Новости за 10.07.2015

The first international cyber security summer school will be held in Estonia next week.

EU member states have unanimously approved European Commission's (EC) 11.93-billion-euro investment plan to upgrade infrastructure and boost jobs and growth. One of the selected projects is Rail Baltic international railroad to connect Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with central and western Europe.

Concerns have been raised by a new report that Estonia is breaching its human rights obligations for the LGBT community, the stateless, refugees and asylum seekers, and restricts the use of Russian language.

Chairman of the National Defense Committee of the Estonian Parliament and member of the Estonian delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Marko Mihkelson said that French nuclear deterrence and France’s active participation in the stabilization of the hotspots of crisis in Africa works also in the interests of Estonia.

New figures show that the global Jewish population has risen to almost the same size as it was pre-Holocaust, but in Estonia that level sits at less than 50 percent of what it was in 1939.

Russian army's An-72 transport plane entered Estonian airspace without permission on Thursday at 12:45. The Russian embassy has been issued a démarche over airspace violation.

The Reform Party board was discussing this morning who should be Estonia's next foreign minister and decided to name Marina Kaljurand as their official candidate for the post.

The newly inaugurated Latvian President Raimonds Vējonis gave an exclusive interview to ERR, discussing Latvian security issues, relations with Russia, the Greek crisis, refugees, and same-sex partnerships, among several other topics.

This week ERR asked its readers who they would like to see take over from the recently resigned Estonian Foreign Minister Keit Pentus-Rosimannus.

The Tallinn-St.Petersburg and Tallinn-Moscow train services, which were terminated in May due to decrease in passenger numbers, have been relaunched as a single Tallinn-St.Petersburg-Moscow route.