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Foreign Minister Urmas Paet hit back at comments of Tallinn Mayor Edgar Savisaar, who said that Crimea becoming a part of Russia was irreversible. ...

The head of the Estonian part of the Rail Baltic high-speed rail link, Indrek Sirp, said it is very complicated to find the optimal trajectory for the track in Harju County, which surrounds Tallinn. ...

Estonia's jobless rate declined in the first quarter of this year, marking the first time since 2010 that the number of unemployed decreased on an annual basis. ...

The Unemployment Insurance Fund reserves have seen rapid growth in recent years and will likely amount to 580 million euros - more than 3 percent of the country's GDP. ...

The opening event of Tallinn Day saw the completion of the world's longest sprat sandwich at the Town Hall Square and was served to the public. ...

The Estonian Public Broadcasting election site, valimised.err.ee, will be livecasting the European Commission presidential candidates' debate tonight from the European Parliament building in Brussels.   ...

IRL MP Marko Mihkelson will continue as the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, despite the fact that his party was booted out of the government at the end of March. ...

The top Center Party candidate in the European Parliament elections, Edgar Savisaar, gave a lengthy interview to ERR radio in which he said that the West should accept the reality that Crimea was lost. ...

Voters in Estonia can go to advance polls to elect the European Parliament from today until Sunday, while electronic voting is open from 09.00 today until 18.00 on Wednesday, May 21. ...

Edward Lucas, a senior editor at The Economist and a prominent cautionary voice on Putin's Russia, spoke to Kristopher Rikken of ERR News earlier this month. ...

Foreign Minister Urmas Paet met with United States Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs Victoria Nuland in Tallinn on Tuesday, regarding the upcoming elections in Ukraine and the US's defense posture in Estonia and around the world. ...

More meetings with top government officials are on the agenda today for Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves as he continues a two-day state visit to Finland. ...

A semi-annual EU Eurobarometer study showed Estonians trust the government, Parliament and the EU more than they did six months ago. ...

Port of Sillamäe supervisory board chairman Tiit Vähi says Russia has no plans for a military invasion of Estonia, saying that it would give Moscow nothing but "a lot of trouble." ...

Viimsi municipality, the nation's richest, saw a successful power grab on Tuesday by IRL council members, ousting the Reform Party. ...

A drop in consumption of bootleg cigarettes and alcohol is continuing in Estonia. ...

The Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat said between the presidential press services' official lines on close relations, President Toomas Hendrik Ilves displayed impatience with reasoning employed by NATO-skeptic Finnish politicians and that his view on the alliance's role clashed with that of his host, Finnish head of state Sauli Niinistö.  ...

Estonia's second richest man Hillar Teder, who has donated hundreds of thousands of euros to the Reform Party and IRL, said it is not a question of political views, but of supporting economic policy. ...

The Nokia Concert Hall has changed sponsors and will now be known as the Nordea Concert Hall. ...

After an international team of experts identified "serious security vulnerabilities" in Estonia's Internet voting system and recommended its immediate withdrawal, the Center Party released a statement to demand the cancelling of e-voting in the upcoming European elections. The officials of the electoral committee maintain the vote will go ahead. ...