Maintaining a sufficient population density in rural areas is not justifiable from a purely economic standpoint, yet from a defense perspective, it holds significant merit, Mihkel Kunnus, editor of the «Human and Nature» section of Fookus, argues.
Border guards at the Luhamaa border crossing in southeastern Estonia on Sunday detained a Russian citizen, who had climbed over the fence in the area between the border crossing points in order to enter the Schengen area.
Considering the need to deal with the marketing of the route, Finnish airline Finnair considered it reasonable and necessary that flights between Tartu and Helsinki start at the end of March and that flights take place once a day instead of twice during the summer business travel low season, it emerged at a meeting between the city of Tartu and the airline on Friday.
The emergency call line 112 of Estonia's emergency response center became clogged on Thursday morning due to large numbers of calls from parties wanting to report a bomb threat they had received by email.
According to Statistics Estonia, in April, the consumer price index increased by 2 percent compared with March and by 13.5 percent compared with April 2022.