The European Commission appointed a coordinator to ensure the completion of a project to decouple the power grids of Estonia, ...

Bangladesh's new textbooks for primary and secondary schools have shifted credit for the country's independence declaration from founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to Ziaur Rahman. The changes for ...

By 1983, he was elected chairman of the republic's supreme council, becoming Estonia's top communist official. He was instrumental in preparing the country's declaration of independence in 1988. After ...

Soon, however, Ruutel was using his position to prepare for Estonia’s split from the Soviet Union, which had occupied the ...

RigacTypeface:> Estonia’s former president Arnold Rüütel died on New Year’s Eve at the age of 96, authorities said in Tallinn on Wednesday. Rüütel was the Baltic republic’s second president following ...

Soon, however, Rüütel was using his position to prepare for Estonia’s split from the Soviet Union, which had occupied the tiny European country on the Baltic Sea in 1940. In November 1988, Rüütel was ...

In November 1988, Rüütel was a key figure in preparing a declaration of independence, with full sovereignty following three years later. In the newly independent Estonia, which inherited a ...

Arnold Rüütel, who was a former president of  Estonia has died at the age of 96 in the late hours of Tuesday, December 31.

Arnold Ruutel, the last communist leader of Soviet Estonia and the Baltic country’s second president after the restoration of independence, has died at the age of 96. The office of the President ...

Soon, however, he was using his position to prepare for Estonia’s split from the Soviet Union, which had occupied the tiny European country on the Baltic Sea in 1940. In November 1988, Mr Ruutel was a ...