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Two and half years ago Liberal Citizen Foundation (Salk) was established. Already back then one of their goals was to influence the Estonian parliament elections of 2023, so that liberal forces would get majority. And they succeeded. Eesti Ekspress talked to more than 50 people about what Salk has done and how they have affected Estonian policy.
A think-tank founded on the basis of a liberal worldview collected around a quarter of the donations last year that another, albeit longer-established, think-tank which promotes a conservative worldview, ERR reports.
A former long-serving defense ministry civil servant who resigned in September is to start work at societal think-tank Praxis.
On Friday, Minister of the Interior Kristian Jaani handed out the Citizen of the Year award to virologist and government scientific council head Irja Lutsar.
Members of the Riigikogu have been distributing direct regional investments or so-called protection money for years. There has also been talk for years of making the umbrella system more transparent, with the system of allocating budget funds also raising questions for the beneficiaries themselves. Alari Rammo, head of advocacy for the Network of Estonian Nonprofit Organizations (NENO), finds the distribution of the protection money should be stopped.