Georgia must decide whether it wants to belong to the West and thus be a democratic country or sink under Russia’s wing with manifestations of authoritarianism ..read more

Estonia rose by two places to sixth place after Finland in the 2024 edition of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index ..read more

The Estonian parliament was unable to conclude the handling of a statement concerning the Moscow Patriarchate on Thursday, because the working time simply ran out ..read more

Many Estonians have not realized that in the event of a NATO collective defense operation, that is if Article 5 is triggered, the Estonian defense forces would come under the command of US four-star General Christopher Cavoli. The man who took office as Supreme Allied Commander Europe, or SACEUR, in July 2022 was born in Europe and understands the key issues of our continent's defense better than many European generals. Editor Meelis Oidsalu interviewed military personnel and diplomats to learn more about the man who has brought new energy to Europe's military defense ..read more

The constitutional committee of the Estonian parliament on Tuesday sent to second reading at the plenary a bill seeking to enable the use of Russian assets frozen under international sanctions to compensate for the war damages inflicted on Ukraine ..read more

Interview with Johanna Suurpää from the Ministry of Justice of Finland, who in 2017 led a working group of experts whose task was to prepare a preliminary report on the implementation of e-voting. Based on the report, Finland decided not to introduce e-voting ..read more

Over the past decade, threats to democracy and elections have become increasingly serious. David Levine, senior researcher at the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) of the US-German Marshall Fund, gave an online interview to Postimehe about possible threats to Estonian online voting ahead of the European Parliament elections ..read more

Putin's strategic ambitions and phobias coincide with the instincts of Russia's ruling class and mass consciousness, Vladimir Jushkin, director of the Baltic Center for Russian Studies, writes ..read more

The Finnish airline Finnair has decided to suspend its daily flights from Helsinki to the southern Estonian university town of Tartu for a month ..read more

The foreign ministers of the Baltic states warn that the GPS signal interference, as a result of which two Finnair flights from the Finnish capital Helsinki to the southern Estonian university town of Tartu were unable to land at Tartu airport last week, is being carried out by Russia and is so dangerous that sooner or later it can cause a plane crash ..read more