US Senator John McCain, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is to visit Estonia on 27 and 28 December, leading a delegation of senators. The delegation will include, in addition to the Republican Senator McCain of Arizona, the Republican Senator Lindsay Graham of South Carolina and the Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota. […]
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The Finnish and Estonian music industries have joined forces to increase the export capabilities of musical talent and music companies to the Japanese market under a joint endeavour called the “Finest Sounds”. The objective of the cooperation is to bring more high-quality Finnish and Estonian music to the second biggest music market in the world,
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The appointment of Rex Tillerson as the next secretary of state of the United States has left many American allies, including Estonia, a bit worried – not only because Tillerson has no experience in foreign policy, or politics in general – but because of his close ties to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, who, from
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According to a public opinion survey on national defence in which 1,203 residents of Estonia were interviewed, 89% of the population support Estonia’s NATO membership. That’s a significant jump from May 2000, when only 54% of the people were fond of the country being a member of the alliance. According to the survey, NATO membership
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The most applications for the Estonian e-residency programme come from Finland, Russia and the United States. According to an e-residency statistics website, 16.5% of the applicants – or 2,535 people – are from Finland. The Russian Federation is second with 7.92%; 1,216 people from Russia have applied for the e-residency. The United States comes third
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The small Estonian town of Rakvere has, for the third year in a row, installed a rather different Christmas tree; this year’s installation consists of wood and giant cogwheels that move at their own pace and the colour of the tree changes all the time. Teet Suur, the town’s cultural arts manager and the author
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The former Estonian president, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, has received the Digital Freedom Award for his contribution to promoting digital culture in the Baltics, Northern Europe and beyond. The award was established by the Digital Freedom Festival to prize exceptional people who have fostered digital freedom, raised awareness of opportunities and challenges the digital revolution can
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The Estonian president, Kersti Kaljulaid, said in a response to an EurActiv article that the Baltics were not afraid of migrants or Russians as the article claimed. Kaljulaid wrote the open letter response to the EurActiv article, “The Brief: Europe’s elites rush to hide behind Mutti’s skirts”, that analysed the German chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision
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According to a recent survey by Intrum Justitia, a Swedish credit management services company, Estonians are the most optimistic nation in the European Union. The survey found that only four per cent of Estonians think their children will be financially worse off than themselves. “This makes Estonia the most positive country when it comes to
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The Estonian delivery robot startup, Starship Technologies has been approved for pilot testing in Washington, DC, and Redwood City, CA; this comes on top of similar approvals in Coeur D’Alene, ID, and five cities in Europe. Starship is working closely with a number of cities in the United States, including Sunnyvale, San Carlos and Menlo
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