The Estonian Health Board is monitoring water quality in more than a hundred public bathing sites and bodies of water during this year's bathing season. Samples gathered so far show that the water quality at Estonia's open bathing sites is very good.
Thursday night, Jaaniöö - midsummer's night - saw parties and gatherings big and small up and down the country, with the traditional Jaanituli (midsummer's bonfire) often providing the focal point for festivities.
The Health Board has announced nine competitions for family doctors to take over practice lists. Of these, four are repeat competitions, meaning a previous competition failed to attract a family doctor to take them over.
The lack of explosive population growth has been troubling Estonians for more than a century. A successful policy on population growth requires consistency in striking agreements between political parties and thus transcending ideological barriers, says Mark Gortfelder, a demographic researcher at the University of Tallinn.
Local governments are becoming increasingly interested in the relocation of Soviet era war memorials and monuments, particularly when these are in prominent locations.