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From 28 March, the refugee centre at Niine 2 in Tallinn will be closed at weekends and will be operating on weekdays from 8-17.

The Tallinn City Government has allocated €39 000 from its reserve fund to the Tallinn Culture and Sports Department to recognise to support athletes from Tallinn and their coaches who performed successfully at the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. Today, 24 March at 14:00, Mayor Mihhail Kõlvart will acknowledge and congratulate the Olympic athletes and their coaches at a formal ceremony in the Town Hall.

Organised for the first time, the free bulky waste collection week resulted in ten times as much bulky waste collected at Tallinn's waste collection stations than during the usual week in March. A total of 1 472 cubic metres of bulky waste was collected at the stations during the week, up from 125 cubic metres a week earlier.

Today, Tallinn Mayor Mihhail Kõlvart and Reykjavik Mayor Dagur B. Eggertsson met in Tallinn to discuss possibilities for jointly alleviating the crisis caused by the war in Ukraine, as well as ways to help Ukraine and the people fleeing from the war.

Today, 22 March, at 12 noon, the Tallinn Social Work Centre opened the exhibition "My Bear" in the service bureau of the Tallinn City Office (Vabaduse väljak 7), featuring the joint creations of the Centre's clients and staff.

A system of free distribution of clothes and other necessary items to Ukrainian war refugees was launched today in cooperation between the city and the Reuse Centre in Lasnamäe Uuskasuteskeskus shop at Punane Street 50. To receive the items free of charge, a war refugee needs to validate the Tallinn smartcard at the shop's cash desk together with an identity document.

As of 4 pm yesterday, 10,026 Ukrainian war refugees, 42% of whom are minors, have been registered at the Tallinn reception centre opened on 2 March at Niine Street.

From 4 April, a free online Estonian language course "Learn and speak with me" will be launched by Multikey Online School with the support of the City of Tallinn.

With the arrival of spring, this year's season at Tallinn's ice skating rinks are coming to an end, only to start again at the beginning of next winter. By the end of the season, the city's ice rinks will have been visited around 110 000 times.

During the snowiest winter in a decade, nearly 595,200 cubic metres or 39,680 truckloads of snow were removed from Tallinn. The city spent a total of nearly €4.3 million to remove snow from roads and streets in the 2021/22 season.