The Czech Republic wants to take part in the defence of Estonia and send its troops to the country to reinforce the eastern flank of NATO next year. The Czech defence minister, Martin Stropnicky, said at a Visegrad Group meeting that his country would like to take part in an “allied battlegroup within the reinforced […]
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The Estonian transport information technology provider, Ridango, has been awarded the first prize at the Transport Ticketing Global Awards in the Best Smart Ticketing Programme category for its ticketing solution implemented in Sweden. The ticketing solution the company was awarded for has been implemented in Sörmland County in Sweden. The company said in a statement
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The United States will send M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania this week to reassure its allies that the US is still committed to their defence. The tanks will be deployed after the joint US-Polish exercises in northern Poland conclude, the Wall Street Journal reported. The tanks will remain in Estonia,
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The prime minister of the United Kingdom, Theresa May, confirmed after her meeting with the new US president, Donald Trump, that the latter is “100 per cent behind” NATO. May visited the new president in Washington, DC, on 27 January and at the press conference after the meeting, she said that Trump gave a strong
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The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index 2016 has ranked Estonia as a borderline “flawed democracy” with the score of 7.85 out of 10; a “full democracy” ranking begins from the score of 8.0. In the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index, 167 countries scored on a scale of 0 to 10 based on 60 indicators across
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The former president of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, has been awarded this year’s Reinhard Mohn Prize, “Smart Country: Connected. Intelligent. Digital.”, for his work on the promotion of digitalisation in government, education and public services. According to the Bertelsmann Stiftung (“foundation” in German), during his ten-year tenure as the president of Estonia, “Ilves made digital
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According to the 2016 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, Estonia is doing fairly well, having been ranked 22nd with the score of 70 out of 100. With 176 countries in the index, none achieved a perfect score of 100 (very clean). In fact, over two thirds of the countries and territories ranked in the 2016
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Nasdaq Stock Market, the second-largest exchange in the world, has successfully completed a blockchain technology test to run e-voting on its Estonian exchange. The technology allows the shareholders of companies listed on Nasdaq’s Tallinn Stock Exchange to vote in shareholder meetings using e-voting through Estonia’s e-residency platform. Now the stock market is assessing whether to
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The Estonian-founded tech startup, Pipedrive, has closed a USD17 million round of funding, led by Atomico, a global venture capital firm established by one of the founders of Skype, Niklas Zennström. Pipedrive said in a blog post that its tie-up with Atomico was a new relationship and that the company was “looking forward to tapping
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The US northwestern city of Portland, Oregon, is to hold a music festival dedicated to the works of the most famous Estonian composer and the most performed living composer in the world, Arvo Pärt. The festival will take place 5-12 February and is presented by the Cappella Romana chamber choir. According to the organisers, the
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