The United Kingdom is to deploy its troops to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland; according to the country’s defence secretary, Michael Fallon, the troops will be involved in training, evaluation and capacity-building mission. The deployment is partly related to the Russian air strikes in Syria and to counter the tensions between the West and Moscow. […]
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Estonia has selected Elmo Nüganen’s war movie, “1944”, as the country’s submission for the foreign language Academy Award. Nüganen’s film depicts the events of the war in 1944 as Estonia faced advances from both the Red Army and the German Army. The story is shown through the eyes of Estonian soldiers who – faced with
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The Estonian-British startup, TransferWise, has been chosen as a technology pioneer by the World Economic Forum. The company was chosen by a jury of 68 academics, entrepreneurs and investors from hundreds of candidates. Candidates are judged based on innovation, potential innovation, viability and leadership. “TransferWise is part of a group of entrepreneurs who are more
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ZeroTurnaround, the Estonian-founded producer of developer tools for creating quality software, has announced it has raised US$5 million in series B financing, led by Bain Capital Ventures with participation from Western Technology Investment, both existing investors. This brings the total amount of funding since the company’s founding in 2007 to US$15 million. ZeroTurnaround was born in 2007, when
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The Estonian startup, Pipedrive, won the Best B2B Startup of the Year award and the founders of TransferWise, Taavet Hinrikus and Kristo Käärmann, were honoured as the best startup founders at this year’s the Europas Conference and Awards for European Tech Startups. We’re very happy to have won Best B2B Startup of The Year at
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Recently, Estonia started to work harder on strengthening its talent pool by trying to make it more appealing for foreigners to come and work in Estonia. But what’s peculiar about this is the fact that whenever you mention the issue of accepting immigrants – no matter why they would consider coming to Estonia – the average
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According to the recent global cybersecurity index of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Estonia is ranked fifth in the world. The ranking is shared with Brazil, India, Japan, South Korea, Germany and the UK. The US is ranked first and Canada second. The top three also includes Australia, Malaysia and Oman – all sharing the
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According to the global graduate business school, INSEAD, Estonia is among the most talent-ready countries in the world. The second edition of the Global Talent Competitiveness Index, created by INSEAD, in partnership with Singapore’s Human Capital Leadership Institute and Adecco, placed Estonia 19th in the index, just ahead of Japan and right after Belgium. The
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A video recording of the opera, Wallenberg, composed by Estonian Erkki-Sven Tüür, is to be screened in Tel Aviv, Israel, on 15 January. The video is a recording of the performance by the Estonian National Opera where Wallenberg was staged in 2007. The opera premiered in 2001 at the Opernhaus Dortmund. Tüür told Estonian World
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Estonia has come in 17th among the 189 countries listed in the World Bank’s recently published Doing Business 2015 index, scoring higher than its southern neighbours. Singapore continues to be the economy with the most business-friendly regulations, according to the index. New Zealand scored second and China’s special administrative region of Hong Kong third. Of
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