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FMReview - 12 August - Estonian Public Broadcasting (ERR) has launched an English-language news site at http://news.err.ee to present objective information from Estonia to an international audience. The newsdesk was established to help increase interest in Estonia from the international public as well as wire services by providing a source...

In a Newsweek article from the August 23&30, 2010 issue, (cover story: The Best Country In The World Is…) Mac Margolis writes in an article regarding “e-government” about Estonia’s trailblazing dominance in this area. He explains that if Franz Kafka had grown up in modern Tallinn instead of 19th century...

Estonian Day Event In Salisbury Maryland on the Campus of Salisbury University in the Great Room of Halloway Hall at 2:00 PM, Saturday, 11 September 2010. Also the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Maryland/Estonian Exchange Council (MEEC) on the campus of Salisbury University in the Montgomery Room of the...

9 July (BNS) - Smartpost, which has created a high-tech parcel delivery system in Estonia during the past two years, has signed a contract for the sale of its network to the Finnish logistics company Itella Corporation in order to fully dedicate expansion to foreign markets. By a mutual agreement,...

15 July (BNS) - The number of ethnic Estonians living in the world now is 1 060 000, of whom 930 000 live in Estonia and about 130 000, or 12%, in other countries, it appears from a human resource report presented by the Estonian Co-operation Assembly on July 15....

12 July (BNS) - According to July 12 issue of the Times, Sofi Oksanen, a Finnish writer of Estonian roots, is becoming as popular a writer as the Swede Stig Larsson. The Times wrote that although Oksanen has sold only a few hundred thousand copies of her books compared with...

The Institute for European Studies at the Department of International Relations of Tallinn School of Economics and Business Administration (Tallinn University of Technology), Estonia has published a peer-reviewed serial edition called Proceedings of the Institute for European Studies (abbreviation IES Proceedings) for some years. Since 2009 it is a peer-reviewed...

European Commission, July 13, 2010 - The ECOFIN Council took the final decisions on the euro adoption in Estonia and confirmed that Estonia is ready and will adopt the euro on  January 1, 2011. This decision culminates an approval process that began on May 12, with the adoption of the...

The maximum air temperature record for this year was surpassed in the South Estonian towns of Elva and Valga Monday evening as the temperature hit 30.8 degrees Celsius in Elva and 30.5 degrees in Valga between 6 and 7 p.m.As the rising trend in air temperatures continues, several more records...

*Two months into this year’s Expo, in Shanghai, Estonia has recorded the millionth visitor to its  pavilion, reports EPL Online. This visitor was a 17-year-old Chinese schoolboy named Wang Qi. The number of visitors at the pavilion will probably exceed the total number of residents in Estonia before the end...