International students have not only found Estonia as a stop on their path – the country is increasingly seen as the place to advance one’s career and where to settle in. “I loved and I am still attracted by this tiny and surprising country, defined as the new ‘digital nation’, but also rich and proud […]
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The Freedom on the Net 2016 index, compiled by Freedom House, has ranked Estonia first in the world. The Freedom House report, one of the most authoritative reports in the field, investigated 65 geographically dispersed and politically diverse countries, and ranked them according to obstacles to access, limits on content and violations of user rights. These results
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The e-Governance Academy of Estonia and the presidency of Cyprus have signed a cooperation agreement to develop an electronic identity concept and implement a digital signature solution in Cyprus. Experts from the e-Governance Academy will advise the Cypriot government about the electronic identity and describe the technical solution. “We have a full scope of experience
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EstDocs, the film festival featuring top documentary filmmaking talent from Estonia and around the world, offers screenings in the expat-heavy city of Toronto. For already the twelfth year in a row, Toronto is hosting EstDocs – an audience festival and juried competition featuring films that have a connection to Estonia. The roster of documentary makers featured in the
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In “Expats corner”, we catch up with foreign-born residents who have made Estonia their home, to find out what they really think of the country. Carlos Ivan Vargas is the president of the Mexican Talent Network in Estonia. Carlos Ivan Vargas is an energetic and a tech-savvy doctorate student from Mexico City. Apart from studying, he works
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Mexican graffiti artists are to decorate 30 buildings in Tallinn during the 2017 street art festival, Mextonia; these murals will be Mexico’s present to Estonia for the latter’s centenary, celebrated in 2018. The Mexican graffiti artists will paint some 4,000 square metres of public space during the festival that is to take place in June
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According to the airport guide, Sleeping in Airports, Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport is the third best airport in Europe and the ninth best in the world, based on the overall experience determined by travellers who had taken the site’s 2016 airport survey. In the annual survey, the guide asked travellers to rate airports worldwide based
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The former state official of Estonia, Kersti Kaljulaid, was on Monday elected president of the country in the parliament, Riigikogu. The sole candidate, 81 MPs out of 101 cast their votes in her support. Kaljulaid will serve as the first female president of Estonia. Kaljulaid, a former member of the European Court of Auditors, was a non-partisan
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Estonia has selected Kadri Kõusaar’s film “Mother” as the country’s submission for the foreign language Academy Award. Inspired by the radio series Coma – made by Irish filmmaker Kevin McCann – Kõusaar’s darkly comic thriller “Mother” centres on a woman whose adult son is in a coma after a shooting. The woman must face the locals of
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The Estonian wooden houses industry is the most successful exporter in Europe; and the seventh largest overall. According to Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, the export of Estonia’s wooden houses increased by 20,2% in 2015, growing from EUR238 million in 2014 to EUR286 million in 2015. This made Estonia the most successful
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