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	<description>The Estonian economy and business life in brief, 1998 until now. News from various public institutions and the press. Brilliant Fixer OÜ is a company, which offers B2B networking services in Estonia. Besides the contact search, the company is engaged in public relations and marketing.</description>
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		<title>Estonian Air to replace new Bombardiers with Brazilian aircraft</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Estonian national carrier Estonian Air has received permission from the ministry of economy to replace the new Bombardiers that the airline acquired recently with cheaper planes made by Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer. It has been only a year when Estonian Air was handed over three new Bombardier aircraft. The airline needed new planes badly since [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2383706&amp;post=5848&amp;subd=brilliantfixer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two million people live in Latvia, 190 000 have emigrated</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 18 January, the Latvian statistics bureau Centrala statistikas parvalde released the preliminary results of the 2011 national census. It shows that 2 067 887 people lived in Latvia at the time of the census, thus still slightly making it above the 2m mark. From the last census in 2000, the number has shrunk by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2383706&amp;post=5826&amp;subd=brilliantfixer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Risk fund leaves investors with nothing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buyers of units of Gild Arbitrage, Estonia’s first risk fund, are likely to lose all of their investment since the units are worthy nothing and the fund’s liabilities exceed its assets which include a few lots in Armenia that may or may not have gold or copper reserves. The fund was founded ten years ago [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2383706&amp;post=5823&amp;subd=brilliantfixer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The population of Estonia is 1,316,500</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Statistics Estonia, by preliminary data, the population number in Estonia was 1,316,500 on 1 January 2012. The decline in the estimated population in 2011 was influenced by the decrease in the number of births as well as by the increase of emigration. 14,713 live births were registered in 2011, i.e. 1,112 births less [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2383706&amp;post=5832&amp;subd=brilliantfixer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Construction price index increased 3.1 pct in 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Statistics Estonia, the construction price index increased 3.1% in 2011 compared to the average of 2010, of which labour force 7.6%, building machines 2.0% and building materials 1.5%. The change of the construction price index was 2.0% in the 4th quarter of 2011 compared to the 3rd quarter and 4.5% compared to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2383706&amp;post=5829&amp;subd=brilliantfixer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three companies interested in taking over the Tallinn plant of Elcoteq</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to French electronics manufacturer Eolane, also two other companies are considering a bid for Elcoteq Tallin, a subsidiary of the bankrupt Finnish electronics assembly group Elcoteq SE. Jan Kotka, CEO of Elcoteq Tallinn, said that sales negotiations were ongoing with all three companies, but declined to name the other two because they were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2383706&amp;post=5842&amp;subd=brilliantfixer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Estonian football team reached all-time high in FIFA rankings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Estonian National Football Team hit 52nd place in this month&#8217;s FIFA rankings, a new record for the country. The results, announced 18 January, put Estonia five notches up from its December position, which was also a record at the time. Despite not making it through the Euro 2012 qualifiers in autumn, the team has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2383706&amp;post=5840&amp;subd=brilliantfixer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 pct more cargo handling at Estonian ports last year</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Statistics Estonia said that a total of 48.3 million tons of goods were loaded and unloaded at Estonian Ports in 2011, 5.3% more than in 2010. Last year 35.1 million tons of goods were loaded and 13.15 million tons of goods unloaded at Estonian ports, respectively 1.5 and 16.3% more than the year before. Last [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2383706&amp;post=5837&amp;subd=brilliantfixer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>116.7 MEUR of EU funds distributed in environmental sector 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year 116.7 million euros of European Union structural support was paid out in Estonia&#8217;s environmental sector, which is almost three times as much as a year earlier. Financing decisions made in the framework of environmental sector structural support of the 2007-2013 budget period total 563 million euros. By the end of last year 156.5 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2383706&amp;post=5835&amp;subd=brilliantfixer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MP: state should not support exporting to Russia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kalev Lillo, MP for Reform Party caused an uproar among businessmen last week when he said that the Estonian state should not support exporters who trade with Russia, writes Äripäev. Lillo who is also member of the supervisory board of state-owned Port of Tallinn wrote in an opinion column published in Delfi last week that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2383706&amp;post=5817&amp;subd=brilliantfixer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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