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Three Sisters Tallinn: Full Review

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday

Three Sisters Tallinn: Full Review from Mr ? Mrs Smith.

Estonia: Online Voting for Tallinn's Theater vs Cultural Center

Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008

Cafebabel - Tallinn writes about Tallinn government's initiative of an online vote on “whether the new city theatre’s building or the new cultural centre Kultuurikatel should be built before the other.”

New car sales down 50 percent

Baltic Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

TALLINN - New car sales in November fell by a staggering 53 percent year-on-year, figures by the Estoniancar sale and service companies' association AMTEL show. A total of 1,147 new passenger cars were sold to the domestic market in November -- compared to the same month last year, the sale o

Estonian government and SAS battle for national carrier

Baltic Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

TALLINN - As the push to inject funds into floundering national carrier Estonian Air tightens, both the Estonian government and SAS have announced a desire to buy out the other’s stake and become the majority shareholder. On Thursday Nov. 27 Prime Minister Andrus Ansip announced that Scandinavian A

• Estonian ferry group denies airline takeover plan - BONJOUR L'ESTONIE

Estonia’s economic woes deepen

Baltic Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

TALLINN - Estonia’s economic outlook is continuing to worsen as the Finance Ministry has forecast a 3.5 percent GDP contraction in 2009, significantly worse than previous government estimates that the economy would grow by as much as 2.6 percent. On Nov. 27 the Finance Ministry announced the resul

Baltic citizens stranded by Thai turmoil

Baltic Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

TALLINN - Hundreds of Baltic citizens were marooned in protest-riddled Thailand, unable to fly home due to the closure of Bangkok’s besieged main airports. According to information released by the Estonian foreign ministry, a total of 224 Estonians are known to have been affected by the standstill

Estonia soldiers receive new guarantees

Baltic Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

TALLINN - The Estonian parliament on Dec. 3 unanimously passed an amendment to the Defense Forces Service Act, increasing the social guarantees of soldiers who have fallen ill or have been injured in service and their close relatives. According to the amendment, members of the defense forces w

Plans to close half of Estonia's high schools in effect

BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008

TBT staff in cooperation with BNS TALLINN - According to a plan for the reorganization of the schoool network now being prepered for at the Education Ministry about one hundred Estonian high schools, called gumnaasiumid, gymnasia, in Estonian, could be closed, the daily Eesti Päevaleht reported. Education Minister Tonis Lukas said the ministry is considering how many high schools are needed in Estonia...

• Plans to close half of Estonia's high schools in effect - Baltic Times

Stand-off in Estonia over legislators' wage freeze

BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008

Tallinn - Parliament and president were locked in a legislative stand-off in Estonia on Tuesday after the Estonian parliament, the Riigikogu, passed a bill on freezing the wages of deputies for a second time. President Toomas Hendrik Ilves refused to sign the same piece of legislation last week. The effort by Estonian parliamentarians to freeze their own salaries as part of a national austerity plan...

• Stand-off in Estonia over legislators' wage freeze - The Earth Times Online Newspaper

Estonian industrial output plummets

Baltic Times (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008

TALLINN – The Estonian national statistics agency has reported that the country’s industrial output fell by a staggering 11 percent year-on-year in October. Industrial output fell by 5 percent when compared to the previous month. In manufacturing, production fell by 10 percent compared with th

9th Annual Simpel Session

Skateboarder Feed - All Stories (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008

Simpel Session Skateboarding Contest in Tallinn, Estonia.

Estonian ferry group denies airline takeover plan

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008

Tallinn - Tallink Group, an Estonian operator of ferries in the Baltic Sea denied press reports Monday that it is preparing to take to the skies as well as the waves by purchasing national airline Estonian Air. Newspaper Aripaev reported that Tallink...

You won’t be playing this orgel

games (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008

I was recently on a trip to Tallinn, Estland. At a mall I encountered this: What kind of game is

Traffic regulator carried 1.5 km in Tallinn centre on car bonnet ..!

BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008

Toomas Hõbemägi A most unusual incident occurred in central Tallinn yesterday when a driver who was ignoring the indications of a traffic regulator drove 1.5 km with the regulator on the car’s bonnet. Postimees writes that the regulator, Arvo Lindevest, claims that when he blocked the Ford Mustang driven by Kalev Rebane who wanted to make an illegal turn to the Vabaduse square, Rebane drove into him...

BMX : Simpel Session

BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008

by Robin Fenlon It's only 50 days until the riding population of the world all descend upon the Estonian city of Tallinn for the Simpel Session. This contest is regarded by the majority who go as being one of the best BMX in the world. The atmosphere is relaxed, the riding is off the hook and the parties are long... Tickets and hotels are on the cheap side and a it's not a bad way to spend some of...