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Beehives.

Beekeepers in Estonia report poor honey harvest due to rainy summer

Toxic fly agaric toadstools.

Rainy summer leads to warnings of toxic mushrooms, berries in home gardens

Estonia's beaches are likely to attract plenty of people in the current hot spell.

Hot weather puts spotlight on Estonia's top beaches and swimming spots

Domestic pigs in Estonia (photo is illustrative).

Rapla County swine fever outbreak means slaughter of around 4,000 pigs

The Estonian women's epee team (photo taken 20239:

Estonian women's fencing team out of medals in world champs, to face US for fifth place Updated 26.07

Pete Hegseth with Baltic defense ministers Hanno Pevkur, Andris Sprūds (Latvia) and Dovilė Šakalienė (Lithuania).

US Defense Secretary Hegseth praises Baltic defense, stresses European NATO role

The United States has many obligations worldwide including those in the Indo-Pacific region, meaning Europe's progress, as exemplified by Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, in taking leadership and making military development and moving towards a defense spend of 5 percent of GDP is to be praised, United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said.

Signs at a heath center.

Family doctors' bumper profits raise questions about state support

Andrus Ansip.

Former prime minister: Reform central HQ should stay out of municipal affairs

Location of the now-scrapped methanol plant.

Updated 25.07.2025 15:53

Planned billion-euro Pärnu methanol plant scrappedUpdated 15:53

Kadri Kiisel.

LHV Pank head: Our clients' data was misused, so we had to respond

Matis Mäeker.

FIU chief: Authority acted legally in requesting bank statements

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AC/DC in concert at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds, Thursday, July 24, 2025.

Gallery: Rock legends AC/DC pack Estonia's song festival grounds

Arrival of the Olympic flame in Tallinn

TV commentator: Tallinn made very clever use of 1980 Moscow Olympic regatta

The Inglirand beach.

Three children hospitalized after bathing at Tallinn's Inglirand beach

GPS interference shown by GPSJam.com on July 23, 2025.

Russia's new jammer increases GPS interference on Estonia's eastern border

Marek Kohv

Marek Kohv: Dispelling the 'Is Narva Next?' narrative

Kihnu Virve, one of Estonia's recently introduced new ferries.

Estonia's smaller island dwellers concerned about permanent resident definition

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Mark Lajal

Mark Lajal through to Michigan ATP Challenger 100 tournament semifinals

Mark Lajal.

Mark Lajal makes Michigan ATP Challenger 100 tournament quarter finals

LHV Bank in Tallinn.

LHV demanding damages of €247 million from FIU over banking data access

A Ukrainian soldier with a reconnaissance drone.

Defense ministry: Russia's attack drone production quadrupled in past year

Urmas Reinsalu.

Isamaa chair: Center not party of choice for future Tallinn coalition

Shopping basket containing high protein products.

TAI recommends caution on 'high in protein' food product marketing, dietary fads

russia's war in ukraine: latest from estonia

Margus Tsahkna.

Estonian FM: Ukraine's steps to limit anti-corruption agencies undermine trust in reforms

Tiit Riisalo

Former minister elected board member of Ukraine's state reconstruction agency

Ukrainian Ambassador to Estonia Maksym Kononenko speaks at Tartu 2024's Ukrainian Days.

Ukraine appoints new ambassador to Estonia

Minister of Defense Hanno Pevkur.

Minister: Positive change must come in Ukraine before winter sets in

Masks.

Over 1 million Taiwanese medical masks sent to Ukraine via Estonia

Politics

Kristen Michal.

Prime minister apologises to Reform Party voters for Tallinn coalition crisis

Tallinn City Government press conference (L-R: Aleksei Jašin (Eesti 200), Pärtel-Peeter Pere (Reform), Jevgeni Ossinovski (SDE), Karl Sander Kase (Isamaa). Pere resigned on July 21, with the rest of his party following suit the next day.

Tallinn unlikely to appoint new deputy mayors following Reform exit

Mayor of Tallinn Jevgeni Ossinovski (SDE).

Tallinn mayor: The summer political crisis in Tallinn is 'unbelievable nonsense'

Tõnis Saarts.

Political scientist: Reform shot itself in the foot with kindergarten fees saga

Prime Minister Kristen Michal (left) and former Tallinn deputy mayor Pärtel-Peeter Pere (right).

Ratings: Reform Party's support continues to fall

economy

Apartment buildings in a new development in Tallinn. Photo is illustrative.

Apartment market in Estonia remains stable, house prices rising

Aavo Kärmas.

