More and more Russian military men switch to Western military. We’re not just talking about French foreign legion, but also about Estonian army. It turns out that Tallinn touts Russian draftees by giving them freely Estonian citizenship.
More and more Russians try to get no in Russian, but into foreign army. Its’ not a secret that [...]

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If you look at the Google Earth map and follow the route A-212 to the west of the Russian town Pskov, you can notice a secret Russian military base not far from the border with Estonia. The Economist magazine states that to the north of the road you can see an oval that is nothing [...]

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A 20-year-old man named Dmitri Galushkevich is the first cyber solider to face justice for launching one of the attacks in last year’s “cyber war” against Estonia, AFP reports.
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And so it comes as quite a shock to THREAT LEVEL to learn that the attacker convicted today isn’t a member of the Russian military, nor [...]

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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Estonia took advantage of a narrow window of opportunity to radically reform its economy, and these reforms have yielded stunning results. Poverty and inequality are decreasing. Estonia has low unemployment and low inflation, and living standards are improving rapidly. The government’s budget is not only balanced, but also [...]

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While Russian bullying of Estonia is a threat to that country, it is also troubling for Europe and the West in general. Estonia has been supportive of other former Russian puppet states, helping them develop their economies and democratic institutions, which strengthens their ties to the West. This has made them an impediment [...]

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Consider this: A cyberattack targeting Web sites of banks, financial markets, telecom firms, government agencies, newspapers and broadcasters utterly paralyzes the country for days, even weeks, leaving it unable to communicate and wreaking havoc with the normal course of life.
An improbable science-fiction scenario? No, it happened earlier this month to Estonia, a small Baltic nation [...]

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The ongoing diplomatic food fight between Russia and Estonia over the latter’s removal of a Soviet war memorial should be one of those things Americans can safely ignore. But because Washington successfully pressed its NATO allies into admitting Estonia and the other two Baltic republics into the alliance, the U.S. now has a treaty obligation [...]

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MOSCOW // More than a half-dozen types of cheese disappeared from behind deli counters. Small bottles of chili powder, garlic seasoning and lemon pepper - indeed, every spice with the blue Santa Maria label - vanished from supermarket shelves. Old Tallinn liqueur, a sweet staple in a punchy cocktail called the hammer and sickle, [...]

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May 18, 2007: NATO is being called on, by one of its members, to declare Cyber war on Russia. Russia is accused of causing great financial harm to Estonia via Cyber war attacks, and Estonia wants this sort of thing declared terrorism, and dealt with. NATO has agreed to discuss the issue and make a [...]

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· Parliament, ministries, banks, media targeted
· Nato experts sent in to strengthen defences
A three-week wave of massive cyber-attacks on the small Baltic country of Estonia, the first known incidence of such an assault on a state, is causing alarm across the western alliance, with Nato urgently examining the offensive and its implications.
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Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet points the finger very clearly at Russia.
“There are many politicians in Russia who emotionally don’t accept that Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and some other countries are outside Russian influence,” he told the BBC News website.
While he does not blame Russia’s president specifically, he recalls Vladimir Putin’s statement two years ago [...]

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Russia’s ongoing political offensive against Estonia — and implicit challenge to the European Union — constitutes the first serious attempt to reverse the post-1991 status quo in Europe. Moscow seems to be targeting Estonia as a first test case of such a process.
Further Russian challenges to the existing European order are likely to ensue if [...]

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Why should Estonians honor a Red Army that brutalized them and, after driving out the Germans, re-enslaved them for half a century?
Why should this issue be of interest to America?
If President Putin decide the Estonians need a lesson, and sends troops to teach it, the United States, under NATO, would have to treat Russian intervention [...]

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Tensions between Estonia and Russia are placing an added strain on relations between Europe and the Kremlin. The European Union has sharply criticized the Russians’ failure to protect diplomats after the Estonian and Swedish ambassadors came under attack in Moscow.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Deliveries of Russian oil products to Estonia may be disrupted, Russia’s state railway operator said on Wednesday against the backdrop of a furious political row with the Baltic state over a World war Two monument.
Russian state railways said planned maintenance on the railway link could lead to disruption in the delivery of [...]

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The Kremlin’s assault on Estonia is intensifying on four levels of varying sophistication. These include: cyber attacks from within Russia’s Presidential Administration against the Estonian presidency’s and government’s electronic communications; political demands, backed by economic sanctions threats, to change the Estonian government; siege laid by Kremlin-created organizations to the Estonian Embassy in Moscow; and instigatory [...]

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But rather than cowering in silence, the Estonians might have struck upon a rather interesting strategy: Test the waters to see just how real this Russian change of tune is. After all, if it is real, it is best to know soon. And if it is just rhetoric for public consumption, it is best to [...]

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