Backgrounder: The Evolution of Cyber Warfare
Council on Foreign Relations
Author: Greg Bruno, Staff Writer
February 27, 2008
Introduction
In the spring of 2007, when Estonian authorities removed a monument to the Red Army from its capital city, Tallinn, a diplomatic row erupted with neighboring Russia. Estonian nationalists regard the army as occupiers and oppressors, a sentiment that dates to the long period of Soviet rule following the Second World War, when the Soviet Union absorbed all three Baltic states. Ethnic Russians, who make up about a quarter of Estonia’s 1.3 million people, were nonetheless incensed by the statue’s treatment and took to the streets in protest. Estonia later blamed Moscow for orchestrating the unrest; order was restored only after U.S. and European diplomatic interventions. But the story of the “Bronze Statue” did not end there…
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