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This is a full directory of all 83 articles about Tallinn, listed in reverse order, with the most recent article at the top. If you'd prefer to search for some particular article, please use the search facility on the news front page.

Tallinn to Munich...and back again
Lufthansa Airlines has just announced that it will be adding a new route to its German flights into and out of Tallinn Airport from 26 March this year.Now passe...

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Kaka Goes AWOL in Tallinn
Tall, swarthy and handsome - Tallinn locals were quick to notice the good-looking Brazilian mid-fielder, Kaka, wandering about town earlier this week.The Brazil...

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Ships Ahoy
Get ready for a marathon maritime weekend as Tallinn prepares to welcome dozens of sailing ships, taking part in the Tall Ships’ Race, as they cruise into the c...

Art and Culture

Now You Can Fly From Tallinn to St.Petersburg
Estonian Air are to start a new route between Tallinn and St Petersburg from 27 July, flying travellers four times a week between the two cities.Departures from...

Business

Holiday Tips with the New Tallinn Card
If you’re off to Tallinn to indulge yourself in its sights, sounds and city centre splendor, then to be sure to pick up the Tallinn Card to get the most out of ...

City Focus

Enrique Iglesis is Saku Arena
Enrique Iglesias must really like performing in Tallinn. The hunky singer is coming back to Estonia for the third time, after two extremely successful performan...

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Famous Italian Violinist In Tallinn
One of the world’s best violinist, Giuliano Carmignola, is to perform in Estonia Concert Hall tonight. The violinist will be accompanied by the Orchestre des Ch...

Art and Culture

Jewish Composers’ Contribution to World Musical Culture
The Jewish community of Tallinn found a way to enliven the Jewish life in the Estonian capital. A first concert of Jewish Composers Contribution to World Musica...

Art and Culture

Russian-Estonian Talks in Tallinn
Last Friday, Russian-Estonian consultations began in the Estonian capital. The consultations, led by Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Titov and Chancellor of th...

Current Affairs

Opening Of A Jewish Museum in Tallinn
The new museum's exhibition center presents life of a Jewish community in Estonia, beginning from the 19th century. The visitors will be able to learn all about...

Current Affairs

How About Managing An Airport?
With the decisions on expanding the Tallinn Airport, building two aircraft hangars and an office building, as well as a large cargo warehouse - the Airport's ad...

Current Affairs

The eurozone entry bluff
According to the Estonian paper Aripaev, Estonia may struggle with meeting the eurozone entry criteria in 2009. All because of growing budget deficit which coul...

Current Affairs

Estonia Sends IT Geeks To Defend Georgia
In an unlikely move, and a world first as far as we are aware, Estonia has sent - not a platoon of elite troops or the very latest in military hardware - but a ...

Current Affairs

Tallinn Tops WiFi Table
The American TV Channel 'Discovery Tech' has ranked Tallinn as number one city on the planet for WiFi coverage. Hip hip hooray! Actually that comes as no sur...

City Focus

Tallinn To Get Stalker Street?
It might not sound like the kind of place you'd like to go at night, but Stalker Street is the proposed name of a new road in Tallinn's Rottermann quarter near ...

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E-stonia Guards Cyberworld
For some time Estonia has been regarded as one of the leading countries in the world when it comes to technology, with a higher percentage of the population wir...

Current Affairs

Copterline Back In Business
The helicopter company Copterline is finally back in business flying passengers between Tallinn and Helsinki after suspending flights in 2005 following a fatal ...

Business

Tallinn Begins To Bang Gavel Over Last Year's Riots
It's been a busy couple weeks for the Estonian judicial system as Tallinn courts have been clearing out lingering cases leftover from last year's riots in the c...

Current Affairs

Estonia Celebrates Schengen Zone Expansion
On December 21st, 'the Schengen Zone' - that brave, borderless band of European nations - was officially expanded to incorporate almost all of Central Eastern E...

Current Affairs

Russia Puts Coal In Estonia's Stocking
In true holiday spirit, Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda has been heavily advocating a boycott on all things Estonian, including visits to the country ove...

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5 Charged in April Riots
After being detained without any formal charges for over six months, Tallinn authorities have finally charged five men considered their 'prime suspects' for org...

Current Affairs

Baltic Conference Showcases Russian Nationalism
Ethnic Russian inhabitants of all three Baltic countries rallied in Tallinn last week to further filthy the murky (is that blood?) waters of relations between t...

Current Affairs

'Blind-Drunk' Strikes Again!
As if it weren't ridiculous enough the first time we reported this story, our lovable highway star has been at it again. After his brief arrest last week, the b...

Current Affairs

Tallinn Pride Prevails
Tallinn's fourth annual gay pride parade took place this weekend in the Estonian capital, passing peacefully without any of the violence that marred last year's...

City Focus

'Blind Drunk' Behind the Wheel
Life can be so literal sometimes. For example: When Estonian police stopped a man in Tartu over the weekend for suspiciously erratic driving, the fact that he w...

