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Article: Pushback for Mr. Putin; European leaders deliver a necessary rebuke to Moscow.
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 20, 2007
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FOR THE past three weeks, Estonia, a small European country that
is a member of both NATO and the European Union, has been under
assault from neighboring Russia. The offensive is of a new kind:
cyber-warfare. Computers serving Estonian government ministries,
banks, schools and media have been vandalized via the Internet. Some
of the attacks have been traced to Russian government servers,
including that of the president's office in the Kremlin. For a
country that depends heavily on electronic commerce, the threat has
been very serious; the Estonian Defense Ministry has asked for and
received help from NATO's fledgling cyber-warfare unit.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been betting ...