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This is a full directory of all 69 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.

Review of Estonian Jazz Festival, Jazzkaar
The fifteen-day jazz marathon of the 17th Tallinn International Festival Jazzkaar came to an end on April 30th. This 17th Jazzkaar was special in many ways -...

Art and Culture

Tallinn weathering the stag party storm
When Sankha Guha wrote a guide to Estonia's capital in 2002 he feared for its future as another cheap stop on the stag-party circuit. But the city has coped adm...

City Focus

Drinking Habits Take Toll in Baltics
RIGA, Latvia -- Augustinas Grevys' glory was short-lived when he bested three friends by being the last to pass out when each downed nearly a quart of moonshine...

Comment

Stag revellers to pick up the bill
Drunken revellers enjoying stag and hen parties abroad could be faced with a bill to cover costs of help from British officials if they get into difficulties, ...

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Estonian parliament won't recognise freedom fighters
TALLINN. April 18 (Interfax) - The Estonian parliament has rejected an initiative by the opposition to recognize the Forest Brothers and Estonians who fought in...

Current Affairs

Estonian soldier pardoned in the Middle East
TALLINN - An Estonian soldier who was sentenced in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to a month in jail and 80 lashes for sexually harassing a policewoman while dr...

Current Affairs

Jazzkaar Festival in Tallinn
From April 15-30 the Tallinn International Jazzkaar Festival will open its doors for the 17th time featuring Dianne Reeves, Vinicius Cantuaria and The Bad Plus....

Art and Culture

2,000 More Hotel Rooms For Tallinn
The number of hotel rooms in the Estonian capital Tallinn is set to increase by approximately 2,000 from the present 5,300 by the year 2008, as several new big ...

Business

Estonian government to reopen ferry disaster inquiry
The Estonian government has said it wants the international inquiry into the sinking of the Estonia ferry in September 1994 reopened. The inquiry into the ac...

Current Affairs

Most Estonians oppose the Euro
TALLINN. April 1 (Interfax) - Opponents to the introduction of the euro in Estonia outnumber its supporters, according to a state-sponsored poll. About 4...

Comment

Ministers wanted to stop Estonia report
Estonian cabinet ministers wanted to stop the publication of an interim report into the Estonia ferry disaster, according to a government source. The report is ...

Current Affairs

Estonia’s experience is important for Moldova
The experience of Estonia is important for Moldova, says President Vladimir Voronin, who thanked his Estonian counterpart Arnold Ruutel for assisting the Europe...

Current Affairs

Oil slick approaches Tallinn
TALLINN, March 20 (Itar-Tass) - An oil slick in the Gulf of Finland has approached the Estonian capital. Estonian nature protection services and border guard...

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Estonia mourns ex-president Lennart Meri
The first president of Estonia after it regained its independence from the Soviet Union, Lennart Meri, has died in the capital, Tallinn, aged 76. A writer, d...

Current Affairs

Ruutel hints to end of term
TALLINN – Estonian President Arnold Ruutel hinted that he would not run for a second term during a recent interview with Kanal 2’s evening news. “We have bee...

Current Affairs

Tallinn - Party Capital of the Year
WHEN the British guidebook author Laurence Shorter was sent to research Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, a couple of years ago, he knew little about it and had ...

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Ruutel to be nominated for second term by People’s Union
TALLINN - The Leader of People’s Union, Villu Reiljan, said that the party is ready to nominate Arnold Ruutel to run for a second five-year term as Estonian pre...

Current Affairs

Finn held on suspicion of murder
A 22-year-old Finnish man has been remanded in custody in Tallinn on suspicion of involvement in a grisly killing that was revealed in the Estonian capital last...

Current Affairs

Tallinn city councillor wears “I Hate Gays” T-shirt on stage
TALLINN, January 15, 2006 – Tarmo Kruusimägi, a member of the Tallinn City Council’s Committee on Consumers’ Rights and Protection of Children, and stage ente...

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