Two and half years ago Liberal Citizen Foundation (Salk) was established. Already back then one of their goals was to influence the Estonian parliament elections of 2023, so that liberal forces would get majority. And they succeeded. Eesti Ekspress talked to more than 50 people about what Salk has done and how they have affected Estonian policy.
A think-tank founded on the basis of a liberal worldview collected around a quarter of the donations last year that another, albeit longer-established, think-tank which promotes a conservative worldview, ERR reports.
The chief of a family values pressure group has been fined €320 over the ejection of a journalist from a public protest against Covid restrictions in February this year. Varro Vooglaid, of the Foundation for the Protection of the Family and Tradition (SAPTK), says he intends to take the matter to court.
The Tallinn Administrative Court on Monday heard Varro Vooglaid's complaint against the Government of the Republic where he challenged Estonia's coronavirus certificate requirement as a condition for a person realizing their fundamental rights.
The end of the Cold War heralding the "end of history" likely contributed to the conviction that the democratic West was done with wars at home, that any new wars would be fought somewhere far away and, while bothersome, would not affect us directly, historian Peeter Kaasik writes.