The Baltic Times, TALLINN
By Kairi Kurm
Jan 25, 2006
The Ministry of Economy and Communications announced that it was preparing a proposal for the government to purchase 66 percent of the capital stock in Estonian Railway from the U.S. and Estonian investors who bought the company in 2000.
Economy Minister Edgar Savisaar was quoted by the Eesti Paevaleht [...]
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The Baltic Times, TALLINN
By Kairi Kurm
Jan 25, 2006
Agu Uudelepp, communications manager of the People’s UnionThe council of the People’s Union took an official standpoint that it supports the purchase of Estonian Railway shares for a fair price. It has to be a reasonable price, and it will be decided during negotiations. We were against the [...]
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The Baltic Times, TALLINN
By Kairi Kurm
Jan 11, 2006
A new regulation that may come into effect in February will enable car importers to bring in models from the U.S. market that are already rolling off European assembly lines. This, in turn, could bring down current prices of luxurious cars by about 10 percent, though the downside [...]
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The Baltic Times, TALLINN
By Kairi Kurm
Jan 04, 2006
Oksana was about eight when a social worker took her away from her drug addicted mother and placed her in a Tallinn home for at-risk children. But for her 16-year-old-sister, fate was less kind: she was placed in one of Estonia’s inhospitable orphanages.
Erki Korp, manager of the Tallinn [...]
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