Estonia

Russia, Estonia strengthen drug fighting cooperation

Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009

Russia and Estonia agreed on Wednesday to strengthen joint efforts to fight drug trafficking.

Estonia confirms first swine flu fatality

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009

Tallinn - Fears grew about the spread of the A/H1N1 flu virus, known commonly as swine flu, in the Baltic states Tuesday after Estonian health officials confirmed their first fatality as a result of the illness. A statement released by the Estonian m...

Siim Kallas: Estonia will join eurozone three years before Latvia and Lithuania

BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009

Estonia will most probably join the eurozone already in 2011, at least three years ahead of Latvia and Lithuania, however, this will have a positive effect on the entire Baltic region economy, believes the European Commission's Vice President and European Commissioner for Administrative Affairs, Audit and Anti-Fraud Siim Kallas. In an interview with LETA Video, Kallas said that Estonia would most likely...

Reform Party is leading Estonia to bankruptcy

BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009

The biggest problem facing the Reform Party today is that its leader, prime minister Andrus Ansip, lacks a tax ideology. Äripäev writes in its editorial that the tax ideology of the Reform Party and its prime minister Andrus Ansip is bankrupt. If a prime minister is without a strong foundation, it will be soon that the whole government building may start crumbling. Reform Party's tax policy...

EU : Estonia has made progress toward joining Euro zone

BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009

BRUSSELS - Estonia has made progress toward joining the euro zone, but a fuller assessment of its membership prospects won't be made until next May, a European Commission spokeswoman said Monday. Earlier Monday, an Austrian magazine published an interview with European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Joaquin Almunia, who said: "If all goes well, we can give the green light for the...

Estonia euro adoption 'possible' in 2011, says EU's Almunia

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

Tallinn - Estonia's hopes of becoming the next European Union member state to adopt the euro as its national currency received a slight boost Monday with comments from EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Joaquin Almunia suggesting the Balti...

Estonia alarmed over Russia's intention to buy French warship

Global Security (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

Commander-in-Chief of the Estonian Defence Forces Ants Laaneots said if Russia buys a French Mistral amphibious assault ship, measures should be taken to ensure Estonian national security.

Estonia alarmed over Russia's intention to buy French warship

Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009

Commander-in-Chief of the Estonian Defence Forces Ants Laaneots said if Russia buys a French Mistral amphibious assault ship, measures should be taken to ensure Estonian national security.

Estonia will be next to join Euro, World Bank says

BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

Estonia is set to become the next euro member as years of fiscal prudence help the former communist state recover faster than neighboring Latvia and Lithuania, a World Bank economist said. “It’s doing everything it can to keep the deficit within 3 percent of GDP this year,” Thomas Laursen, the World Bank’s country manager for Poland and the Baltics, said in an interview in Warsaw....

reason # 22.3 why I love the Czech Republic

Knowledge is Power (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009

1989 brought a domino effect of revolutions. Timothy Garton Ash remarked: �In Poland the transition [from communism to democracy] lasted ten years, in Hungary ten months, in Czechoslovakia ten days.� Those ten eventful days fell between November 17th and 27th, 1989. After the failure of the Prague Spring, many Czechoslovaks rightfully held doubts about the possibility of revolution, but...

Estonian unemployment hits record high

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009

Tallinn - The number of unemployed in Estonia in the third quarter of 2009 reached its highest level since the country regained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, according to official data released Friday. Statistics Estonia said the unempl...

Estonia's President Ilves joins list for top EU job

BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009

Tallinn - Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the incumbent president of the small Baltic state of Estonia, became the latest name Thursday to enter the race for the job of European Council President. The Baltic News Service reported that Prime Minister Andrus Ansip told a news conference in Tallinn: 'I put forward... the name of Toomas Hendrik Ilves as a candidate fit for the position of both president and high...

• Estonia's President Ilves joins list for top EU job - The Earth Times Online Newspaper

Friday Bench (24): Tallinn

Ackworth born, gone West (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009

For my bench this week I've dipped into my archives to find this long bench under the walls of Tallinn , Estonia. This bench can be found under Loewenschede Torn . A path leads under the walls to Laborootiumi . My favourite benches discovered last week include Rune's old bench , Barbara's at Lake Agnes , Leatherdyke's at Hartland Abbey , Zyzzyz's in Inverness and Stine's at Lake Ontario . Unless otherwise...

Estonia signs cooperation agreement with European Space Agency

BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

Juhan Tere Estonia signed a cooperation agreement with the European Space Agency this week, BBN/LETA reported. Based on the agreement, cooperation projects of Estonian companies and science and education institutions for usage of space technologies and their earth applications will be prepared. Enterprise Estonia's innovation division adviser Madis Võõras said that the aim of the agreement...

Government benefits from electronic solutions

Baltic Times (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

TALLINN - Estonia has been recognized as one of the finalists of the 4th European e-Government Awards 2009. Two projects developed in Estonia are among the finalists. The award competition is an initiative from the European Commission to stimulate innovation by identifying best practice examples u...

Carmen Kass

satraffic | 01/26/2009

Kass grew up in the Estonian city of Paide. When she was a little girl, she lived in a cramped apartment in Sika village with her mother, who worked on a farm. At the age of fourteen, she was ‘discovered’ in a Tallinn supermarket by an Italian mode...