✔ Kersti Kaljulaid will be sworn in on Monday to become Estonia’s fifth President. The President holds office for five years and can be reelected for a second term.
✔ "Annan 10. oktoobril rahuliku südamega ja kindlal meelel Vabariigi Presidendi ameti üle Kersti Kaljulaidile.” - President Toomas Hendrik Ilves
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Friday 7. October
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- Kaljulaid on leidnud oma meeskonda kantseleijuhi ja kolm nõunikku
(Postimees)
“… kantselei juhatajaks saab Tiit Riisalo, välisnõunikuks Kyllike Sillaste-Elling, majandusnõunikuks Heido Vitsur ja vabakonna nõunikuks Urmo Kübar."
http://www.postimees.ee/v2/3864905/kaljulaid-on-leidnud-oma-meeskonda-kantseleijuhi-ja-kolm-nounikku
✔ Like Her Predecessors, Incoming Estonian President Understands Transforming Power of Words
(Paul Goble)
- Ilves: Russia's use of force tactics has reached our region
(ERR)
- Estonia, Finland say Russia entered airspace before U.S. defense pact
(Reuters | Aviationist | RFERL)
"Finland and the United States signed a bilateral defense cooperation pact pledging closer military collaboration at the time when the Nordic country is increasingly concerned over Russia’s activities in the Baltic Sea region. The deal was signed in Helsinki on Friday by the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert O. Work and the Finnish Defense Minister Jussi Niinisto.
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“… one analyst said the flights could have been staged as a reminder of Russia's influence, as countries in the region looked to strengthen ties with the West.”
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- Hollandist ostetud lahingumasinad jõudsid Eestisse | Combat Vehicles Arrive
(ERR | Postimees)
"Eesti sõlmis 2014. aasta lõpus Hollandiga lepingu 44 jalaväe lahingumasinat CV9035NL ning tanki Leopard 1 baasil ehitatud kuue toetusmasina ostmiseks. Hanke maht on 113 miljonit eurot."
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"Developed specifically for the Nordic sub-arctic climate, it has very good mobility in snow and wetlands while carrying and supporting six fully equipped soldiers.”
- Russia (reportedly) transporting Iskander missile system to Kaliningrad
(ERR)
- Interview: Dario Cavegn, Editor of ERR's English-language service
(Latvian Broadcasting - 16. September)
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- Passide kehtivusaeg pikeneb kümne aastani
(Tarbija24)
- 10 väheteada fakti meie uue presidendi Kersti Kaljulaidi kohta
(Eesti Ekspress)
- Eesti panuseks tööd alustavas EL-i piirivalveametis on 18 inimest
(ERR)
- Opinion: Toomas Hendrik Ilves - the President Estonia Needed
(Estonian World - 21. September)
“In the past ten years, President Ilves’s approachability and openness have helped bring Estonia’s issues to a far bigger arena than any president, any prime minister of the country has achieved before."
- Total cost of Rail Baltic project may reach EUR 5 billion
(The Baltic Course)
"As Rail Baltic projections are becoming clearer, it is evident that the total cost of the Rail Baltic project will be higher than the original estimate of 3.68 billion euros …"
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- Kersti Kaljulaid sõitis Luksemburgi otsi kokku tõmbama
(Delfi)
Töö kaaslased: “We are so proud of you."
- Kersti Kaljulaid said Farewell to Luxembourg
(Postimees)
- Arvamus: Kuidas Euroopa võitleb Venemaa propagandaga?
(Postimees)
- ERR Moskvas: piirilepe, uus president ja Savisaare tagakiusamine
(ERR)
✔ Duma to ratify Russian-Estonian border treaty this year
(ERR)
- Soome oleks pidanud juba ammu NATO-ga liituma, Rootsi järel ei maksa oodata
(ERR)
"Soome endine president Martti Ahtisaari leiab oma täna ilmunud raamatus, et Soome oleks pidanud juba ammu NATO liikmesust taotlema ning see samm tuleks teha ootamata ära Rootsi seisukohta. Samuti rõhutas ta, et Soome kodanikke on välispoliitikat puudutava diskussiooni käigus eksitatud."
- Brzezinski: Obama peaks hoiatama Moskvat sissetungi eest Baltimaadesse
(ERR)
- Saaremaa: Kaali kraatrite mõistatus võib olla lõplikult lahendatud
(Maaleht video)
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- President in seven days
(Postimees)
“… Kersti Kaljulaid took a call from Chairman of the Riigikogu Eiki Nestor. What he had to say was brief and concise: "Hello, Kersti. I'm calling you on behalf of the Riigikogu Council of Elders. We have discussed matters and concluded we need to meet with you. To propose you run for president of Estonia."
