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  On Monday, 4 June, Foreign Ministry Secretary General Alar Streimann randomly selected the winners of the Foreign Ministry’s Estonia-themed web-based quiz. The grand prizes of the Foreign Ministry’s web-based quiz were trips to Estonia, which went to the Netherlands and Russia. The goal of the Foreign Ministry Estonia quiz...

  ERR News - In a recently published survey by the Institute of Economic -Research, 75 percent of respondents said Estonians drink too much alcohol.  Eighty-one percent of res-pondents found it necessary to reduce alcohol consumption in the nation. But only 2 percent of those polled admitted to drinking too...

  ERR News - A riddle in the dark: what has eight legs, is bigger than a coin, and haunts one of Tallinn's most popular medieval attractions? Besides the presumable ghosts of the past, one of Tallinn's most popular medieval attractions turned out to be home to a colony of...

  Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, First of all, let me welcome you all to Estonia.  Not only do I have the honor to host for the first time the NATO Parliamentary Assembly here in my country, it is also the first time anarchists from over Europe have gathered in...

  French railway operator SNCF, the engineering and consultancy firm Systra, and the energy and transport company Alstom have expressed interest in investing into Rail Baltic, a planned railway that would link the Baltic states with Western Europe, the Lithuanian Minister of Trans-port, Eligijus Masiulis, said in a statement on...

  ERR News – Homeowners are reaping some rewards from the EU's efforts to staunch the debt crisis as interest rates have dropped to a ten-year low. The Bank of Estonia said the average interest rate on home loans was 3.1 percent in April, due mainly to a drop in...

  ERR News - Tartu Science Park opened the doors of a new demo center for mobile application software. The idea is to give mobile application developers a place to share and market their ideas, as well as to receive assistance from experts. The demo center will provide technical support,...

  ERR News - The Estonian Central Crime Investigation Department searched the ruling Reform Party's offices on May 24, as an allegedly illegitimate funding scheme continues to unravel. Reform Party Secretary General Martin Kukk said the authorities confiscated several computers. “The Central Crime Investigation Department is conducting a search in...

  ERR News - Estonia's marathon hopeful at the London Olympics, Evelin Talts, compares her pleasure from running with addiction. ETV recently talked to Evelin Talts, who will represent Estonia in the women's marathon at the London Olympics. In about 80 days, Talts will be tackling the standard marathon distance of...

  ERR News - The Synod of Constantinople has canonized 11 clerics and lay persons who perished during the first two years of the Soviet occupation of Estonia. A decree of canonization was read on May 17, in the Church of Transfiguration of Our Lord in Tallinn that added 9...