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Former president Kersti Kaljulaid has reiterated that she will not run in the upcoming Riigikogu elections on any political party's list, ending speculation that she would do so.

Business publication Äripäev is to cease publishing in print form from 2023, the company has announced.

Close to 100 sauna fires were reported in the past year, the Rescue Board (Päästeamet) told weekly Maaleht, adding that the figure is rising as adequate safety measures are not in place, while obvious danger warnings are sometimes not heeded either.

Tuesday's removal of a controversial Soviet-era tank monument had a very personal dimension to it to one family, who once farmed the area where it was sited, on the banks of the Narva River, only to face upheaval and heartache during World War Two and the ensuing, nearly half-a-century-long, Soviet occupation of Estonia, weekly Maaleht writes.

New legislative changes mean that employers in Estonia cannot bar employees from working for other employers, weekly Maaleht reports, though they can take steps to both prevent an employee from working for a competitor and to address work performance issues arising from moonlighting.

The number of digital subscriptions of AS Ekspress Grupp increased by 34% year-over-year in the Baltic States (2nd quarter: 4%, first six months: 12%) and...

A dispute over media freedoms in Estonia reaching the Supreme Court is a good thing in terms of establishing precedent, a former prosecutor general says.

A State Prosecutor has appealed to the Supreme Court to annul a court ruling which lifted fines on two journalists who had authored an online article which divulged pre-trial information in relation to a high-profile money laundering case. The State Prosecutor finds that the journalists and the publication they worked for had violated the Penal Code.

Two court rulings which have found that, in accordance with legislation, journalists must ask the prosecutor's office for permission to disclose the circumstances of pre-trial proceedings, have created an oppressive situation for the media in Estonia in 2022, Urmo Soonvald, editor-in-chief of portal Delfi and daily Eesti Päevaleht (EPL), told ERR in an interview with ERR's Marko Tooming which follows in is entirety.

The Circuit Court of Appeal has overturned fines the first-tier Harju County Court handed to daily Eesti Ekspress and two of its journalists for publishing an article that contained circumstances of criminal proceedings without authorization from the prosecution.