Tallinn, Estonia News

Promoters are preparing for a high turnout for Madonna's just-announced world tour.

Non-profit organisation Estonian Internet Community recently opened a Web page dedicated to the Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement and announced that thousands of people are ready to protest against ACTA this Saturday[Feb. 11], Postimees writes.

Celebration of the 94th Anniversary of the Republic of Estonia will take place all over the state on February 24.

Spanish manufacturer Atienza & Climent Group will open a new factory in Tallinn next week specializing in the production of plastic toys, including those under the popular Hello Kitty brand.

Entering the train in Helsinki's Pasila, passengers would be whisked to Tallinn in less than an hour.

In Europe, it has become a custom to designate European Capitals of Culture, an honor that has been bestowed on Estonia's capital Tallinn for 2011.

Estonian inflation accelerated for the first time in five months in January because of tariff increases for electricity and heating and higher fuel costs.

Austria's 21-year-old Dominik Distelberger had a strong second day to win the men's heptathlon with 5803 points at the International Combined Events Meeting in the Estonian capital of Tallinn on Saturday.

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Bosnia used helicopters on Sunday to evacuate the sick and deliver food to thousands of people left stranded by its heaviest snowfall ever, while Pope Benedict XVI donned an overcoat to bless the few pilgrims who braved Rome's unusually cold weather to visit St.

Nordecon International AS is one of the leading civil and infrastructure builders in the Estonian market.

A little more than a year ago, the tiny Baltic state of Estonia adopted the euro - at a time when the Greek crisis, and the Irish, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian crises, were exposing the common currency's weaknesses.

Swedish finance minister Anders Borg during his visit to Tallinn yesterday had a meeting with the Estonian finance minister Jurgen Ligi; Borg stated that the large Swedish banks should behave in Estonia and other Baltic states as if it was their home, the Estonian news portal BBN reports referring to Eesti Paevaleht daily.... Read more...

To Corpus Christi for a CSaP lecture by Jaan Tallinn , Chief Engineer of Skype. Since he's the Estonian programmer behind Kazaa and then a lead architect of Skype, I expect him to be talking about VoIP or some such geeky topic.

The annual Simple Session skateboarding contest will take place on March 31 and April 1 in Tallinn, Estonia.

The past has always been something intriguing, hiding the secrets of history. People try to reveal these secrets and create a full picture about society which lived even centuries ago.

Thirty-nine prominent figures have backed the idea of a monument to Boris Yeltsin in Tallinn, which would honor the late Russian president for his role in Estonia's bloodless restoration of independence.

TALLINN, Estonia: Estonia is set to bestow former President George W. Bush with the country's highest civil award given to a foreigner for supporting its bid to join NATO in 2004.

East Capital Explorer has decided to invest EUR 10m into the new East Capital Baltic Property Fund II in the first closing of the fund.

"Estonia and Finland are like two boat crews of fellow travelers on the Baltic Sea who support each other but are sometimes separated by storms; however, they have never lost each other from sight and soon again sail on, side by side," said Estonian President, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who on Jan.

Swissotel Tallinn based in Estonia's capital received the first ever international five-stars award of the International Hotel Awards in association with Bloomberg Television as it was singled out as "Best Hotel Estonia 2011," the Estonian Hotel and Restaurant Association reports.... Read more...