People who decide to fight illegal wars for other countries need to be held responsible, legal expert Lavly Perling says in an interview. News of around 20 Finns having fought on the side of Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine broke last week. This suggests Estonians joining Donetsk or Luhansk fightersContinue Reading
Minister of Foreign Affairs Eva-Maria Liimets (Center) said on the second day of the meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Riga that the alliance is still prepared to welcome Ukraine and Georgia and that no other country has any right or influence in the decision. That’s right but let’s notContinue Reading
Chairman of the Conservative People’s Party (EKRE) Martin Helme voiced support for restauranteur Elvis Brauer who refuses to comply with government orders in his establishments on the “Otse Postimehest” webcast on Monday. Citizen Elvis Brauer, owner of MEM Café, who has recently come under heightened media attention, belongs to EKREContinue Reading
Gas prices across Estonia were a few cents cheaper on Monday morning after Estonia’s biggest fuel retailers reacted to the fall of global oil prices last week. The price of Premium 98 is now €1.597 per liter at most gas stations and €1.547 for Premium 95. The price of a liter of dieselContinue Reading
Dailies Eesti Päevaleht and Delfi have chosen recently re-elected Mayor of Tallinn Mihhail Kõlvart (Center) as Estonia’s most influential person for 2021. The list (link in Estonian) is made up of 100 people, with the podium made up of Kõlvart, Prime Minister Kaja Kallas (Reform) and Minister of Health andContinue Reading
This year’s Independence Day gala, which was set to take place at Helsinki’s Presidential Palace on 6 December, has been cancelled. According to a press release (siirryt toiseen palveluun) from the President’s Office, the event has been called off due to the worsening Covid-19 situation in the country. A separateContinue Reading
The Estonian government is set to decide Thursday afternoon formally on merging the Estonian Navy (Merevägi) vessels into one fleet with those of the civilian Police and Border Guard Board (PPA). Two separate operations centers will similarly be combined. Defense minister Kalle Laanet (Reform) and interior minister Kristian Jaani (Center),Continue Reading
Kaunas and Vilnius are on Thursday hosting events to commemorate 5,000 Jews from Berlin, Munich, Vienna and Wroclaw killed in the Ninth Fort of Kaunas 80 years ago. The government has said in a press release that delegations from the German, Austrian and Polish cities are expected to attend theContinue Reading
The epidemiological situation in Lithuania is stabilizing, but it is not yet clear if the country is already past the peak of infections, Deputy Health Minister Ausra Bilotiene Motiejuniene has said. “We are in the third week of stable or not increasing numbers,” she told the public broadcaster LRT onContinue Reading
The move comes in response to the opening of a Taiwanese representative office in Vilnius last week and means that Chinese and Lithuanian ambassadors would not work in Vilnius and Beijing and diplomatic representations would be led by lower-level diplomats, chargé d’affaires. “The Chinese government, out of the need toContinue Reading