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While the presidential election process has not yet found any candidate from the political parties, be it current incumbent Kersti Kaljulaid or anyone else, the official residence of the head of state, in Kadriorg, east of Tallinn city center, is to be extensively redesigned, following a tender award to an architectural office estimated at €16.8 million.
The presidents of Russia, Hungary and Finland have been invited to this summer's VIII World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples in Tartu, the Office of the President has said. "President Kersti Kaljulaid's invitations to all three presidents - Russian President Vladimir Putin, Finnish President Sauli Niinistö and Hungarian President Janos Ader - are still valid," spokesperson Mailin Aasmäe told ERR on Wednesday. The invitations were sent in 2019 and the congress was initially planned for June 2020, but postponed until 2021 due to coronavirus. It is not known if Putin will attend and in previous...