Panamanian firm Mossack Fonseca's connections to Estonian individuals were neither outdated nor negligible, ETV’s “Pealtnägija” made perfectly clear on Wednesday. What the investigative program presented covered just their initial look at the documents — and already involved the chairman of the Estonian Bar Association as well as personalities close to the Reform Party.
Only a president with the electoral college’s blessing would have the authority the office requires. Without passing this test, the new president would be considered worth less than the man currently in office, thought columnist Alo Lõhmus.
While the Paris attacks in November 2015 clearly shook a lot of people in Estonia, the attacks in Brussels this week seemed to have a different effect. There was no flood of comments on social media, no place where people went to lay down flowers. While many think that we're becoming numb, Lucia Riet de Mahhov says we're actually managing an emotional reaction.
Every March since 1996, around the time of Native Language Day, Estonians have pored over the question of whether the tongue of this land, in the wind of incantation, rising up to the heavens, can seek eternity. This line in Kristian Jaak Peterson's poem “Moon” asks the rhetorical question to which we have yet to find an answer, namely whether we want to ensure the survival of the Estonian people and culture at all, as the preamble to the Constitution of the Republic of Estonia declares.
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