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The European Union votes 10–5 with 12 abstentions to institute tariffs of up to 45% on electric vehicles manufactured in China.
2024-10-4

The leaders of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia call on the European Union to construct a €2.5 billion (US$2.67 billion) defence line between them and Russia and Belarus to secure the EU from military, economic, and migrant-related threats.
2024-06-26

Russia removes the border markers signaling the border with Estonia on the Narva River, prompting a protest by the EU.
2024-05-23

Three parties (Reform, E200 and Social Democrats), led by Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, agree to a new government coalition, five weeks after the parliamentary elections in Estonia.
2023-04-9

Estonia reports that a Russian Border Service Mi-8 helicopter violated its airspace over the weekend. The Russian ambassador to Estonia was summoned in response to the incident.
2022-06-21

Estonia delivers a shipment of U.S.-made FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine.
2022-02-18

The leaders of the Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, issue a joint statement calling on Belarus to hold a new "free and fair" election with international observers.
2020-08-15

The first school shooting in Estonia takes place in Viljandi.
2014-10-27

Karen Drambjan, a left-wing Estonian lawyer, storms the Defense Ministry in Tallinn and takes two hostages, but is killed when special police forces storm the building.
2011-08-11

Estonia, one of the Baltic republics of the former Soviet Union, adopts the euro as its official currency, becoming the 17th country to do so.
2010-12-31