Estonia is ranked 12th in this year’s Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders, a global organisation that promotes free media. Compared with 2016, Estonia has improved its ranking by two positions. However, Reporters Without Borders says it’s easy in Estonia to bring “defamation lawsuits and journalists have not been spared”. “Legislative amendments adopted in […]
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The United Nations has announced it is partnering with Estonia’s e-residency to empower entrepreneurs in developing countries to make starting a company easier. The programme is called “e-Trade for All” and it was unveiled in Geneva on 25 April 2017 at the e-commerce week of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The
The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, promised during his visit to Estonia that his country’s commitment to NATO is resolute and the US is ready to confront global security challenges, including those coming from Russia. Ryan visited Estonia on 22 April, leading a bipartisan delegation, during which he met with the
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Estonia is to host one of the world’s largest technical cyber defence exercises, Locked Shields 2017, from 24-28 April. According to the Tallinn-based NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, the main organiser of the event, this year the size and scope of technologies, networks and devices used in the exercise has increased considerably. “Reflecting
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Estonian bank LHV, in cooperation with the Tax and Customs Board, has launched a salary payment service that can be used by entrepreneurs for simultaneous payment of salary and declaration and payment of taxes through the bank’s online system without having to enter the e-Tax Board. The new service primarily helps small enterprises declare paid
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Two Estonian cyber security companies joined forces and created a platform for the Latvian ministry of defence with the aim to raise its employees’ awareness about cyber threats. The Estonian companies, BHC Laboratory and ByteLife Solutions, created a joint venture called CybExer Technologies and developed the Cyber Hygiene Platform that is designed to interactively address
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The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, is to visit Estonia on 22 April, leading a bipartisan delegation to key NATO allies amid the tensions with Russia. Ryan and the delegation will visit the UK, Norway, Poland and Estonia to “meet with government officials and military leaders to review and discuss evolving
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An Estonian science and industrial park, located in north-western part of the country, wants to become the location of a major Tesla factory. The Pakri Science and Industrial Park has started a marketing campaign to explain to Tesla, why Estonia – a successful technology pioneer – should become the place where the automobile giant should
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The Estonian audio solutions startup, Estelon, has received the prestigious Red Dot Product Design award 2017 for its model YB loudspeakers. The Red Dot product design award, that has been given out for over 60 years and has developed into an internationally recognised “sign of quality”, as Estelon put it in a statement, was awarded
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The Estonian ultracapacitor manufacturing startup, Skeleton, has opened a new production line in Saxony, Germany, that is, according to the company, capable of producing up to four million ultracapacitor cells a year. Skeleton said in a statement the facility was the largest in Europe and will help it enhance its production capacity. “The expansion is
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