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The impact of the cyber attack on Estonia

June 4, 2007

A Fistful of Euros have interviewed a ‘world expert on botnets’ about the impact of last month’s cyber attacks on Estonia:
The botnet traffic was distributed globally, with some of the botnets being bought. However, many of the attacks were not by a botnet, but rather by a mass of home users using commands such as [...]

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Russian bloggers develop code to block visitors from Estonia

May 22, 2007

An enterprising Russian blogger has developed a piece of code that can be inserted on websites to bar any visitors with an Estonian IP address.
Presumably, he’s done this because of his outrage at recent events in Estonia.
Anyway, the plan was going swimmingly until someone pointed out that the primary ‘victims’ of this piece of code [...]

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Will the EU say to Russia: “Three strikes and you’re out”?

May 3, 2007

By my count, this is the third time in the past five years that Russia has cut off oil supplies to a European Union member state to make a political point.

Russia cut off Latvia’s oil supply in 2003. Purely co-incidentally, this happened at the same time as a Russian takeover bid for the oil port [...]

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Russia stops oil exports to Estonia

May 2, 2007

Someone in the Kremlin clearly has their creative hat on today as, in order to punish Estonia for daring to oppose the mighty Russia, the railway line into Estonia has been mysteriously closed for repairs:
“We haven’t imposed any economic sanctions against Estonia and have no plans to do so. But from May 1, we plan [...]

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In Estonia, the revolution will be televised

May 1, 2007

According to Estonian TV station Channel 2, Russian speaking youths are planning an “uprising” in Estonia on May 9th:
According to the television channel, the youth intend to launch a protest on May 1 and begin a general strike the next day that will turn into a revolt on May 9.
The channel predicted that Estonian authorities [...]

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Latvian interview

May 1, 2007

Pēters Jānis Vecrumba has been interviewed at Marginalia.  Pēters is the co-founder of Latvians.com, one of the “oldest, biggest and best Latvian related sites on the web.”

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Russian ambassador no fan of gays

August 12, 2005

Can you imagine ambassador from the US, or an EU country saying this?  They’d be fired before you could even blink.
Russian Ambassador to Latvia Viktor Kalyuzhny thanked Cardinal Janis Pujats, head of Latvia’s Roman Catholics, for the latter’s criticism of the recent gay and lesbian parade in Riga, the Baltic Times newspaper reports.
The [...]

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Estonia’s Day of Mourning

June 14, 2005

David McDuff notes that today is a national day of mourning in Estonia, marking the 1941 mass deportations to Siberia, and quotes from a factsheet provided by the Estonian government:
On the night of 14 June, families were woken up in the middle of the night, given a few hours to pack, taken to the train [...]

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Latvian, Russian, American or European?

May 22, 2005

Aleks grew up in Latvia, while the Soviet Union was crumbling, then moved to America in the 1990s.  He was never quite sure how he was, until he had an epiphany voting in the most popular European election…
I started this weblog with one purpose in mind: self-discovery. Started on March 5, 2003, this weblog intended [...]

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