Tallinn, Estonia News

For the first time, the Tallinn Black Nights Film will include a section in which indie productions from North America will compete for distribution rights in Europe.

In total, the Port of Tallinn received 310 cruise ships in 2009. The vessels were operated by 44 cruise travel companies and the 416,000 cruise passengers visiting Tallinn and Saaremaa came from 150 different countries.

The results of Swedish bank Swedbank AB will only marginally be affected by the sale of its 13.2% stake in the exchange in Tallinn, spokesman Thomas Backteman told today Swedish newswire Nyhetsbyran SIX.

Estonian real estate developer AS Merko Ehitus estimates that a deficit of new housing space has emerged at the apartments market in Estonia's capital Tallinn and to ease that, it will build three new apartment buildings by summer 2009, public broadcasting ERR/LETA news portal reports.

"For SEB and all other market participants in the Baltic countries it is important to grow the size and improve the liquidity of these markets", says Annika Falkengren, CEO and President of SEB.

I wonder if they ever met physically or even knew each other's real names. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/rbs-worldpay/ "According to the indictment, Tsurikov conducted reconnaissance of the RBS network after Covelin provided him with information about vulnerabilities in the system.

The Baltic News Service reported that Prime Minister Andrus Ansip told a news conference in Tallinn: 'I put forward... the name of Toomas Hendrik Ilves as a candidate fit for the position of both president and high representative for foreign policy.

Paet told Postimees that the meeting that will be held in Tallinn on April 22-23 is definitely the biggest international event taking place in Estonia in 2010, but perhaps also of all time.

Cruise tours to Finland, Sweden and Estonia will start leaving from the new terminals on Vasilyevsky Island for the first time at the end of this year.

Sergei Tsurikov, 25, of Tallinn, Estonia; Viktor Pleshchuk, 28, of St. Petersburg, Russia; Oleg Covelin, 28, of Chisinau, Moldova; and a person known only as "Hacker 3;" have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Atlanta, Ga., on charges of hacking into a computer network operated by the Atlanta-based credit card processing company RBS WorldPay, ...

Federal authorities say they've cracked a sophisticated computer hacking ring that stole more than $9 million within 12 hours last November, securing indictments against eight people from Russia, Estonia and Moldova.

Roll up, roll up, for the best places on the Continent to buy gifts and enjoy the lights at a traditional festive market Gareth Scurlock Christmas markets seem to be getting more popular by the year, judging by the number of you who read last year's guide.

Since the fall of the USSR, Tallinn has managed to look unblinkingly to the future while still retaining vital elements of its past.

The picturesque Town Hall Square of the medieval city of Tallinn is once more hosting the annual Christmas Market with its 64 wooden stalls.

The wreckage of the passenger ferry Estonia will be investigated again. The Estonia case will be taken up in a French court.

Estoniaa s government may sell as much as a third of Eesti Energia AS, the biggest Baltic utility, to help fund an estimated 20 billion krooni of planned investments including oil-shale power plant upgrades.

The beautiful Estonian capital of Tallinn has long been one of my favourite cities, and Ia TMve just come across a reason to return for my third visit: the Kalev Chocolate Museum .

Visiting Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang discussed ways to promote bilateral ties between China and Estonia with President Toomas Hendrik Ilves on Tuesday at their meeting in Tallinn.

TALLINN - The pension system in Estonia in its current state does not have any perspectives, and it was clear from the middle of the 90-ties, nevertheless, no political force had the courage to increase the retirement age, says the the economic expert of the Development Fund Heido Vitsur.

The contract of the county government with the current operator of the route is about to end and bids for finding a new one had to be submitted by Monday.