Estonia gets two new national flag days

A bill to add two new flag days to the existing total, both of them marking Estonia's cultural heritage, has been sent to the Riigikogu, after obtaining cabinet approval.

The Estonian Flag Act requires state agencies and local government, as well as legal persons under the understanding of public law, to display the blue-black-white on a flagpole on such days, while private citizens also often do the same.

The two new flag days fall on January 30, which will be Estonian literature day, and the quinquennial national song and dance festival (Laulu-ja tantsupidu) as well as its youth equivalents (Noorte laulu- ja tantsupidu).

The next national Laulupidu is in 2024.

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