens are of the opinion that Kaja Kallas should step down as the prime minister of Estonia, in the wake of the scandal involving her loan to her husband’s company that has
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The Estonian president, Alar Karis, made a public statement on 28 August in connection with the scandal over the country’s prime minister Kaja Kallas’ husband’s business operations related to Russia, saying that when it comes to certain companies, this calls into question the credibility of the Estonian state in its interaction with its allies; the
Recent polls by two survey companies show that a majority of Estonians think the country’s prime minister, Kaja Kallas, should resign because of her husband’s business dealings with Russia; Kallas says she’s not planning to step down. The poll, commissioned by Norstat, the Institute for Social Research, found that 57 per cent of respondents said
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