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Ministers meet on regional issues
Ministers meet on regional issues
WISE MEN, AND WOMAN: Nordic and Baltic State foreign ministers gathered in Riga to discuss how the r...
TALLINN - Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs Urmas Paet participated in the NB8 Foreign Ministers Meeting which was held in Riga on August 26-27. The meeting included foreign ministers from Lithuania, Latvia, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway and Iceland (the so-called NB8). The main discussion topic was the future of Nordic-Baltic cooperation, on the basis of a report and recommendations by a group of wise men. The group was established by Valdis Birkavs, the Latvian prime minister and foreign minister in the 1990s, and Soren Gade, Minister of Defense of Denmark in the 2000s. The ...  Full story...
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 Sep 01, 2010 - Ordered hit on business partner foiled...
Ordered hit on business partner foiled
TALLINN - The Harju County Court took businessman Andrus Sukles into custody for six months under suspicion of ordering the murder of his former business partner, Tullio Liblik. According to Estonia’s Police Northern Prefecture Criminal Bureau chief Priit Parkna, Sukles was arrested on Aug. 27 after evidence was collected. “This prevented a cruel murder,” said Parkna. ...
 Aug 25, 2010 - Reinsalu initiates ‘Little Davos’...
Reinsalu initiates ‘Little Davos’
TALLINN - Around 40 CEOs, honorary consuls and public intellectuals from abroad gathered in Tallinn on Aug. 19 to discuss the heady questions of what Estonia should do next as a nation, and how it can improve its chances for success in the global marketplace. The symposium, entitled ‘Quo vadis, Estonia’ (Where are you going, Estonia?), was hosted by the president of Estonia, To...
 Aug 25, 2010 - Estonia celebrates independence with first ‘digita...
Estonia celebrates independence with first ‘digital’ song festival
TALLINN - On August 20, Estonia celebrated its 19th anniversary of restoration of independence, as flags were raised throughout the country. Estonia, which is also called ‘E-Stonia’ and is known to the world for its technical prowess, this year kicked the tradition up a few octaves with a digital music festival that linked singers all over the world. This time the largest event co...
 Aug 18, 2010 - Official numbers mask job growth...
Official numbers mask job growth
TALLINN - Unemployment still remains one of the biggest problems in Estonia today. An estimated 128,000 people were jobless in the second quarter of 2010. In the first quarter this year the number was a record-high, when 137,000 people were without work and the jobless rate was 19.8 percent. The small decrease in the second quarter indicates that the recovery of Estonia’s export industrie...
 Aug 11, 2010 - UT joins ACSI project...
UT joins ACSI project
TALLINN - The UT Institute of Computer Science (Institute of Computer Sciences of the University of Tartu) is taking part in a multinational business-oriented project called the Artifact-Centric Service Interoperation (ACSI), which aims to reduce the cost of creating industry-specific e-services by 40 percent over conventional techniques. “Nowadays, information systems in large organizati...
 Aug 11, 2010 - Teamwork lands team in U.S. court...
Teamwork lands team in U.S. court
TALLINN - Accusations of stealing more than 9.4 million U.S. dollars from more than 2,100 ATM terminals in 280 different cities has gotten 26-year-old Sergei Tsurikov, from Tallinn, and his seven accomplices extradited to the U.S. for trial. Tsurikov has been charged with wire fraud, computer fraud, as well as aggravated identity theft and is said to be involved in a criminal ring all around th...
 Aug 04, 2010 - Helmand mission accomplished for Raisma...
Helmand mission accomplished for Raisma
TALLINN - On July 28, NATO awarded the treaty organization’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) medal to Estonian health care expert Anu Raisma for her work in developing the health care sector in Helmand province in Afghanistan. The award was bestowed on Raisma, who is winding up her civilian mission to the war torn country, by Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Cox of the U.K....
 Jul 28, 2010 - Missile madness...
Missile madness
TALLINN - On July 20, Estonia slammed its neighbor, Soviet-era master Moscow, for deploying missiles near its border, saying the move ran counter to ongoing fence-mending efforts between the two countries. The decision on the missile deployment was announced by the commander of Russia’s ground forces, Alexander Postnikov, who said that Russian military forces are discussing the possibilit...
 Sep 01, 2010 - Eesti in brief - 2010-09-01...
The Estonian Association of Cities organized a conference on the partnership relations between the state and local governments on Aug. 25, reports ...
 Sep 01, 2010 - Historic battleground burial s...
TALLINN - A burial ship has been discovered in Salme village, Estonia, which specialists consider could be from a pre-Viking era battleground buria...
 Aug 25, 2010 - Lessons not yet learned...
TALLINN - On the 71st anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Pro Patria and Res Publica Union issued a press release warning that conclusions ...
 Aug 25, 2010 - Eesti in brief - 2010-08-26...
Prime Minister Andrus Ansip stated on Aug. 19 that he was certain that Eesti Energia would not get the government’s approval to establish nea...
 Aug 18, 2010 - PRU turns attention to budget ...
TALLINN - Chairman of PRU, Mart Laar, stated at the party’s congress during the weekend that two major priorities for Estonia in the near fut...
 Aug 18, 2010 - Studies begin on Nord Stream’s...
TALLINN - Researchers are carrying out additional studies on an open sea research vessel in order to get an objective overview of the impact that t...
 Aug 18, 2010 - Eesti in brief - 2010-08-19...
From Sept. 8, Estonian citizens who wish to travel to the United States will have to start paying a state fee of 14 dollars (approximately 165 kroo...
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