- Tagasivaade president Ilvese kahele ametiajale: 1253 väljakuulutatud seadust ja mitusada välisvisiiti
(Postimees)
- Kersti Kaljulaid: Eetiline riik ei mängi oma rahvaga
(Postimees)
- Opinion: Kersti Kaljulaid on the concepts of ethical nationalism and confident Estonians
(ERR)
“… Kersti Kaljulaid delivered a patriotic speech on the Postimees Stage at the 2016 Opinion Festival in Paide [12. August] in which she expanded on two words and two respective ideas she found important for her country that were represented by the two letter Es in its native-language name Eesti: eetiline (ethical) and enesekindel (confident). Kaljulaid paired the two keywords, ethical and confident, with two others, forming two key concepts upon which she expanded in her speech — ethical nationalism and confident Estonian."
- Presidendivahetus viiakse läbi suure pidulikkusega
(ERR)
"Uue presidendi ametisse astumine tuleb seekord pidulikum, kui seni Eestis on toimunud. Toompeale rivistatakse ametivande andmise ajaks auvahtkond ja õhtul toimub Kersti Kaljulaidi ja Toomas Hendrik Ilvese ühine vastuvõtt. Teisipäeva õhtul võõrustas Ilves Kadriorus õhtusöögil Kaljulaidi ja valitsuse liikmeid."
- Estonia's wedge-shaped national museum opens on former Soviet airbase
(Dezeen)
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✔ Kersti Kaljulaid kohtus Kadriorus Toomas Hendrik Ilvesega
(Postimees)
http://www.postimees.ee/v2/3859419/galerii-kersti-kaljulaid-kohtus-kadriorus-toomas-hendrik-ilvesega
- Arvamus: Tervist, proua president!
(Postimees)
- Kaljulaidil on eeldused saada väärikaks presidendiks
(Äripäev)
- ETV Intervjuu: Kersti Kaljulaid
(ERR)
✔ President Ilves congratulated Kersti Kaljulaid on being elected Head of State
(President’s website)
"I will pass the office of the President of the Republic over to Kersti Kaljulaid on 10 October, with confidence and peace in my heart," said Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who has held the office of Head of State since autumn 2006."
- Eesti Vabariigi presidendina läheb minu elu sama moodi edasi
(Reporter - video)
- Uue presidendi nime kasutav Twitteri konto pole ehtne
(ERR)
✔ Estonian Parliament Elects First Female President
(Assorted media outlets)
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/10/03/estonia-chooses-eu-accountant-as-first-female-president.html
- Russia -
- Essays, analysis, Opinions -
- The murder that killed free media in Russia
(The Guardian)
"A decade after the assassination of Anna Politkovskaya, news organisations increasingly avoid topics that could anger the Kremlin."
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“… it is mainly female journalists filling the gap left by the murder 10 years ago of Anna Politkovskaya."
- Can West Use Russia’s Border Regions against Moscow?
(Window on Eurasia)
"An article in a German newspaper suggesting that residents of Russia’s Pskov oblast want good relations with Estonia and Latvia and do not support Moscow’s “’aggressive tone’” has raised the hackles of a Russian commentator who argues that the West will fail if it tries to set the border regions of the country against the center.”
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"Pskov residents … aren’t hostile to Estonia and Latvia and they do not understand Moscow’s militaristic tone. Moreover, “20 percent of the residents of [Pskov’s] border regions are citizens both of Russia and of the EU,” that is, they are citizens of Estonia and Latvia, two EU member states, and thus are within the Shengen zone."
- 'Slave labour' in the prisons of eastern Ukraine
(BBC)
"A newly published report alleges that 5,000 people in the self-declared Luhansk People's Republic are held in solitary confinement, beaten, starved or tortured if they refuse to carry out unpaid work."
- Opinion: Let’s Get Putin’s Attention
(New York Times)
"Putin is at war with us, but we are not at war with him - both the U.S. and Germany are desperately trying to cling to a decent relationship,” remarked Josef Joffe, editor of Die Zeit, a weekly German newspaper and a leading strategic thinker in Europe.
- Russia’s European game: What does Russia want from the West ...
(Intersection)
“… and what will it want tomorrow?"
- Is Vladimir Putin Poisoning U.S. Diplomats?
(The Daily Beast - Anna Nemtsova)
- Russia Erects First Statue to Ivan the Terrible
(The Moscow Times)
"Ivan the Terrible ruled Russia for 37 years, during which time he established a centralized Russian state and acquired vast territories through military conquest. His paranoid and violent nature saw him found Russia’s first secret police force, murder his son in a fit of rage and blind the architect of Moscow’s St. Basil’s Cathedral.”
- Putin Suspends 16-year-old U.S.-Russia Plutonium Deal, Blaming NATO, Sanctions, Magnitsky Act
(RFERL)
Due to … "Washington's unfriendly actions toward Russia."
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