Flag NewsEstonia celebrates its independence day today. In fact, it's the 100th anniversary of Estonia's declaration of independence.
I'd like to share my favourite take on Estonia's flag, the famous "Winter Forest" image.
Estonia is a very interesting country. Its language is one of the Uralic family, which also includes Finnish and Hungarian, and are totally unrelated to the Indo-European languages spoken in much of Europe and Asia.
Unlike its sister Finland, Estonia is not usually considered a Nordic country. Estonia has tried changing this, proposing its own Nordic cross flag, and debating on changing its English name to "Estland", as it is in most other languages.
Estonia offers anyone in the world "e-Residency", which gives them an Estonian digital ID card that they can collect from any Estonian embassy, and with it, the ability to start and run a company registered in the EU (Estonia joined in 2004).
Estonia is one of the fastest-growing economies in the EU, boasts of some of the strongest civil liberties in the world, and is one of the most digitally-advanced societies, famously being the first country to hold elections over the Internet.
Today, I will be thinking of Estonia, and to all Estonians:
Palju õnne Vabariigi aastapäeva puhul!