Foreign Ministry Summons Russian Ambassador

The Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Estonia, Aleksander Petrov, on May 6 to protest and hand over a diplomatic note concerning a violation of the Estonian air border on May 5, when a Russian Federation plane passed through Estonian airspace.

The plane, an Ilyushin Il-96 airliner, was in Estonian airspace for around a minute.

Russian military overflights in the Gulf of Finland often fly close to, or as in this case, inside Estonian airspace.

From Estonia's point of view, this is a very unfortunate and serious incident, which has occurred repeatedly, and is by no means acceptable.

NATO air policing in Estonia is conducted from Ämari, west of Tallinn; the role is now in the hands of the Italian Air Force and their Lockheed Martin Lightning-II stealth fighters.

Rights to Estonian Filmmaker's Documentary Sold to the U.S. and Canada

Gravitas Ventures has acquired all rights in the U.S. and Canada for “The Body Fights Back,” director Marian Võsumets’ documentary about the paradoxes of diet culture, Variety magazine reports.

"The Body Fights Back" is an independent documentary that exposes the ways in which we’re conditioned to think about food and bodies. It follows five people navigating the paradoxes of diet culture.

The film's website is dietculturefilm.com

Estonian Manufacturer of Electric Bicycles Opens Store in Tallinn

Estonian manufacturer of electric bicycles Ampler Bikes has opened its store in Tallinn.

This year it plans to also open stores in Switzerland and Holland.

There are more than 10,000 Ampler electric bikes in Europe and 80 percent of the company's sales occur in Germany, where there are two Ampler stores.

The company was founded by three Estonians in 2014.

The current factory near Tallinn was opened in November 2019 and employs 87 people.