State-owned firms' top executive pay over €15,000 a month in 2024

Town hall meeting at the Läsna rahvamaja, where the planned quarry was discussed

Merko will not take sand and gravel quarry permission rejection to court

Shoppers in a supermarket.

Politicians still divided over reducing Estonia's VAT rate on food

Used cars for sale.

Passenger car sales have dropped significantly compared to 2024

Defense and security

A speed camera.

PPA collects €6.8 million in driving fines in first half of 2025

An EDF member and a drone.

Estonia's defense forces admit drone countermeasures training lacking

New conscripts in july 2025.

EDF's new conscription order disperses Russian-speakers across units

Frankenburg Technologies CEO Kusti Salm.

Frankenburg Technologies first annual report shows losses of over €1 million

Eerik Heldna

PPA reinstates senior police official's contract after court acquittals

society

Sign pointing toward the emergency room (ER) at North Estonia Medical Center (PERH).

Still no real drop in hospital ER burden nearly 4 months after fee hike

Ministry of the Interior Igor Taro (Eesti 200).

Minister: Supervisory proceedings over ISS not justified

Young people riding an electric scooter.

Electric scooter accidents fall during first 6 months of 2024

A drinker resting on a bench.

Tartu psychiatric clinic seeing uptick in emergency patients with alcohol problems

Jaak Valge and Andres Aule hanging the flag in Tallinn's Old Town.

MP once again flies Soviet Estonian flag from Old Town building

opinion

Tõnis Saarts.

Tõnis Saarts: Reform Party has become an unreliable partner

Indrek Neivelt.

Indrek Neivelt: Estonia's regressive tax system has hit a dead end

Opening concert of the XVIII Song Festival

President in Song Festival speech: We cannot stop caring for one another

Matis Mäeker.

Matis Mäeker: FIU working inside the confines of the law and public interest

Erik Gamzejev.

Erik Gamzejev: People should visit Ida-Viru more and spread fewer myths about it

sports

The Spanish women's national team.

Watch: Women's Euro 2025 finals live on ERR this July

Elisabeth Pihela.

Estonian high jumper, hurdler advance in U-23 Euro champs in Norway

Mark Lajal.

Mark Lajal through to round two in Michigan ATP tournament

Irina Embrich and Julia Beljajeva.

Fencers Irina Embrich and Julia Beljajeva through to world championships main draw

Allika Inkeri Moser.

Estonian pole vaulter sets new U18 world record om Skopje

foreign affairs

Estonian and US flags at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tallinn.

ERR in the US as 85 years of the Welles Declaration marked

The Georgian diaspora in Estonia protested against the Georgian government's policies on December 2, 2024.

Estonia sanctions 19 more Georgian officials over democratic crackdown

Troops at the Inherent Resolve base in Erbil, Iraq.

ERR in Iraq: Defense Forces returning from Estonia's largest military operation

Rainer Saks

Expert: Trump feels he has been fooled by Russia

Palestinian solidarity rally in Tallinn on July 15, 2025.

Gallery: Rally held in Tallinn to support Palestinians

science and research

The apartment block at Akadeemia tee 6.

Mustamäe's oldest apartment blocks undergoing innovative renovation

Estonian students ready to take an exam. Photo is illustrative.

Majority of Tallinn's 4th grade students fail Estonian tests after first transition year

Ivo Visak

'AI Leap' testing two large artificial intelligence platforms this summer

Folklorist Piret Voolaid said Estonian humor is often quiet, sarcastic, and self-deprecating.

Estonians are silent masters of irony, says folklorist

Youtuber Darren Jason Watkins Jr., known as IShowSpeed, with folk dancers at Stenbock House on July 15, 2025.

Researcher: IShowSpeed's €30,000 visit was cheap advertising for Estonia

culture

'Maast Lahti!' the 32nd annual Viljandi Folk Music Festival.

Gallery: "Maast lahti!" traditional music festival gets underway in Viljandi

Performance of

Gluck's 'Orpheus and Eurydice' performed at Saaremaa Opera Days

HeadRead 2025: Édouard Louis on class, identity, and politics

Russian Cultural Center.

Tallinn votes to merge Russian Cultural Center with other institutions

Drone photos show the 90,000 people present at the main and final

Tallinn's Song Festival Grounds to undergo redevelopment

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Peter Pomerantsev.

HeadRead 2025: Peter Pomerantsev on what Russian propaganda really is

Nii Ayikwei Parkes.

HeadRead 2025: In conversation with British-Ghanaian writer Nii Ayikwei Parkes

Rob Wilkins at 2025's HeadRead.

