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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...

During the first half of the year, the State Forest Management Center earned a net profit of 14.4 million euros, doubling last year's yield for the same period. The agency sold 1.26 million cubic meters of timber for a total of 55.8 million euros, with the average price per cubit...

The Tallinna Linnahall recreation center, which despite its closure in 2009 has served as a leisure spot for both locals and tourists, has not received enough support from the city government to keep its territory clean from garbage. The seven employees hired to maintain the building and its surrounding area...

An agreement could be reached this fall on a joint Baltic liquified natural gas terminal, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications. Or, then again, it may not, if all three countries stick to plans to build terminals on their own soil.   The ministry's undersecretary Einari Kisel...

The Social Democratic Party's youth wing is not impressed by the education minister's reforms for free higher education, asserting that there is no such thing as a free lunch. The youth section of the party says that paid tuition is programmed into the reform even though Minister of Education Jaak...