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The Tallinn City Government has appointed the role of Tallinn City Finance Director to Silver Tamm, former Head of Tallinn City Treasury.

Tallinn Mayor Mihhail Kõlvart is in Helsinki today to meet Mayor Juhana Vartiainen on the issue of twin-city cooperation. The two mayors will sign a new Tallinn-Helsinki Memorandum of Understanding and agree on joint priorities for action.

On Monday 11 April, a school for children of war refugees from Ukraine will be opened in Tallinn. The school, which is a branch of Tallinn Lilleküla Gymnasium, will be located in a building belonging to Tallinn University on Räägu Street.

The upcoming Sunday is International Mothers' Day and to celebrate, people can visit a series of concerts in the open air and in concert halls, as well as workshops and fairs taking place in Tallinn.

The architectural competition for the extension of Tallinna Reaalkool – Tallinn Secondary School of Science – has been won by an Estonian architecture office Molumba with the design R². Construction is scheduled to start in 2024.

The Tallinn City Government is preparing to initiate the establishment of the Astangu-Mäeküla protected area in the Haabersti district. A public presentation of the concept of the conservation area will be held on Tuesday 10 May at 17.30 at the Astangu Vocational Rehabilitation Centre at Astangu 27, where residents are invited to participate and express their ideas.

The organisers of the Birgitta Festival presented the highlights of the festival, which will take place from 6 to 14 August. Mozart's opera "Don Giovanni" and Sibelius's music for the play "Tempest" will be staged in the ruins of Pirita Convent, Finnish productions of "Black Monk" and "Uniko", and a new work, the opera "Lalli", begun by Veljo Tormis and completed by Rasmus Puur.

From Sunday, 1 May, the navigation season on the ferry route between Tallinn and the island of Aegna will start, with the vessel departing from Patarei Harbour from the Linnahall quay and sailing to Aegna in 30 minutes.

Last March, Tallinn introduced the first day sick leave benefit as a measure of limiting the spread of coronavirus and encouraging people with illness symptoms to stay home from work at once. This benefit will be applicable for sick leaves initiated until 31 May 2022.

Tallinn Mayor Mihhail Kõlvart met with the President of the Republic of Cyprus Nikos Anastasiadis, who is visiting Estonia, at Tallinn Town Hall.