Category: Estonia

As 2023 reaches its final days, ERR News sums up the most important and interesting events of the last year, month-by-month.

Eight Indian citizens were detained by the Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) in south Estonia after illegally crossing the border from Russia on Thursday (December 22).

A quarter of Estonian boys think women should not participate in politics, data from a new survey shows. The gap in social attitudes is widening between girls and boys, researchers say.

Construction has ended on the second section of Estonia's eastern border, a 40-kilometer stretch in the southeast of the country.

Finland will reopen two border crossings on its eastern border with Russia later this week, Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said on Tuesday, as the number of undocumented migrants attempting to claim asylum has dropped.

Five memory institutes from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine submitted a joint appeal to UNESCO to add birch bark letters sent from Siberian prison camps to its Memory of the World (MoW) Register.

Estonian and Latvian ministers putting themselves forward as "unofficial candidates" for NATO's secretary general can "force the discussion" about who can lead the alliance, Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs Krisjanis Karins said in an interview with ERR News. Karins announced his interest in the job earlier this month.

Norway is "very closely" monitoring its border with Russia for activity that may be connected to the migration pressure in Finland, but none has been seen yet, said Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store during a visit to Tallinn on Friday.

Estonian officials have been ready to face a so-called migration attack from Russia for a long time – the only real question was when it would occur, Veiko Kommusaar, deputy director general at the Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) said. ERR News outlines the situation and what could happen next.

Estonia has already pledged approximately €25 million to help rebuild Ukraine – next year's budget permitting. ERR News spoke to Margus Gering, head of the Ukrainian Development and Cooperation Program at the Estonian Center for International Development (ESTDEV) about plans, priorities, and why work needs to start now.