Stark Logistics, a transport company partly owned by the Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas’s husband Arvo Hallik, has continued to do business with Russia during the war in Ukraine – despite the prime minister’s criticism of companies doing business with Russia. The Estonian Public Broadcasting reported on 23 August that Stark Logistics, partly owned by […]
The Estonian Film Institute nominates Anna Hints’ documentary, “The Smoke Sauna Sisterhood” (“Savvusanna sõsarad” in Estonian), a documentary about women who come together in the protective darkness of the smoke sauna – an important part of the Estonian cultural heritage – to the American Film Academy Awards for consideration in the Best International Feature Film
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The Canadian government is supporting the planned Keskus International Estonian Centre, due to be built in Toronto, with 750,000 Canadian dollars, through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario; the Estonian government has so far not allocated a cent to the new centre, despite the political rhetoric on the importance of supporting the Estonian
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The BBC Music Magazine includes the Pärnu Music Festival and the Haapsalu Early Music Festival among the 29 best classical music festivals in Europe this year. The BBC Music Magazine said the two festivals from Estonia were among “the very best classical music festivals that you may want to grab tickets for”. “Seaside Pärnu isn’t
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Initiated by the renowned conductor Paavo Järvi, the Estonian “summer capital” hosts the Pärnu Music Festival from 12 to 21 July; Neeme Järvi, Paavo Järvi and Kristjan Järvi will conduct the high-profile concert programme, which was named one of Europe’s best classical music festivals by the BBC Music Magazine this year. Pärnu, the fourth largest
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Christie’s, a British auction house, has picked “Through the Black Gorge of Your Eyes”, an exhibition at Tallinn’s Kumu art museum that highlights the pioneering work of a small group of women who made significant contributions to Estonia’s printmaking scene during the country’s late-Soviet period, as one of the twelve art shows in Europe to
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Food delivery is the first service people consider paying for with digital currencies in Estonia. According to the survey conducted in Estonia by TGM Research for CoinsPaid, a Tallinn-based crypto payment company, over 64 per cent of the respondents are interested in digital currencies and the interest reaches 74 per cent among the 18-24 age
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The Open Farm Day will be held all over Estonia for the ninth time from 15 to 16 July 2023 from 10 am to 5 pm. During the day, participating farms and agricultural producers will open their doors to visitors. “You will get to see farms of all sizes, interesting animals and plants and some
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Over 33,000 young singers and dancers gather to the Estonian capital, Tallinn, to take part in the Youth Song and Dance Celebration this weekend, lauding the connection between the younger generation, their homeland, their culture and the older generation – their roots. The 13th Youth Song and Dance Celebration will bring together nearly 34,000 performers,
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The consortium led by Baltic Workboats, an Estonian shipbuilding company, won a funding of €95 million in the European Defence Fund competition to create a new type of naval platform for European fleets; the initiative aims to develop a modular and semi-autonomous surface vessel platform with a remote-control system that could be used across Europe.
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