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ERR News - The world’s first Skype telephone booth, which enables people to make free worldwide calls to other users of the popular internet telephony application, was opened to the public at Tallinn Airport on March 18. Skype is a computer application that allows users to make voice calls over...

Enticed by the action and higher salaries offered by private security contractors, dozens of professional Navy officers are quitting the national force, leaving at least one ship unmanned. "One of the main reasons that people leave is money," said a Navy officer, who wished to remain anonymous, to ETV. "Maybe...

I recall attending a Latvian Independence Day celebration in Los Angeles.  As Estonia’s honorary consul in California I had a front row seat, visible to everyone in attendance.  The program lasted longer than expected – almost three hours.  Except for our introduction by the emcee, my brief remarks and the...

ERR News - American mining company Molycorp has bought up a 90.023 percent share in Estonia's rare earth metals producer AS Silmet, taking control of one of very few sources of the much-sought materials outside China. The Colorado-based firm paid approximately 62 million euros for its shares, buying 80 percent...

ERR News - At a press conference on April 7, the Estonian ski association announced that the level of growth hormone in Andrus Veerpalu's body was indeed found to be higher than permitted before the athlete decided to skip the Oslo world championships and end his career. On February 23,...

The event, the "Ehe Eesti Disainilaat" (design fair) was held in the month of veebruar. EHE is a beautiful, albeit slightly elusive word. Most people would say it means jewel. And they're right. Jewellery is usually spoken of in the plural (ehted). But in this case we're not talking about...

  I came across this on the internet: On 8 April, 2010, five high-tech companies signed EU grant agreements with the Ministry of Economics of the Republic of Lithuania at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Vilnius University in Visoriai.  Together with foreign investors, these companies are setting...

  ERR News - The US government's Committee on Foreign Investment gave Eesti Energia the green light to acquire Oil Shale Explo-ration Company (based in Alabama), which held the biggest and most complex private oil shale reserves in the state of Utah. "We want to welcome to Utah," said Governor...

  ERR News - Estonia is receiving 507 electric cars - for which it plans to establish a pervasive nationwide network to charge the vehicles - in exchange for trading 10 million carbon dioxide credits to Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi.   The i-MiEV make cars, which are to arrive in Decem-ber,...

  ERR News - The Reform Party's leadership decided at a meeting on March 9, to start coalition talks with IRL (Pro Patria and Res Publica Union), leaving out the Social Democrats, with whom they also held preli-minary discussions, Reform spokesman Silver Pukk told uudised.err.ee.  Reform's Secretary General Kristen Michal...