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Tallinn City Government decided to move ahead with a plan to purchase the remaining shares of Tallinn Landfill from Veolia for 1.6 million euros. ...

Tallinn City Government decided on Wednesday to sack 10 percent of the municipality's staff and increase the salaries of the rest by 8 percent. ...

A total of 103,151 voters cast an e-vote at the European Parliament elections.  ...

A special committee on Russian-language media in Estonia recommended that a new Russian-language channel, TV3, be set up next year, and said Estonian Public Broadcasting's existing media channels should be bolstered beforehand. ...

The European Parliament elections will forecast the internal power structure of parties for next year's parliamentary elections, says public relations expert Janek Mäggi. ...

Jevgenia Garanža, head of the Russian newsroom of the daily Postimees, said she agrees there is demand for a new Russian channel but that including a security official in the brainstorming committee was a mistake as it suggested the prospective public channel could be less than independent.  ...

The "force majeure" that Russia is exerting in Ukraine provides the West with the opportunity to review its agreements with that country, professor of criminology at the University of Tartu Jüri Saar writes. ...

The new Economic Affairs Minister, Urve Palo, has ditched a plan to privatize TV and radio broadcast operator Levira on grounds of security and history, as the company also owns the Tallinn TV Tower, a symbol of Estonia's regained independence in 1991 . ...

The Estonian National Defense Committee visited the Kevadtorm military maneuvers on Monday, and its members said the exercise left a powerful impression. ...

After five years of declining bank loan portfolios, Estonians have began to take out more mortgages and business loans. ...

In response to a 2010 complaint from Tallinna Vesi, the European Commission this week ruled that the Estonian capital's water utility does not have have a valid gripe regarding its long-running dispute with a state regulator. ...

Väino Sarnet was elected as the new head of Tallinna Kultuurikatel (Tallinn Creative Hub), while the current head assures that persistent problems with funding have been solved. ...

The majority of Estonians support the Rail Baltic project, a recent poll by Faktum & Ariko revealed. ...

Less than 50 days before the 26th song and dance festival, this time bearing the title “Touched by Time. The Time to Touch”, more than 50,000 tickets have been sold. ...

Independent EP candidate Silver Meikar, who has been scoring points on the youth and libertarian circuit, authored a recent opinion in which he argued that it was time to stop feeding organized crime and think about legalizing cannabis.  ...

According to a doctoral dissertation on the reading skills of teenagers, the habit of reading large amounts of texts on the Internet every day also improves the reading skills of the young. ...

President Toomas Hendrik Ilves has approved a bill which will force companies to declare any transactions over 1,000 euros. He vetoed a similar bill in December.  ...

Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet will appear on the BBC's “HARDtalk” program today, airing at 14:30 GMT (17:30 Estonian time) on BBC World. ...

ERR correspondent Tarmo Meiberg was in the Central African Republic recently visiting Estonian troops and said there are currently only enough foreign soldiers to patrol the streets of the capital city, Bangui. ...

With the exception of the Center Party's Edgar Savisaar, who canceled half an hour before the event, the leading candidates from all of the major parties and a few small fry met in a radio debate.  ...