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Where do we go from here? New year’s Reflections Pertaining to Baltic Economic Doldrums
I submit a set of reflections that came about because of two events. One was an economic roundtable arranged by the Office of the European Parliament in Riga that I had the privilege of speaking at in November. I had been asked to elaborate on the idea that the reemergence...
Government Approved The Increase In Retirement Age To 65 As Of 2026
The government decided to send to the Riigikogu a draft Act that stipulates the increase of retirement age to 65 years as of 2026.There are two main reasons for the increase in retirement age. First, the future pensioners must be sure that their pension would not be lower than it...
Playtech Acquires Skill Games Developer GTS
8 December (BNS) - The international developer of online games and gaming environments Playtech, which does a large portion of its development work in Estonia, is to buy the gaming software company Gaming Technology Solutions (GTS).The acquisition will take place for an initial consideration of 10.8 million euros, with a...
It’s not easy being a jõulupuuehe (and other Estonian Christmas words explained)
It's not easy being a jõulupuuehe, for two reasons: you can't wait to be picked off your perch at the store, plus you carry the added burden of being a compound word in Estonian. This makes life very difficult, since people tend to want to break you up according to...
Estonia’s Tallinn is like a Petri dish of capitalism
Rick Steves' Europe It's amazing what a stretch of water can do. The country of Estonia sits across the Baltic Sea from Sweden and Finland. Yet the struggles of the last couple of generations couldn't be more different on opposite sides of the sea. Traveling to this former Soviet republic...
Post-Soviet Estonia, and its people, thrive
It’s amazing what a stretch of water can do. The country of Estonia sits across the Baltic Sea from Sweden and Finland. Yet the struggles of the past couple of generations couldn’t be more different on opposite sides of the sea. Traveling to this former Soviet republic spices up any visit...
Estonia’s Future
Edward Lucas A crisis is an expensive lesson, and wasting anything expensive is bad. So Estonians should use these hard times to take a hard look at themselves, their society and their state, and work out how to dump bad habits and adopt good ones. Learning from your own mistakes...
International Committee Of The Estonian Institute Of Historical Memory Gathers For The 1st Time
“Estonia and the people of Estonia have endured a lot. However, even today we don’t have a real overview of what exactly happened in Estonia during the Soviet period,” said President Toomas Hendrik Ilves on Decemeber 8, in Kadriorg, at the first session of the Learned Committee of the...
Estonian Students Rank Third in Europe for Skills, Knowledge
BNS - Estonian students are third in Europe after Finland and Ireland for their reading skills and their knowledge of mathematics and science subjects, it appears from a recent European Commission report. According to the Education Ministry the number of students with a poor achievement level in science subjects is...
Romania Picks Up Estonia’s Idea for National Garbage Collection Day
BNS - Inspired by the "Let's Do It Estonia 2008" campaign, NGOs in Romania are preparing for a campaign in which volunteers will collect illegally dumped or littered garbage across the country in May 2010. The Romanian NGO's behind the initiative have named it "Let's Do It Romania." The...
Vaba Eesti Sõna is an Estonian expatriate weekly newspaper with a national readership, founded in 1949 and published in New York City by the Nordic Press.
