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Speakers at the 75th Annual New Year School and Confer­ence (ANYSC) have identified challenges associated with digitalisation in the country as...

0"> President Kersti Kaljulaid meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow during a 2019 official visit. Source: Stanislav Moškov, VPK A Russian organization says it has withdrawn its participation from this summer's VIII World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples, to be hosted in Tartu, citing political reasons. The announcement came within twenty-four hours of Estonia's move to expel one Russian diplomat, in solidarity with the Czech Republic. A statement made by the Association of the Finno-Ugric Peoples of the Russian Federation, the cultural body overseeing Russi...

A Russian organization says it has withdrawn its participation from this summer's VIII World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples, to be hosted in Tartu, citing political reasons. The announcement came within twenty-four hours of Estonia's move to expel one Russian diplomat, in solidarity with the Czech Republic.

On Monday and Tuesday, social media was awash with messages of support for Estonia's first female prime minister Kaja Kallas (Reform) and her (almost) gender-balanced government. ERR's Estonian portal compared the number of men and women in previous coalitions. Kallas' government, which was sworn in on Tuesday, has seven female ministers and eight male ministers, meaning women make up 46.67 percent of ministerial roles in government - the highest proportion for a government in independent Estonia's history. In Kallas' new coalition, women hold the positions of prime minister, justice, foreign...