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Bronze Soldier Breaks Bank
The numbers are in, the figures have all been tabulated, the mathematicians all sent home. According to an Estonian newspaper, Estonia's government spent a whop...

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Reburying the Past
Eight of the infamous twelve (or 13 according to the latest Moscow conspiracy theory) Russian soldiers exhumed from central Tallinn were finally re-put to rest ...

Current Affairs

Tallinn: Capital of Culture 2011
The European selection panel has published its report recommending Tallinn, Estonia and Turku, Finland be approved for designation as the European Capitals of C...

City Focus

From Russia With Loathe
In a recently published survey, the Russians have revealed that they consider the Baltic states their main enemies. Topping the list were Estonians, who some 60...

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Tallinn Asks Smokers to Butt Out
Today Estonia joined Lithuania and Latvia by imposing an official smoking ban in restaurants and bars, clubs and casinos. Under the new law, smoking will be all...

Current Affairs

Downloadable Tallinn PDF Guide Now Available!
We know what you've been thinking: "Gee willikers! Tallinn Life sure is handy online, but I wish I could take it with me on my trip to Tallinn!" Well sweetheart...

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First Estonian Synagogue in 60 Years
Amidst all the recent accusations (from Russia, mainly) that Estonia is a fascist, Hitler-loving country of neo-nazis - look what just opened in the middle of T...

City Focus

New Interactive Tallinn Map!
As promised (o-so long ago), Tallinn Life has finally unveiled its new whiz-bang, stone-sexy interactive ...

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Estonia Attempts to Flex EU Muscle
After months of fierce political pressure over the removal of the Bronze Soldier monument erupted into violent riots in downtown Tallinn and elsewhere in Estoni...

Current Affairs

Blame It On the Drink: Tallinn Bans Alcohol Sales To Quell Rioting
After Thursday night/Friday morning's unprecedented violence in Tallinn, city officials banned public assemblies and the sale of alcohol, attempting to curb the...

Current Affairs

Deposed Bronze Soldier Sparks Riot
After months of shit-slinging from the toilet of Estonian-Russian diplomatic relations, Estonian officials went ahead with their plan to remove the Bronze Soldi...

Current Affairs

Mouse Spends Millions on Dream House
After customers started receiving partially masticated banknotes from a bank machine outside a Hansapank in central Tallinn, it was discovered that a mouse was ...

Business

Impartial Ice Cricket Championship
The first-ever Ice Cricket World Championship came to a rather inconclusive close March 4th, ending in an exhilarating draw. Attracting six teams from across th...

Current Affairs

In Heaven, Estonians get free WiFi
Tallinn has just added yet another feather to its technological pioneering cap. The same week that the country gears up for the world's first ever online electi...

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Jack Grows a New Beanstalk
Perhaps, you've already begun to notice, but the Tallinn skyline will soon be changing. The much-anticipated 'Swissotel Tallinn Estonia' will be tearing the sto...

City Focus

Tallinn holds world's first online parliamentary election
Further exhibiting their embrace of technology since coming out from under the red carpet of the Soviet Union, Estonia will hold the world's first parliamentary...

City Focus

Tallinn's 'Bronze Soldier' Involved in a New Conflict
Tensions between Estonia and Russia have been mounting since a bill was passed in the Estonian parliament on the protection of military cemeteries, allowing the...

Current Affairs

In Defiance of Global Warming...
Good news for everyone lamenting the unseasonably mild winter conditions stubbornly lingering across Europe: A high-tech outdoor skating rink has opened in Tall...

City Focus

Somebody tell the Swedes they've successfully invaded Estonia
On January 12, the keepers of a medieval citadel in Rakvere, in northeastern Estonia, came under the national microscope after a rather embarrassing incident in...

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Victor visits Tallinn
It's been a busy year for Tallinn, socially speaking, as the Estonian capital has played host to a number of VIPs. Heavy metal gurus Metallica were first up dur...

Current Affairs

Bush to defend Russians?
President George Bush is heading over to Tallinn in a little over a week and the unlikely world leader may be asked to play the role of mediator in an ongoing d...

Current Affairs

The Queen's Trip to Tallinn
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Estonia on the 19th of October to complete her tour of the Baltic states. After arriving at Tallinn's International Airp...

Current Affairs

New terminal for Tallinn Airport
Leading construction company Skanska has secured the contract to build a new terminal at the International Airport in Tallinn, Estonia. The contract price to...

Business

Newcastle 2-1 Levadia (agg: 3-1)
Newcastle eased into the group stages of the Uefa Cup thanks to an Obafemi Martins brace against Levadia Tallinn. Martins headed home Emre's right-wing corne...

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Levadia Tallinn 0, Newcastle United 1
Antoine Sibierski scores during the Uefa Cup first round, first leg match between FC Levadia Tallinn v Newcastle United. When the signing of Antoine Sibiersk...

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