Police in the Baltic state of Estonia stopped a man who was driving erratically at the weekend, only to find he was blind. The 20-year-old was driving in the southern city of Tartu early on Sunday — helped by instructions from his 16-year-old passenger.
Estonia’s Parliament was behind barricades on Saturday for the first time since Soviet tanks tried to crush the independence movement in 1991, as violence rocked Tallinn for a second night after the removal of a Soviet war memorial. Seventy-four people were injured, including nine police officers.
Estonia spirited away the controversial statue of a Red Army Soviet soldier from the centre of the capital, Tallinn, in the early hours on Friday after violent riots against its removal in which one man was killed. Russia reacted furiously to the move and its upper House of Parliament voted to ask President Vladimir Putin to sever relations with the small Baltic state.
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/ 14 November 2006
A shoplifter who snatched a haul of cosmetics in an Estonian department store left security scratching their heads, until they found the ill-gotten gains stashed in his wooden leg, officials said on Tuesday. A limping customer entered the shop in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, the Falck security company said.
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/ 28 September 2006
The European Union’s environment chief on Thursday condemned the discharge of toxic waste in Côte d’Ivoire that killed at least eight people and vowed to beef up policing to stop the illegal transport of dangerous waste in the future. EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said the actions of the Dutch-chartered tanker killed and injured innocent people.
A woman who fell through the floor of an old house in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, while having sex had to be pulled out of the basement by rescuers using a firefighter’s ladder, officials said on Tuesday. "A couple from the street entered the courtyard of an old house under renovation, and the woman fell through the floor while apparently having sex," they said.
Former Estonian president Lennart Meri, a leading political figure in the Baltic states after they won independence from Moscow in 1991, has died at the age of 76, the president’s office said. The former writer and filmmaker had undergone an operation in August last year for brain cancer.
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/ 3 February 2006
More than 1 000 dead birds have been found along Estonia’s Baltic coast following a presumed oil spill from a ship, a spokesperson for the environment ministry said on Friday in Tallinn. Some of the dead birds, mostly snow geese, seagulls and swans, had ingested oil, while others had oil on their feathers, the ministry said.
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/ 18 November 2005
Estonia’s serial tree feller, who stalked dozens of trees in a cemetery in the national capital, appears to have been caught in the act, police said on Friday. ”We arrested a 74-year-old man as he was cutting down a tree at Liiva cemetery with a handsaw,” police spokesperson Reimo Raivet told reporters.
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/ 2 February 2005
The medieval old town of the Estonian capital, Tallinn, will be brightened up for four long winter nights this week by 10 000 lights, hoisted above the city on 500 helium-filled weather balloons. The semi-permanent art installation, called the Light Dome, will illuminate the city every night for three hours.