Estonia News News Estonia » Politics: Estonia's ruling party taps climate minister for the Baltic country's top job
HELSINKI (AP) — Estonia’s ruling center-right Reform Party has chosen Saturday Climate Minister Kristen Michal to replace outgoing leader Kaja Kallas as prime minister of the Baltic country. The ...
News Estonia » Politics: Erik Gamzejev: The political hodgepodge of Kohtla-Järve's June coup
Järve's new governing alliance brings together the Koos party, politicians from Estonia's major parties and figures linked to the late local oligarch Nikolai Ossipenko, Erik Gamzejev finds.
News Estonia » Politics: Estonia says NATO jet shot down drone over its territory
Estonia has said a Nato fighter jet shot down a drone, which it suspects was a Ukrainian projectile knocked off course by Russian electronic jamming, over its territory. Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur ...
News Estonia » Politics: Estonia to Curb Voting Rights in Bid to Deter Russian Influence
Estonia will push forward with plans aimed at stripping Russian and Belarusian citizens of the right to vote in local elections, a measure that seeks to crack down on what the government sees as ...
News Estonia » Politics: Estonian lawmakers look to make country's Orthodox church cut ties with Moscow
(RNS) — Lawmakers in Estonia’s Parliament are debating a draft bill that would effectively require the Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, the Russian Orthodox Church’s presence in ...