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• Kohtla-Järve mayor, businessmen detained

  
  BONJOUR L'ESTONIE — Authority: 144
  The security police detained yesterday Jevgeni Solovjov , mayor of Northeast Estonian town of Kohtla-Järve and two local businessmen, Nikolai Ossipenko and Rinat Hamidullin,  under suspicion of bribery. Ossipenkos company N&V; has for years won large road maintenance contracts and together with Hamidullin who ...
  2 days ago

• Search called off for man overboard

  
  BONJOUR L'ESTONIE — Authority: 144
  A search and rescue operation for a man who fell off a cruise ship off the coast of Hanko was called off Sunday morning. The man is now presumed drowned. Authorities said they did everything they could to find him, but to no avail. The man fell off the Tallink Victoria which was en route from Tallinn to Stockholm ...
  5 days ago

• Traffic offenders prefer detention to fine

  
  BONJOUR L'ESTONIE — Authority: 144
  More and more Estonians who are fined for violating traffic offenses prefer to spend time in house of detention rather than pay a fine. According to law enforcement authorities, judges in Tartu alone are reviewing about 70 applications from drunk drivers and speeding offenders asking to replace their fines with ...
  1 week ago

• Secretive Estonian businessmen charged for manipulating stock prices

  
  BONJOUR L'ESTONIE — Authority: 144
  Toomas Tool, one of the richest Estonian businessmen who owns whole blocks in Tallinn Old Town , has been charged for manipulating stock prices. According to aripaev.ee, prosecutors have submitted to court a criminal case where Tool and former SEB stockbroker Karoly Kirber are accused of manipulating the securities ...
  1 week ago

• "The Amazing race" recap : Mud, more mud and vocabulary troubles ...

  
  BONJOUR L'ESTONIE — Authority: 144
  Buckys back with a rundown on last nights muddy episode of The Amazing Race .   This week’s leg of The Amazing Race begins with the Globetrotters, who finished first last week, departing at 2:23 a.m. to catch a ferry for a 16-hour ride across the Baltic Sea to Estonia.  They get to the ferry ...
  1 week ago

• Eastern Europeans charged in payment processor hack

  
  BONJOUR L'ESTONIE — Authority: 144
  A group of Eastern Europeans was charged with hacking into the network of payment processor RBS WorldPay and using counterfeit debit cards at ATMs around the world to steal more than $9 million, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. Four of the defendants allegedly collaborated to break into the RBS ...
  2 weeks ago

• Actu en ce moment des pays

  
  Moral Fibre Magazine — Authority: 138
  La prévention permet dendiguer la violence conjugale Pour lutter contre les violences conjugales qui ont fait 156 victimes en 2008, Michèle Alliot-Marie a dévoilé ce jeudi son nouveau plan daction. Un bon début, selon Françoise Brié, vice-présidente de la Fédération nationale Solidarité Femmes. Moscou ...
  3 weeks ago

• Obama and Estonia

  
  BONJOUR L'ESTONIE — Authority: 144
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  4 weeks ago

• U.S. warship pays visit to Estonia

  
  BONJOUR L'ESTONIE — Authority: 144
  TALLINN  - A U.S. missile destroyer, which was a target of a terrorist attack in 2000, has arrived on a friendly visit to the port of Tallinn, the U.S. Embassy in Estonia said. USS Cole, an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis-equipped guided missile destroyer, will stay in the Estonian capital until today, Tuesday. The ...
  4 weeks ago

• Lativan experts say meteorite crater is a coax

  
  BONJOUR L'ESTONIE — Authority: 144
  RIGA - The excitement last night in Latvia was over a great big, smoking crater supposedly created by meteorite. But after rushing to the scene this morning, experts are saying the hole is just too tidy to be real. Fire and rescue officials in the area near Latvias border with Estonia received a called about the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Hannah and Beckham !

  
  BONJOUR L'ESTONIE — Authority: 144
  A TINY detail like Estonia not qualifying for the World Cup has not stopped the country’s leading pop star from planning a tournament song. Hannah, who sang both national anthems when England played Estonia at Wembley in October 2007, has set her sights on singing for England — and with David Beckham. ‘I’m ...
  5 weeks ago

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