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TALLINN, Estonia (AFP) – Two men have been arrested in Estonia on suspicion of defrauding $575 million (562 million euros) from hundreds of thousands of people in a cryptocurrency scheme, Estonian police said on Monday. Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turogin were arrested on Sunday in a joint operation by Estonian police and the FBI and Washington has requested extradition of the two men, the police said in a statement. “This is one of the largest fraud […]
by Polina KALANTAR Agence France-Presse IMAVERE, Estonia (AFP) – Estonia’s thriving wood pellet industry is pitting environmentalists who warn it increases logging and harms biodiversity against supporters who say it makes good use of wood that would otherwise go to waste. The subject is particularly sensitive in the tiny Baltic state once ruled by Moscow, whose forests cover more than half the surface area and are very much part of the national identity. But, at […]
MINSK, Belarus (AFP) — Belarus on Tuesday launched its controversial Russia-built nuclear power station despite safety concerns from neighbouring Baltic states three decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. A string of incidents during construction of the nuclear power station has raised questions over its safety among EU countries, particularly neighbouring Lithuania. The launch comes as Belarus strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko faces historic protests over his claim to victory in August presidential polls which Western leaders […]
TALLINN, Estonia (AFP) — Estonia reported its first coronavirus case on Thursday, a day after the man returned to the Baltic nation from a business trip in his homeland Iran. Social Affairs Minister Tanel Kiik told public broadcaster ERR that the Iranian citizen is currently hospitalised. “The person, a permanent resident of Estonia who is not a citizen, arrived in Estonia on Wednesday evening,” Kiik said. Local media said the man contacted the health […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Finance said that digital firms from Estonia, a country in northern Europe, have expressed their interest to participate in the bidding for the Philippine national ID contract. It was in the Baltic nation of Estonia where the electronic video communications tool Skype was developed. Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said it was Estonia’s ambassador-designate to the Philippines Vaino Reinart who relayed to him their interest to help with […]
by Polina Kalantar © Agence France-Presse TALLINN, Estonia (AFP) — Japan’s prime minister on Friday landed in Estonia, his first stop on a tour of the Baltic states and other European nations as he seeks to drum up support for his hawkish stance on North Korea. Despite a recent cooling of tensions in the run-up to the Winter Olympics in South Korea, Shinzo Abe has insisted on “maximising pressure” on Pyongyang over its nuclear and missile […]
TARTU, Estonia (Reuters) — Mihkel Joala wants to add a splash of color to the cities of the world. To do that the Estonian inventor has created a robotic five-color spray-painter that he says can produce murals 100-metres tall on buildings. With it, Joala says he is ready to break world records. To test his prototype, Joala’s startup company Sprayprinter decided to print one of the tallest buildings in Tartu – the chimney of a […]
(REUTERS) The NATO alliance is weighing rotating four battalions of troops through Eastern member states, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Monday, in the latest proposal by allies to guard against aggressive behavior by Russia. The Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – which joined NATO in 2004, have requested greater presence of the alliance, fearing a threat from Russia after it annexed the Crimea peninsula from Ukraine in 2014. Carter acknowledged NATO […]
