Forum Cinemas on the way to monopoly.
Postimees Digest, Thursday, July 18
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Forum Cinemas has announced its intent to buy the Solaris cinema in Tallinn, resulting in virtual monopoly in Tallinn and Estonia. The only competitor is Cinamon, which operates a cinema in Tartu besides theaters in Latvia and Lithuania. However, Latvian-owned new European Cinemas and Polish Multikino are interested in the Estonian market. Forum is also planning a multiplex cinema in Panorama City shopping center in Lasnamäe, while two centers in Ülemiste intend to open cinemas.
Ministry of Justice presented penal code amendments bill.
The bill of amendments to the penal code aims at reducing the number of residents with criminal record and cutting the number of punishable offenses by third. Other changes concern the qualification of bribery, the increase of fines and the abolition of qualifying repeated misdemeanors as crime. The bill amends 163 articles of the penal code, abolishes 48 offenses and adds 11. The bill would reach the government in the autumn and would come in force on January 1, 2015.