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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Poor healthcare has been seen as a weak link in Estonia’s 15-year post-Soviet economic ‘miracle’, although the government has made significant inroads in improving public provision. Similarly, the use of pharmaceuticals has continued to rise, with the market topping US$233mn in 2007, up by 12.5% on the previous year. In the forecast period, increased healthcare spending and strong economic growth...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
In the revised Business Environment Rankings for the 16 major markets of Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) for Q208, Estonia is once again found in a respectable fifth place. However, in absolute terms, Estonia will remain a marginal market in the CEE region, being significantly smaller than the other two Baltic markets. The main limiting factor is the small and falling population, which...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
The effects of factors such as market opening, liberalization, emissions, pricing, and supply issues mean that dynamics in the European energy sector are constantly and rapidly changing. As such, an up to date, broadly based and authoritative source of information on these markets is now more important than ever before for players throughout the gas and power value chains.
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Itching for Eestimaa writes about the trial of Arnold Meri: “On Voice of America he's an ‘ex-officer.' On Russia Today he's a ‘war hero.' And on the BBC, he's a ‘Soviet war figure'.”
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Baltic Times (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
TALLINN - Responding to news that the country's economy nearly flattened out in the first quarter, Prime Minister Andrus Ansip has said that Estonia needed a period of slower growth after years of rapid economic expansion. “We’ve been waiting for and also in need of a slowdown of economic growth f
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Fergie's Tech Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Robert Vamosi writes on the C|Net "D3F3NS3 1N D3PTH" Blog : One year ago, the Estonian government moved a war memorial honoring Russian-Estonians who died fighting the Nazis, a move that may have triggered what some believe is the first instance of a sustained, international cyberwar. Now, Gadi Evron, a security evangelist for Beyond Security who was in Estonia at the time of the...
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Cnet (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
One security researcher offers his take on the DDoS attacks that crippled Estonia in May of 2007.
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DYLAN JONES-EVANS (Free subscription) | yesterday
Off to Estonia first thing tomorrow to spread the message about Welsh enterprise research at the Nordic Conference on Entrepreneurship so blogging will be intermittent.
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Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
An elderly Soviet war hero, Arnold Meri, has gone on trial in his native Estonia on a charge of genocide over deportations to Siberia in 1949. Mr Meri, 88, denies helping to organise the deportatio...
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Baltic Times (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
TALLINN - A recent survey by the University of Life Sciences has indicated that as many as 25 percent of the nation's farmers may be on the verge of quitting the profession, a move that could seriously dampen the vitality of rural regions. Government officials have said they accept the situation a
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SunbeltBLOG (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
Ok, I’m a fan of Estonia. The president of that small country was recently here in Tampa, and while I didn't get to see him talk, I was impressed with what I heard of the country. Of course, there’s the extraordinary flat tax system (which actually goes down every year). I can only envy it from afar… And, the country runs like a well-oil machine compared to other democracies. The country is...
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BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
SUUR MUNAMAGI - Flares billowing red smoke were lit for Tibet yesterday noon atop Estonia’s Suur Munamagi, the highest peak in the three ex-Soviet Baltic Sea states including Latvia and Lithuania. “Supporting freedom for Tibet we are also supporting our own freedom,” Estonian deputy Valdur Lahtvee told hundreds of Tibet supporters at the site. A minute’s silence in memory of the victims...
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BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
In cooperation with BNS TALLINN - The Baltic countries may acquire fighters after 2018 in order to police their air space, but it is also possible they will continue to rely on allies after that date, the daily Postimees reported. The Baltic countries must submit proposals to NATO by 2011 regarding how the issue of their air space security is to be solved after 2018, Defense Minister Jaak Aaviksoo...
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BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
TALLINN - Estonia is seeing its first major economic slowdown since it joined the European Union in 2004 and it will have to handle the accompanying problems with care, the International Monetary Fund said in a report Monday. In April, Estonian consumer price inflation hit a 10-year high of 11.4 percent as growth slowed to 0.4 percent in the first quarter of 2008. "The Estonian...
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BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
TALLINN - A defense lawyer for Hero of the Soviet Union Arnold Meri, whose trial began on Hijumaa Island, Estonia, on Tuesday, has demanded one more medical examination for his client. My client was last examined by forensic medical experts four and a half years ago and his condition needs to be updated, defense lawyer Sven Sillari told the court. Meri, 88, was diagnosed with lung cancer and...
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hrishikesh | 02/27/2008
Bharatbook.com is proud to promote the new report “Insurance Report Estonia” ( http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=16292 ) from its vast collection of informative market research reports. Independent 5-year insurance industry forecast for Lithuania. Original insurance market research and insurance sector trend analysis for Lithuania’s insurance industry. Competitive intelligence , regional insurance
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hrishikesh | 02/26/2008
Bharatbook.com announces a new market research report “Freight Transport Report Estonia” ( http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=18577 ) Independent 5-year Freight Transport industry forecasts for Estonia. Original Freight Transport market research and Freight Transport sector trend analysis for the Estonia Freight Transport industry. Competitive intelligence, Estonian Freight Transport company...
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rupali | 01/02/2008
This report covers the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, a small yet progressive telecom market. Each country has its own chapter and covers the following subjects Key Statistics and forecasts Market and Industry Overviews Regulatory Environment Major Players (fixed and mobile) Infrastructure Mobile Voice, Data (GSM, CDMA, GPRS, EDGE, 3G/UMTS/WCDMA) and Content Markets Emerging Internet...
