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ERR News - Due to the increase in fuel prices on the global market, the cruise ship and ferry operator Tallink will introduce a two-euro surcharge to its passenger tickets. The additional cost will be added on bookings made after June 1. The fuel surcharge per passenger on the Tallinn-Helsinki,...

ERR News - Purchase prices of apartments in newly-constructed buildings are rising, while those in pre-existing buildings have stayed the same since the beginning of the year, according to a representative of the Uus Maa real estate agency. Elari Tamm, the company's executive director for residential properties, said that prices...

No need to wait any longer: as Estonia is not the land where last-minute political earthquakes can be expected to revolutionize consolidated choice, today we feel like telling you the name of the new President of the Estonian Republic. A little less than three months before elections will decide the...

Couple weeks ago our solar energy park site in Kurenurme was visited by several representatives from our neighboring Baltic countries, Latvia and Lithuania. The scientific academic community in Estonia, i.e. Jaan Saar, Director, and Ain Kallis of EMHI as well as Enn Meliakov from Tallinn Technical -have all been very...

ERR News - The US Secret Service opened its Estonian office in the Pirita district of the capital on May 20 to serve as the headquarters "to engage counterparts" in Russia and the Nordic region. "Estonia was selected as the site for the new Secret Service office due to both...

ERR News - Research commissioned by the Archimedes Foundation, an independent body tasked with implementing national education programs, has found that difficulty in getting residence permits is prompting many foreign students to pass up the chance to study in Estonia. The foundation's “Study in Estonia” analysis concluded that efforts to...

ERR News - The University of Tartu's computer science institute has received a grant from one of the world's largest web service providers - 6,500 euros worth of computing power on Amazon's servers. Senior researcher at the Institute of Computer Science's distributed systems group, Satish Srirama said access to Amazon's...

It is a lot of work straightening up a farm, even when you don’t have animals other than a couple of dogs and cats. In the first weeks of the spring thaw, when the snow melts all the broken bottles, cans, lids and whatever has been hidden all over the...

On May 12th, in Royal Albert Hall, London, Arvo Pärt received the Composer of the Year award on the annual Classic Brit Awards gala. The composer was there to collect his award and also to  make a speech, in which he expressed his appreciation towards Classic Brit Awards and his...

Research shows that  shrinking sea ice has caused Arctic phytoplankton to bloom an average of 50 days earlier than 14 years ago. Climate researchers have long warned that the Artic is particularly vulnerable to global warning. A new report finds that the disappearing ice has apparently triggered another dramatic event...