News from Estonia

Just over 20 properties which include residential buildings remain in the "area of interest" of a planned expansion to an existing military training area in South Estonia. Local residents have largely been in the dark about what will happen to their properties, many of which have been in the family...

A few weeks ago, the University of Tartu appealed to the Estonian diaspora in support of Ukrainian refugee students attending the University. The University decided to accept up to 300 refugee students from Ukraine for studies at the University. The Estonian Government has supported the cost of their tuition. With...

American poet and translator Adam Cullen recently opened a tiny new bookstore-cafe in the coastal Estonian resort town of Haapsalu. What makes it especially unique is that the bookstore's selection focuses on Estonian fiction translated into foreign languages. Located in a wooden house on the corner of Posti and Vaba,...

Fermi Energia, which is developing a nuclear power station in Estonia, will begin a preliminary geological study at one of the possible sites for a compact reactor in the village of Letipea, in the municipality of Viru-Nigula. In November, Steiger Engineering will drill three 90 mm diameter holes at depths...

Shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the University of Tartu (UT) established a scholarship fund to support refugee Ukrainian students’ studies at UT. These donations and scholarships are administered by the University of Tartu Foundation. Despite numerous and varied initiatives, the funds accumulated in the scholarship fund are falling...

Estonians across the world are not a community separate from Estonian society; instead, they have a strong emotional and cultural bond with Estonia, a study commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and carried out by the Institute of Baltic Studies shows. The majority of the expat Estonian community have...

HSBC, the largest bank in Europe, has made a US$35 million investment in the London-based banking app, Monese, founded by the Estonian entrepreneur, Norris Koppel, writes Estonian World. The investment was made by HSBC Ventures that provides capital to support growth initiatives for global clients specialising in innovation and technology....

An exhibition by the Estonian Institute of Human Rights on Tallinn's Freedom Square remembers the journeys of Estonians who fled the advancing Soviet Army in 1944. A balloon-filled boat, the Boat of Tears, has been installed to commemorate the approximately 80,000 Estonians and thousands more people from the region who...

Rising interest rates and general uncertainty are likely to lead to a decline in real estate prices in the near future, experts are predicting. Prices stopped rising several months ago. More and more experts are forecasting a drop in prices, ERR news program reported on September 14. Real estate entrepreneur...

While the food industry requires fast solutions on energy input prices, if soaring inflation is to be brought under control, at least according to the head of a sector lobby group, the government is only to make specific decisions on potential support to business later this month. Support measures for...