A four-hectare island drifting on the Narva Reservoir has crossed the border between Russia and Estonia and floated to the Estonian shore, the Pohjarannik newspaper said on Monday.

Black eyed, black haired, dark skinned Estonian Anna-Kaisa had never seen her father. She only knew her father is an Armenian from Noyemberyan region, his name is Manvel Khachikyan and he is 49 year old. She knew just this much when she came to Armenia and found her father having never seen him in 27 years.

Estonia's government decided on Thursday to set up a commission on joining the adapted Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty before Russia's moratorium comes in force on December 12.

Professor Douglas K Peterson writes that Estonia has so many more opportunities to be successful in quick-developing sectors like tourism, shipping and IT.

Estonia suggests a visa-free regime to Armenia. Narod.ru reports that the suggestion was made during the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Estonia Vartan Oskanian and Urmas Paet in Brussels.

Ethnic Russian activists will stage rallies Tuesday and Thursday in Estonia's capital calling for the release of two group members arrested in April for protesting against the removal of a Soviet war memorial.

Estonia on Tuesday reburied the remains of eight Soviet soldiers exhumed from a war grave - a move that had sparked riots in April and infuriated neighboring Russia.

The Estonian Maritime Academy has developed a project to construct an underwater nuclear reactor off the Baltic Sea coast, a local newspaper said Wednesday.

The chilly relations between Russia and Estonia showed no signs of thawing Wednesday after the first high-level meeting between the two countries following a bitter dispute over a Soviet monument in the Estonian capital.

A David Beckham-inspired England eased the pressure on manager Steve McClaren this morning with a comfortable 3-0 victory over Estonia in their Euro 2008 qualifier in Tallinn.

The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution supporting Estonia amid tension with Russia since the removal in April of a monument commemorating a Red Army victory in World War II.

Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves says the "principled selective isolation" of Russia should be an option for dealing with Russian actions that threaten democracy.