International rating agency Fitch has affirmed Tallinn's long-term credit rating at its current high level of AA-, but revised the rating outlook to negative.
The website of Tallinn’s Education Office offers an opportunity to explore an online catalogue of recreational activities, providing information on extracurricular activities in Estonian and Russian for schoolchildren and youngsters.
A week ago, the official beach season ended at five public beaches in Tallinn, and 38 G4S beach guards, who ensured safety and order during the summer, also finished their work. This year’s season passed calmly and without major problems.
Visiting the European Basketball Championship in Milan, Tallinn Mayor Mihhail Kõlvart met with Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala to discuss cooperation on environmental issues and the growing role of cities in crisis management.
From today, after a temporary pause in the home doctor service during the summer months, it is once again possible to call a doctor to tend to a sick child in Tallinn over the weekend.
Tallinn has achieved the 10th place in the Innovation Cities: Small 200 Index, which evaluates the innovativeness of cities with fewer than one million residents. The city has made a significant leap in rankings, climbing 77 places compared to 2018. This improvement is attributed to the city's comprehensive digitalization efforts.
Mayor Mihhail Kõlvart met today with Elisa Ferreira, the European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms, where they discussed the impact of European Union funding on the City of Tallinn and regional development as a whole.
Tallinn plans to collaborate with the private sector to construct an Olympic-sized swimming pool in Lasnamäe at the Kuukivi 3 and 5 (formerly Varraku 14a and 14b) properties. In 2019, Tondiraba Ujula OÜ, the winner of the state procurement that year, informed the city in late August that they would be unable to complete the construction of the pool within the agreed-upon time and conditions due to a substantial increase in construction costs. Since the construction project has already been made and all that is missing are the construction procurements, the city has decided to terminate the existing contract and plans to start a new procurement process.