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  A major festival of Estonian culture, Estonie tonique, will take place in Paris in October and November; it is so far the biggest cultural cooperation project between the two countries. The aim of the festival is to give a better idea of Estonia through the medium of culture and...

  ERR News - Continuing population loss due to declining birth rates and emigration are the most significant problem facing the Baltic states, according to the authors of the newly-released Estonian Human Development Report. The report, presented in Tallinn on September 5, noted that the collective populations of Estonia, Latvia...

  "Those are seljakotid!" – backpacks, is what I would have said once upon a time, since while living in Canada I had never heard of the term ranits. A ranits is a type of backpack used by young kids as schoolbags. They usually have sturdier sides and some older...

  ERR News - The paltry 278 euros per month, before taxes, that marks the legal minimum wage in Estonia comes in at 38 percent of the EU average, statistics from Eurostat show. Äripäev reported that  the minimum wage earners in Bulgaria are the worst off in the bloc, making...

ERR News - Although Estonia is popular among Finnish tourists for its cheap alcohol, there is no reason for the northern neighbors to buy ice cream or butter here, since it costs about twice as much as back home. While at a local Alepa grocery store in Finland a liter...

ERR News - KUMU, the Art Museum of Estonia, has asked the Ministry of Culture to bump up the museum's yearly budget by 250,000 euros, due to the growing cost of heating as the facility enters the open electricity market. Companies that consume more than two gigawatt hours per year...

ERR News - The Ministry of the Interior wants to make it easier for the police to identify the internet protocol (IP) addresses of people who make suspicious comments online that are perceived as a possible threat. In the wake of the Norwegian attacks, which currently appear to have been...

ERR News - The Foreign Ministry has provided 80,000 euros to ease the plight of Somalian refugees suffering from famine. According to the UN, 11.5 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance in East Africa due to the worst drought in 60 years and armed conflicts. The UN declared...

ERR News - July 20, the City of Tallinn bolstered its drive to bar the nation's much-touted e-voting system from local elections, holding a press conference where prominent US computer scientist Barbara Simons said that such systems are inherently vulnerable. The University of California, Berkeley PhD and former Association for...

The Baltic Times: A report indicated that in 2008, the ratio of Estonia’s spending on social protection benefits in GDP was the third lowest among the EU countries, reports Postimees Online. The Report on Europe 2020’s Social Dimension stated that Estonia spent 15 percent of its GDP on social protection...