We need to engage in a calm and sober debate on whether or not and how Russia threatens us and on the real meaning of its vicinity and our common history to us. Estonia is a quite good place for discussions on foreign policy, I think. (In their own way, one hundred issues of Diplomaatia […]
Kadri Liik: Let us think again. About Russia… Read More »
Estonia hopes to firm its image of an information technology leader after the European Union’s agency that manages large-scale IT systems in home affairs opens in Tallinn this weekend. This article was first published by Wall Street Journal. I One of the tasks of this new agency will be supporting the implementation of the EU’s
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Russia is poised to gain technical superiority over NATO in areas that are crucial to the defence of the Baltic states. Scandinavian defence pundits are a sober bunch. But the latest report by the Swedish Defence Research Agency is a gripping read. Its 115 pages offer the first comprehensive and unclassified look at Europe’s biggest
Edward Lucas: The Baltic states – defending the least defensible? Read More »
Iivi Anna Masso interviewed Carl Bildt for the Estonian magazine Diplomaatia when Bildt took part of Lennart Meri Conference this spring. Full version of the article can be found here. You wrote beautifully in your blog when President Ilves visited Sweden at the beginning of 2011 of how his parents had once come to Sweden as
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The British minister in charge of cyber-security, Mr Francis Maude, thinks that the cyber-attack against Estonia in 2007 was a big wake-up call for the world, adding that a balance should be struck between cyber-security and personal freedoms. This article was first published by the Estonian foreign policy magazine Diplomaatia. Interview by Erkki Bahovski. Estonia fell under
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Estonian World’s founder and editor-in-chief, Silver Tambur, interviews the Economist’s senior editor, Edward Lucas, discussing Estonia’s past, present and future. Edward Lucas is the senior editor of the Economist, the London-based global weekly news magazine, and also oversees the paper’s political coverage of Central and Eastern Europe. He has been covering the region of Europe since 1986,
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