According to the decision made by the council of the Estonian Education Personnel Union (EHL) on December 12 last year, an open-ended strike of education workers starts on Monday, as the government has yet to fulfill prior promises concerning salary increases.
According to the current plan, a passenger train will start running between the southern Estonian town of Tartu and the Latvian capital Riga next year, the Estonian Ministry of Climate has allocated 300,000 euros from next year's state budget to launch the line.
A four-storey apartment building caught fire in the southern Estonian town of Viljandi on Friday evening after a gas cylinder exploded on one of the balconies, with rescuers continuing to put out the fire late into the night.
The government decided on Thursday that owners of vehicles with Russian license plates have six months to register their vehicle in Estonia or take it out of Estonia.
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said in a speech made at the Victory Day celebrations in Viljandi on Friday that freedom is our common and greatest value, noting, however, that it is not self-evident.