Why do we need green energy? People usually give climate change and mankind's role therein as the reason. There is truth to that, while the fact that the planet's resources are close to being depleted is also quite important. Estonia needs a national energy security policy, not politicized energy, Meelis Kiili writes.
Of several people detained Tuesday in connection with suspected corruption, the Prosecutor's Office is only requesting that entrepreneur Nikolai Ossipenko be taken into custody. The remaining ten individuals may be released soon.
Keeping business and politics separate is a challenge in a small town with a small pool of active people, Center Party MP Martin Repinski says, in the context of the detention under suspicion of corruption of the Mayor of Kohtla Järve, and close to a dozen of his associates.
The average Estonian lives in a home older than themselves and two-thirds of people still live in apartments despite the rising popularity of private houses, data gathered for the latest Census shows. Thousands of households still lack washing facilities.
AS Repo Vabrikud, a wooden board producer employing 148 in Püssi, Ida-Viru County, filed for bankruptcy last week, regional daily Põhjarannik reported Monday afternoon.