Former head of the Foreign Intelligence Service (Välisluuramet) Mikk Marran was not pressured into applying for his new job as head of the state forestry commission, the RKK, Ministry of Defense Secretary General Kusti Salm says.
Former Minister of the Interior and former Estonian ambassador to Russia Mart Helme (EKRE), along with former Minister of Foreign Affairs Eva-Maria Liimets (Center), appeared on Vikerraadio program "Välistund", talking about the Russia-Ukraine war. Helme said the West is becoming tired, and without a substantial increase in military aid, Ukraine could lose its statehood.
Stances from a political and a law enforcement perspective regarding the fate of a controversial Soviet-era monument just outside the eastern city of Narva ought to be unified before any action is taken, former interior minister Raivo Aeg (Isamaa) says.
President Alar Karis has called recent remarks by prime minister Kaja Kallas (Reform) to the effect that current NATO plans for Estonia would entail the virtual destruction of the country and its people unwise and unnecessary.
The Center Party changed course on a law which would reform the kindergarten sector in Estonia once it had come to understand the bill's details, health minister Tanel Kiik (Center) says.