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.

Video: Alika Milova represents Estonia at Eurovision 2023

Alika Milova represented Estonia with the song “Bridges”, written by her and Dutch songwriter Wouter Hardy, at the 67th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, hosted in Liverpool, the UK, from 9-13 May; she won eighth place in the contest’s final. Milova (20), born into a Russian-speaking family in the Estonian border town Narva, won the […]

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Estonian business community: Good laws are not made in a fast-track procedure

In a letter to the Estonian prime minister, Kaja Kallas, the leaders of the Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Estonian Employers’ Confederation stress that extremely short deadlines for giving feedback to draft laws that are extensive in their impact and effect on society violate the principles of good legislative practice; the letter

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Arvo Pärt. Photo by Kaupo Kikkas.

Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel among the Times critics’ best pieces of classical music

The Times’ panel of music critics chose 100 best pieces of classical music from the repertoire of the past 1,000 years and included is Spiegel im Spiegel, an instrumental piece written by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt in 1978. The Times suggests 100 recordings, arranged in ten categories the paper said it hopes “will convey the

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The Estonian National Museum opens an exhibition about fairy tales in Finland

“Once upon a Time”, an exhibition curated by the Estonian National Museum, opened on 27 April in Tampere, Finland; the exhibition about fairy tales, heroes and heroines will remain open in Finland until 10 March 2024. “Once upon a Time” is an exhibition about fairy tales, heroes and heroines, the Tartu-based museum said in a

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Estonian folk artist Mari Kalkun signs with Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records

Estonian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mari Kalkun has announced details of her seventh album, and first since signing to Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records; the album, called “The Stories of Stonia”, will be released on 7 July 2023 and is preceded by the single “Tõistmuudu” (“Otherwise”). Co-produced by English folk musician Sam Lee, most of the

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Estonia’s “Melchior” films to screen in Germany, Spain and the Czech Republic

“Melchior the Apothecary” trilogy will reach customers of streaming services in the Czech Republic and Germany and the first film of the trilogy will be shown at the FANT film festival in Bilbao, Spain, in May. The rights to trilogy, the detective adventure set in medieval Tallinn, were recently bought by the Czech streaming platform

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Tallinn to finally introduce night buses – albeit, briefly

After years of outcry about non-existent night-time public transport in the Estonian capital, the city government of Tallinn is finally launching a four-month night bus “pilot project”, running from 19 May to 17 September 2023. “We are launching the night bus pilot project and opening four bus lines, which will all start their journey with

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