27.01.16 OLD ... Bernhard Spa Hotel in Otepää, a popular skiing resort in southern Estonia, was destroyed in fire on Tuesday evening.

27.01.16 OLD ... At his meeting with Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk in Kiev Tuesday, Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas said that rumours of Russia's more constructive approach towards Ukraine are severely exaggerated, as Russia has unfortunately taken no real direct steps towards a restoration of the territorial integrity of Ukraine.

12.11.15 OLD ... With December just around the corner, the city's Christmas tree was set up on Tuesday on its traditional place at the Town Hall Square. On the very spot where, according to legend, the first ever public Christmas tree in the world was erected by the Brotherhood of Black Heads over 570 years ago.

30.10.15 OLD ... The Northern Future Forum brought together for the fifth time the Prime Ministers of the Nordic and Baltic countries, and the United Kingdom, to discuss future trends in northern Europe.

20.10.15 OLD ... Estonian Police and Border Guard (PPA) has decided to change fashion, the new uniforms will be launched at the Tallinn Fashion Week.

08.10.15 OLD ... It is not often that northern lights are visible all over Estonia, but last night a powerful solar storm coincided with mostly clear skies, allowing people to enjoy a stunning celestial show.

05.10.15 OLD ... What were the main stories last week?

28.09.15 OLD ... Russia released videos of the exchange of Estonian security official Eston Kohver and convicted Russian spy Aleksei Dressen on Saturday morning.

26.09.15 OLD ... Abducted Estonian official Eston Kohver was exchanged for Aleksei Dressen on Saturday morning. He attended a press conference in Tartu in the afternoon.

26.09.15 OLD ... One year and three weeks ago Estonian security officer Eston Kohver was abducted by Russian Security Services from Estonian territory. His illegal detention - a clear and grave violation of international law - is finally over, Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas said in a statement.

26.09.15 OLD ... Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves expressed his joy at seeing Eston Kohver released and thanked all those involved in ensuring his safe return to Estonia.

17.09.15 OLD ... Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has expanded a list of sanctions against Russian companies and individuals, including two Estonian journalists, who work in the local Russian-language media, Marianna Tarassenko and Andrei Babin.

16.09.15 OLD ... Tallinn Central Bus Station has its 50th anniversary this year. To celebrate the occasion, commuters can look at unique retro buses from 1960s-1980s.

07.09.15 OLD ... On Saturday, September 5, a year passed since the operatives of the  Federal Security Service (FSB) illegally entered the territory of  and kidnapped by force an officer of the Internal Security Service (ISS) of Estonia, Eston Kohver.

03.09.15 OLD ... Nordic and Baltic foreign ministers, meeting in Copenhagen today and tomorrow, called on Russia to immediately release Eston Kohver, Ukrainian citizens Oleg Sentsov and Alexander Kolchenko, and to provide a fair trial for Nadezhda Savchenko.

26.08.15 OLD ... A UK vintage aircraft club visited Ämari air base on last Friday, a few days before the RAF, which manned the Baltic air policing mission this summer, handed its duties over to Germany on Tuesday. 

21.08.15 OLD ... Estonian troops, serving in Lebanon as part of United Nations’ UNIFIL operation, took some time off from their everyday peacekeeping responsibilities to revel in artistic expression for a change.

19.08.15 OLD ... EU High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini, UK Minister for Europe, and several foreign ministers have all called for the release of Estonian security officer, Eston Kohver, following sentencing in Russia. Kohver has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in Russia following his abduction from Estonian territory by Russian Security Services and almost a year in illegal detention.

19.08.15 OLD ... The abduction of Eston Kohver on the territory of the Republic of Estonia by FSB on 5 September 2014, and the illegal detention that followed in the Russian Federation, has been illegitimate since the beginning, Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas said in a statement on Eston Kohver's verdict. "It has been a clear and grave violation of international law by the Russian Federation."

19.08.15 OLD ... Eston Kohver, an employee of the Estonian Internal Security Service, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in Pskov court today. Kohver was abducted from the Estonian border a little less than a year ago, on September 5, and charged with espionage.

04.08.15 OLD ... In celebration of 60 years of national television broadcasting, ERR News interviewed some of the prominent figures who have led ETV during its history. Enn Eesmaa worked at ETV as a news anchor and later editor-in-chief of its main evening news, Aktuaalne Kaamera (AK). He then entered politics and is now an MP, and deputy chairman of the largest opposition force, the Center Party.

04.08.15 OLD ... In celebration of 60 years of national television broadcasting, ERR News interviewed some of the prominent figures who have led the ETV during its history. Jüri Pihel was a television director and one of the main producers of ETV during the turbulent period of early 1990s. Pihel was also responsible for Estonia becoming an active member of the European Broadcasting Union and begin broadcasting the Eurovision Song Contest.

03.08.15 OLD ... In celebration of 60 years of national television broadcasting, ERR News interviewed some of the prominent figures who have led the ETV during its history. Hagi Šein worked at ETV for 30 years and was also its editor-in-chief in the 1990s.

