The Ministry of Culture is not planning on launching a misdemeanor procedure against Liisa Pakosta, who resigned Monday as director of the National Heritage Board.
The outgoing education minister, Liina Kersna (Reform), worked hard to keep schools open amid rising Covid rates last autumn, and cannot be criticized for simply performing her role, Tanel Kiik (Center) who was health minister at the time, says.
Fishing lobby groups are challenging a government order which allows a hydroelectric power station near Jõelähtme, east of Tallinn, to continue working, despite being located in a nature conservation area.
A bill to add two new flag days to the existing total, both of them marking Estonia's cultural heritage, has been sent to the Riigikogu, after obtaining cabinet approval.
Following the decision of Harju County Court to impose a fine on two journalists with investigative weekly Eesti Ekspress, after the publication of an article disclosing money laundering suspicions against former management at Swedbank, the two major organizations representing both the private and the public media in Estonia have issued a joint statement.