Nato members are gathering in the Hague for the annual security conference on June 25 where the US is demanding countries ...

Today is Native Language Day, a holiday Estonia has celebrated since 1996. The date of the holiday is the birthday of one of the country’s first Estonian-language writers, Kristian Jaak Peterson. What ...

The first academic year of the transition to Estonian-language education in schools that previously taught in Russian is drawing to a close. While initial fears may have been greater than warranted, ...

In Estonia, 30 percent of the 1.3 million people speak Russian as a first language, and the government seems bent on employing the schools to lower that figure.

The Republic of Estonia is reforming its school system. Russian will gradually be phased out as a language of instruction by ...

Under the auspices of the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Tartu, open-source language models will be trained to speak Estonian more fluently and better understand Estonian culture.

Estonia is a distinctly Finno-Ugric nation with a unique linguistic heritage entirely separate from Slavic languages. When educational institutions market the country’s “Russian side,” they diminish ...

NARVA, Estonia—The quick and glorious victory Vladimir Putin expected when he launched a war in Ukraine has turned into something of a punchline, and with each day bringing more humiliation to ...

The Estonian government has set up Estonian language courses for refugees from Ukraine as part of an aid program that includes housing, employment, health insurance, and the right to study.

I join Elisabeth Haljas and Vladimir Petrov, both 23. Haljas is ethnically Estonian, Estonian is her mother tongue, and she is able to take full advantage of her EU passport.

Truumees added that her grandchildren, ages 10 and 14, are learning the Estonian language and will soon travel with her to Estonia — which felt like a foreign country to her upon her first trip ...