03.08.15 OLD ... Eston Kohver, the kidnapped Estonian security service operative, was warned that his activity in fighting smugglers on the Estonian-Russian border has irritated local powers, Andrey Kuzhkin, a former administrative head of Tomsk Oblast in Russia, said, adding that politicians are deeply involved in crime in the Pskov Oblast.

24.07.15 OLD ... US paratroopers currently training in Estonia and members of the Estonian Defense League conducted a parachute jump exercise from Black Hawk UH60 helicopters at Nurmsi Airfield on Thursday.

22.07.15 OLD ... Cooking pots, barrels and clothes have been pulled from the wreckage of three medieval ships uncovered in a Tallinn building site.  

20.07.15 OLD ... The Pskov court has extended the detention of abducted Estonian security agent Eston Kohver until September 7. The closed court hearing will start on July 27.

17.07.15 OLD ... A year has passed since the Malaysia Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down, killing 283 passengers and 15 crew on board. Despite all the evidence pointing the blame on Russian government-backed rebels in Donbass area, eastern Ukraine, Russia has so far denied any involvement. But a new video, filmed by the rebels themselves, is a latest in clear indications of who is responsible.

26.06.15 OLD ... The European Union raised the issue of abducted Estonian security agent Eston Kohver in the UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday, calling on Russia to put an end to violations of international law and to immediately release the Estonian citizen.

19.06.15 OLD ... In a statement issued by the US Ambassador Daniel Brooks Baer to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the United States clearly asks Russia to free the abducted Estonian internal security service agent Eston Kohver.

19.06.15 OLD ... Kidnapped Estonian security official Eston Kohver was due to be taken back to Moscow, but has remained in a prison in the border area of Pskov, where conditions are said to be much worse.

18.06.15 OLD ... Former political prisoner and businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky said the current conflict in Ukraine could develop into something similar to the Korean peninsular, lasting for just as long.

16.06.15 OLD ... Two ERR Radio 4 journalists Kirill Krabu and Artur Aukon visited the Ukrainian village of Tr'okhizbenka near the front line of battle, finding locals no longer surprised by shelling.

11.06.15 OLD ... The Union of Estonian Architects (UEA) has offered a number of ideas for the building of a super ministry premises in Tallinn, which should house the finance, economy, social and justice ministries.

08.06.15 OLD ... The closed court hearing over Estonian security official Eston Kohver continued today at the Pskov regional court. In a strange twist, Kohver would be sent back to Moscow, where he had been held in imprisonment since September last year.

02.06.15 OLD ... The closed court hearing over Estonian security official Eston Kohver, held at a prison in Moscow since September 2014, started today at the Pskov regional court.

01.06.15 OLD ... Estonian consul in Moscow will not be allowed to attend the court proceedings over Eston Kohver in Pskov because Russian judge ruled that the trial is closed.

27.05.15 OLD ... The Estonian security official Eston Kohver will face a secret trial slated to start on June 2 in Pskov, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed.

19.05.15 OLD ... Estonian Foreign Minister Keit Pentus-Rosimannus affirmed to her Ukrainian counterpart Pavlo Klimkin in a meeting in Brussels that Estonia supports setting up visa-free travel between Ukraine and the European Union.

11.05.15 OLD ... Today serves as the first day of work for an Estonian social volunteer in the city of Zaporizhia in southeastern Ukraine.

11.05.15 OLD ... As a best-case scenario, the Estonian security service official Eston Kohver's court process in the Russian border town Pskov will start in June at the earliest.

16.04.15 OLD ... Former Justice Minister Andres Anvelt said that the captured Internal Security Service (KaPo) official Eston Kohver question is uncomfortable for Russia and the silence points to an unsuccessful investigation.

07.04.15 OLD ... Kadri Liik, an Estonian senior policy fellow at London-based European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) told ERR that corruption is still a natural way of conducting business in Ukraine.

07.04.15 OLD ... On Friday and Saturday, the European College of the University of Tartu hosted the seminar “Critical Perspectives and Critical Dimensions on the Ongoing Ukrainian Crisis: Which Systemic Challenges to the EU-Russia Dialogue?”

06.04.15 OLD ... Ukrainian government and Donetsk and Lugansk separatists will establish an online data-base, to collect together information about killed or wounded people in the Ukraine conflict.

01.04.15 OLD ... Foreign Minister Keit Pentus-Rosimannus signs the decision to support refugees from Eastern Ukraine through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) with an aid worth 200,000 euros.

01.04.15 OLD ... Urmas Paet, Estonian MEP, and Guy Verhofstadt, the leader of Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group (ALDE) in the European Parliament, ask the European foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini use her power to force Russians to release the abducted Estonian internal security service agent.

30.03.15 OLD ... Aleksandr Gorlov, a Russian living in Ukraine, has created a series of online films which appear to reject the Russian propaganda that its countrymen in Ukraine are "being oppressed".

27.03.15 OLD ... Russian Federation investigators will interrogate the abducted Estonian internal secret service agent Eston Kohver at Moscow's Lefortovo prison today.

25.03.15 OLD ... According to Jaan Ginter, the head of Faculty of Law at the University of Tartu, the abducted Estonian internal secret service agent Eston Kohver could be released after Russian Duma has ratified the border treaty between Estonia and Russia.