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If you're standing on Town Hall Square, you've reached the very heart of Tartu. Since the 13th century, this spot has served as a marketplace, a cultural gathering point, and more recently, a massive outdoor café. Apart from the Town Hall, its most noticeable feature is the somewhat cheeky Kissing
A controversial monument to a famous Estonian singer and musician has been taken apart and removed from its site in the South Estonian town of Viljandi, a little over a year after it was first erected.
A plaque was unveiled at Tallinn's St Mary's Cathedral on Tuesday to mark the 27th anniversary of the Estonia ferry disaster. The ship sank in the Baltic Sea in 1994 killing more than 800 people.
An Estonian medical student works on COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Brazil By 6shares Estonian medical student Endel Willik is gaining medical experience and helping the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in Brasilia while the country is seeing a dangerously high increase in the rate of infection. Now in his second year at the Higher Education Medical Sciences School – or ESCS – in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, Willik started studying medicine in March 2020, the same month on which the World Health Organisation declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic – and a few days after the fi...
Viljandi's urban management workers have covered a controversial monument to Estonian singer Jaak Joala. Enclosing the monument with a wooden box took about an hour. Viljandi city government decided to temporarily cover the installation until additional negotiations with Joala's widow Maire take place. Maire Joala says the monument, unveiled during the New Year holidays, infringes her rights as Jaak Joala's trademark's owner, and has submitted an injunction to remove the monument, or at least the aspects of Joala's likeness, name etc., by January 18. Otherwise, Maire Joala says she will go to...