As the weather continues to more stably warm up, electric bikes belonging to the self-service public Tartu Smart Bike Share system are being deployed in Estonia's second-biggest city again, supplementing the standard bikes that remain available year round.
In an address at Thursday's Tartu City Council meeting, prominent Center Party member and city councilman Nikolai Põdramägi referred repeatedly to the war in Ukraine as a civil war, called NATO's desire to defend Estonia into question, referred to plans to rename the city's Victory Bridge as Russophobic and recounted a version of recent Estonian history reminiscent of Soviet historical propaganda.
This year, March 1 is Vastlapäev (Shrove Tuesday) in Estonia which means the time has come to officially eat vastlakuklid, buns topped with whipped cream, marzipan, jam or many other things. But where did they come from?