Sten Hankewitz

Sten Hankewitz is a lifelong journalist and the Executive Editor at Estonian World. Having lived in Estonia, Spain, the UK and all around the US, he now resides in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He loves to write and besides working at Estonian World, he writes books and contributes to other outlets. He has strong convictions and shows them unashamedly. You can follow Sten on Threads, X and Facebook. You can also email him.

The trilobite and its compound eye. (A) Holotype. (B) Head region of A. (C) Fields of view. (D) Abraded part of the right eye. Arrowheads indicate the ommatidial columns. (E) Lateral view of the right eye. (F) Schematic drawing of E. (G) Two visual units (big arrows in D). (H) Schematic drawing of G. (Scale bars: A–C, 1 cm; D, 1 mm; E and F, 2 mm; and G, 200 μm.) Photo: National Academy of Sciences

Scientists discover the world’s oldest eye in a fossil found in Estonia

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Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest eye in a 530-million-year-old fossil that was found in Estonia. The fossil in question belongs to a creature known as a trilobite (schmidtiellus reetae) that lived in the Palaezoic era 541 to 251 million years ago, according to a science blog, IFLScience.com. The discovery was made by an international […]

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Eerik-Niiles Kross. Photo: Facebook

Estonian politician Kross among Politico’s most influential Europeans

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The international political magazine, Politico, has named the Estonian MP, Eerik-Niiles Kross, as one of the 28 “people who are shaping, shaking and stirring Europe”. The “Estonian James Bond”, as the magazine puts it, is standing ready to fight if Russia should invade the country. “He’s been warning of the Russians’ potential return since they

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A Dutch firm invests €45 million in an Estonian biocoal plant

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Momentum Capital, a Dutch investment firm, has made a conditional investment of €45 million in the development of an industrial scale torrefaction biocoal plant in Vägari, Estonia. The Dutch company made the investment through its subsidiary, Baltania. According to Momentum, if all conditions of the investment are met, the construction of the biocoal plant will

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Mauritius and Estonia to sign a digital cooperation agreement

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Mauritius and Estonia are to sign a memorandum of understanding on digital cooperation in the margins of the fifth Africa-European Union Summit 2017, scheduled to take place on 28-29 November 2017 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The minister of foreign affairs, regional integration and international trade of Mauritius, Seetanah Lutchmeenaraidoo said in a statement that the

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Finns to be able to buy prescription medicine in Estonia

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One of the first steps towards the free movement of data in the European Union is coming true in the summer of 2018 when Finnish residents will be able to buy prescription drugs from Estonian pharmacies using e-prescriptions issued by Finnish doctors. The Finnish newspaper, Uutisuomalainen, reported that Finnish pharmacies will also be able to

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Estonia ranks high in social justice index – but not everything is peachy

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Estonia ranks 12th in this year’s Bertelsmann Foundation’s Social Justice in the EU index; however, the country ranks lowest in health-related issues, like the people’s healthy lifespan and inequality across income groups. “Across the six social justice dimensions that comprise our index, Estonia places among the top ten in three dimensions (intergenerational justice, labor market

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