Silver Tambur

Silver Tambur is the cofounder and publisher of Estonian World. He has previously studied journalism at the University of Tartu, and politics and society at the Birkbeck College, University of London. Silver has been the editor at the Estonian Public Broadcasting’s news service in English, as well as contributing for the Business Sense magazine in the UK, Deutsche Welle and Radio New Zealand. You can also follow him on Twitter and like his page on Facebook. You can write to Silver at silver@estonianworld.com.

Enterprise Estonia launches the country’s new gateway page

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Enterprise Estonia, the state-run agency responsible for promoting Estonia abroad and attracting investment, launched two brand new web platforms – estonia.ee and brand.estonia.ee, at the cost of €200,000. The new website estonia.ee replaces the estonia.eu site that had become obsolete and outdated, both in design and content. The long-serving “Welcome to Estonia” logo will be […]

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Isabelle Frochot: Estonia is very advanced in teaching methods

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Dr Isabelle Frochot, a visiting associate professor of tourism marketing at the University of Tartu Pärnu College, says that she would recommend Estonia as a place to study without hesitation. In Estonia, when one talks about a “university town”, one usually means Tartu, the home of the largest and oldest university in the country. And

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Arvo Pärt after a long applause at the Carnegie Hall concert in New York, 31 May 2014. Photo by Eleri Ever.

UPDATED: Arvo Pärt is the world’s most performed living composer sixth year running

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The Estonian composer, Arvo Pärt, has, for the sixth year in a row, been given the title of the “world’s most performed living composer” by the classical music event database, Bachtrack, Estonian World can disclose. Bachtrack calculates a series of statistics each year that show the number of times the work of each composer has been

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Estonia’s centenary celebration engages Estonians and their friends across the world

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The Republic of Estonia will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2018; in anticipation to the centenary, the preparations have already started and are likely to add confidence to the country and its people across the globe. An imaginary countdown timer to celebrate the country’s centenary in 2018 was switched on last year, when the Estonian

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Silver Tambur: Brace yourself for 2017 – it’s going to be a rollercoaster year

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While the Anglo-American and EU-dominated liberal world order faces collapse, Estonians have so far shown resilience against populist groundswells. For most people, a new year usually starts with a renewed sense of hope. We hope our lives will be better off; we hope the world will be a better place. This year is no different.

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Estonia’s first satellite brings a contract for space cameras

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ESTCube-1, Estonia’s first satellite, took images of such excellent quality that the Tartu-based researchers are getting their first orders from the space industry. Estonia conducted its first space mission in April 2013, when a tiny one-kilogramme satellite, called ESTCube-1, was rocketed off to orbit the Earth from the European Space Agency’s launch site in French

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Estonian startup Guaana partners with Dubai to pioneer a new global research funding model

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The Estonian scientific collaboration platform, Guaana, has joined forces with the government of Dubai to pioneer a new global research funding model. At an official signing ceremony, attended by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the prime minister of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Dubai, and various other ruling officials of the oil-rich Arabian Peninsula nation,

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Neeme Järvi and Tõnu Kaljuste are nominated for the Grammy Awards 2017

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Estonian conductors Neeme Järvi and Tõnu Kaljuste are among the nominees of the Grammy Awards 2017, in two separate categories. Järvi is nominated in the Best Orchestral Performance category, for “Ibert: Orchestral Works”, recorded with the Orchestre De La Suisse Romande, under Chandos label. Kaljuste is nominated in the Best Classical Compendium category for his

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Estonian startup honours Albert Einstein with a large spray-printed mural

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A Tartu-based startup, SprayPrinter, that produces wireless devices that deliver photos on the wall via a mobile app, paid tribute to Albert Einstein by spraying his iconic headshot onto the wall of a four-storey office building. The painting was created with the “very first prototype of the company’s handheld second product, SprayPrinter Mural”, Aet Rebane,

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The Estonian president invites everyone to become an e-resident

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Kersti Kaljulaid, the Estonian president, called business people around the world to take an advantage of her country’s e-residency programme that entitles everyone, everywhere to securely identify them online, open and run a location-independent business and take advantage of a marketplace of services specifically for e-residents. “Even though there are only a little over a

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