Press Digest, Tuesday, February 12
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POSTIMEES:
Extraordinary transplant saves a life
High voltage destroyed one third of living tissue on a 30 year old man’s head, leaving the skull unprotected. Three weeks ago, the first transplantation was performed in Estonia, in Hospital of Reconstructive Surgery,on a skull with extensive and deeply burnt skull, for which intestine-covering fatty tissue (omentum) was extracted from abdominal cavity.
Squirrels come to supermarkets as reform party takes 'American' approach
Eager to ditch its perceived image as out of touch and keep poll numbers from dropping further, the Reform Party is taking its message to supermarkets in a quest for 50,000 non-member supporters by 2015.
The party's latest board meeting focused on how to become more open and increase popularity among people who are sympathetic to their liberal-market, pro-business views but do not hold party membership, Postimees reported.
Tallinn gets four thousand new citizens in a single month.
The number of Tallinn's citizens has grown by 4,226 people over the first five weeks of the year, which is more than during the whole of 2012. Counties that lost the most people to the capital were Harju and Ida-Viru. Heads of local governments say that in a situation where they do not have enough jobs and where Tallinn offers free public transport, there is little municipalities can do to stop people leaving. Minister of Regional Affairs Siim Kiisler said that if those four thousand people have actually moved to the capital, then there is no problem. "However if people start lying about their place of residence in order to receive certain bonuses, things are bad," the minister said. Kiisler gave an example where Tallinn's education officials recently said that they cannot find children they are supposed to send to school because they do not actually live in Tallinn.
Support for local government mergers goes up.
The Riigikogu Rural Affairs Committee approved a bill yesterday to boost support volumes for local government units born out of mergers. According to the bill, the support will go from the current 40 euros per resident to 50 euros while the minimum support amount will be 150,000 euros and the maximum 400,000 euros. The amendment was proposed by the coalition.
Ilya Repin in changing times
The Kadriorg Art Museum, housed in the newly renovated Kadriorg Palace, kicks off with exhibition of one of the great Russian classics, Ilya Repin, coming to us from the Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki.