Skip to content
November 7, 2025
  • Baltic: Estonia ranks highest on Global Innovation Index in 2025
  • Lithuania: Coalition MPs propose recognising Palestine
  • Latvia: Riga link part of Rail Baltica’s second phase: CEO
  • Estonia: Annual inflation 5.2% in September 2025: statistics

Via Baltica

Read Less, Know More.

Newsletter
  • Home
  • Baltic
  • Estonia
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • About
  • Contact
Headlines
  • Read Less, Know More

    July 1, 2023October 1, 2025
  • Baltic: Estonia ranks highest on Global Innovation Index in 2025

    October 7, 2025
  • Lithuania: Coalition MPs propose recognising Palestine

    October 7, 2025
  • Latvia: Riga link part of Rail Baltica’s second phase: CEO

    October 7, 2025
  • Estonia: Annual inflation 5.2% in September 2025: statistics

    October 7, 2025
  • Baltic: Baltic Assembly announces arts, literature, science prizes

    October 6, 2025
  • Lithuania: Foreign service workers will need to speak Lithuanian

    October 6, 2025October 7, 2025
  • Home
  • Email

Email

  • Estonia
  • Society

Estonia: Internet use increasing among elderly: survey

Via BalticaOctober 3, 202501 mins mins

Altogether 564,800 households in Estonia, which is 95% of all households, now have internet access, which is 20,000 more than in 2024, according to Statistics Estonia’s survey, Estonian World reports. The survey shows that almost 100% of people aged 16-54 years use the internet. Also, internet use has increased markedly among the elderly as people…

Read More
  • Estonia
  • Society

Estonia: 93% of households use internet: statistics

Via BalticaSeptember 16, 2024September 16, 202401 mins mins

A total of 544,800 households in Estonia, or 92.9% of all households, have used the internet in 2024, according to data from Statistics Estonia, ERR reports. The most common services used on the internet are online banking (90.4%) and email (89.7%). Another 88% of people use the internet to look for information about products or…

Read More
  • Baltic
  • Lithuania
  • Security

Lithuania: Schools in Vilnius receive bomb threats in Russian

Via BalticaSeptember 2, 202401 mins mins

Schools in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, have received multiple bomb threats in Russian at the start of the new school year on 2 September 2024, BNS reports. Police have so far received 26 reports of such threats sent to schools by email. None of the threats have proved to be real. Hundreds of bomb threats…

Read More
  • Latvia
  • Security

Latvia: Schools receive over 200 bomb threats in Russian

Via BalticaSeptember 2, 2024September 2, 202401 mins mins

Schools in Latvia received bomb threats in Russian at the start of the new school year on 2 September 2024, LETA reports, citing TV3. Armands Ruks, chief of the State Police of Latvia, said that more than 200 emails with bomb threats were sent. He said that schools in all counties received such messages. While…

Read More

Categories

Baltic Blog Business Economy Estonia Latvia Lithuania Politics Security Society

Tags

Baltic Belarus BNN BNS Budget Business Data Defence Diplomacy Economy Energy ERR Estonia EU Foreign Minister Foreign policy Gitanas Nauseda Government Investments Latvia Legislation LETA Lithuania LRT LSM Military NATO Parliament Parties Politics President Prices Prime Minister Regulation Riga Russia Security Society Statistics Taxation The Baltic Times Transport Ukraine Vilnius War

Archive

  • October 2025
  • July 2025
  • April 2025
  • March 2025
  • February 2025
  • January 2025
  • December 2024
  • October 2024
  • September 2024
  • July 2024
  • June 2024
  • May 2024
  • March 2024
  • February 2024
  • January 2024
  • November 2023
  • October 2023
  • September 2023
  • August 2023
  • July 2023

About

Via Baltica publishes daily text summaries of top news stories from the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

Contact

We welcome any feedback from readers, preferably using the contact form on our website. Thank you.

Social

  • Bluesky
  • Facebook
  • Mastodon
  • Threads
  • Copyright

    © Via Baltica (2023). Powered by WordPress and NewsMatic.