HeadRead 2025: Rob Wilkins on footnotes and working with Terry Pratchett

Daisy Goodwin.

HeadRead 2025: In conversation with British writer Daisy Goodwin

Emanuele Coccia at the 2025 HeadRead festival in Tallinn.

HeadRead 2025: In conversation with French philosopher Emanuele Coccia

Clare Mackintosh.

HeadRead 2025: In conversation with British crime writer Clare Mackintosh

features and interviews

Moldovan Police Commissioner Valeriu Harabara lectures about the current security threats in Moldova.

As hybrid threats weaken public trust in Moldova, Estonians help to push back

Riivo Kruuk's completed work in Orissaare, Saaremaa.

'A dream come true': Estonian-American artist gets back to his roots with Saaremaa mural

A police officer handing out a postcard from the Grim Reaper over Midsummer 2025.

Estonia's police hand out postcards from Death to celebrate good drivers

An ESTDEV sign outside a group home in Ukraine's Zhytomyr region.

Building a stronger community: How Estonia continues to help rebuild Ukraine

Herman Castle after the Soviet bombing in 1944.

False narratives: How Narva was rebuilt from the ruins of war

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The main and final seven-hour concert of the "Iseoma" Song and Dance Festival takes place on July 6, 2025.

Watch again: 'Iseoma' XXVIII Song Festival main concert

Opening concert of the XVIII Song Festival "Iseoma" on July 5, 2025..

Watch again: Opening performance of Estonia's 'Iseoma' XXVIII Song Festival

The Song and Dance Festival Grand Procession reaches its final destination, the Song Festival Grounds, after a rainy parade through Tallinn on July 5, 2025.

Watch again: Song and Dance Festival Grand Procession

Watch again: 'Iseoma' Folk Music Concert

First performance of the "Iseoma" Dance Festival performance on July 3, 2025.

Watch again: First 'Iseoma' Dance Festival performance

tallinn

Coop Bank building in Tallinn's Kesklinn.

Tallinn to sell city-owned stake in Coop Bank

Reform Party's Tallinn chapter meeting in late June.

Reform Party leaves Tallinn coalition

A hedgehog water station in Tallinn.

Drinking stations for thirsty hedgehogs open in Tallinn

Jevgeni Ossinovski and Pärtel-Peeter Pere after the vote of no-confidence.

Survey: Tallinn political crisis deals heavy blow to Reform's rating

Editorials published on July 22, 2025.

Newspapers criticize parties' political infighting in Tallinn

tartu

Pigs.

Another ASF outbreak found at Tartu County farm

The seating area along the Emajõgi River in Tartu.

Police: Action needed to improve safety of Tartu's Emajõgi River promenade

Tartu Elektriteater.

Tartu movie screening to raise awareness of Ukrainian prisoners in occupied territories

Rally Estonia 2023.

WRC Rally Estonia 2025 gets underway in Tartu on Thursday

Raekoja plats in central Tartu.

Full program announced for this summer's Tartu Old Town Buzz festival

narva

Fish on Narva's coat of arms.

New exhibition explores symbols of Narva over 600 years

Narva River and its rapids, after a lock gate on the Russian side of the border was opened for the second time this month.

Narva River 'waterfalls' return after reopening of reservoir gates

Classroom. Photo is illustrative.

45 teachers lose jobs in Narva after failing to meet language requirements

A poster set up on the Russia-facing wall of the Hermann Castle in Narva on May 9, 2025.

Russia charges Estonian museum director with 'rehabilitating Nazism'

Flooding at Narva's Joaorg recreation area on July 17, 2025.

Gallery: Narva River floods again

galleries

The Baltic Council of Minister's annual prime ministers meeting was held in Latvia in 2025.

Gallery: Baltic prime ministers bake bread during annual informal meeting

The opening day of the 2025 I Land Sound festival.

Gallery: I Land Sound festival gets underway in Saaremaa

Major fire breaks out at Kohtle-Järve industrial building

Live firing exercise using the newly acquired French-made CAESAR self-propelled howitzers, July 17, 2025.

Gallery: Estonian reservists fire French CAESAR self-propelled guns for first time

The Aigu Om! festival took place for the fifth time this July in Võru County.

Gallery: Aigu Om! invites festivalgoers to take their time in Võru County

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podcasts

Ari Matti Mustonen has appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience and been warm up act at his live show as well.

Feature | Estonia's English-language podcasts, all in the one place

Tallinn Airport.

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Maarja Merivoo-Parro.

Estonia Explained part six: The language has issues

Estonia Explained part five: What is with the sauna?

Maarja Merivoo-Parro.

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