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The myth of the quiet, introverted Estonian falls apart when seen in the context of a whole generation of young start-up founders, who have taken the whole tech world by storm over the past decade, investigative weekly Eesti Ekspress writes, but who now face tougher times economically.
Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE) MP Kert Kingo has been charged with fraud, following an Internal Security Service (ISS) investigation which began in March.
Current Estonian law is not clear enough on the fining of journalists, says the county court judge who recently ruled to do just that.
The most significant problem surrounding the controversial fining of two journalists with investigative weekly Eesti Ekspress is that the prosecutor's office has been unable so far to demonstrate how the journalists had significantly harmed the public interests of an ongoing money laundering investigation connected to Estonia's largest lender Swedbank, sworn attorneys Oliver Nääs and Sander Potisepp argue.
The media must be vigilant in democracies in cases where the judiciary or the state begin to limit journalists' activities or threaten them with penalties, sworn attorneys Karmen Turk and Maarja Pild say.