tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424353162048226766Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:11:46 +0000"We are under real, psychological and virtual attack from Russia." Statement by the Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet. May 1st, 2007.http://prygi.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Estonia in World Media (Rus))Blogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424353162048226766.post-4315608256885160690Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:02:00 +00002008-03-02T06:04:27.007-08:00 Julia Latynina (Wiki), the leading opposition opinion-writer (after Ms Politkovskaya, assassinated) published a piece about the results of pro-Kremlin movement's Nashi anti-Estonian campaign (http://www.gazeta.ru/):"Разновидность Новости Без Продолжения - осада эстонского посольства "Нашими". Нам показали очень увлекательный мини-сериал на тему: "Как "Наши" победили Эстонию". Съемки закончились,http://prygi.blogspot.com/2008/02/latynina-estonia-taught-russia-lesson.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Estonia in World Media (Rus))1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424353162048226766.post-1431113322527713795Sun, 17 Feb 2008 06:37:00 +00002008-02-16T22:45:28.837-08:00Google video of a British TV reporter traveling to Mordor Russia, telling a sad story about the end of the former empire.Regards to La Russophobe.http://prygi.blogspot.com/2008/02/death-of-nation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Estonia in World Media (Rus))2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424353162048226766.post-6356475560651321240Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:12:00 +00002008-02-08T06:00:18.947-08:00Surprising, but true, the Russian militarists seeing a sign of weakness in the reaction of NATO to the cyber threat are coming closer to actually claiming responsibility for April and May Cyber Assault on Estonia. Even more, one of them is threatening NATO with such cyber attack inflicting "enormous losses" on the West.According to one of the major Russian news outlets, Gazeta, which is http://prygi.blogspot.com/2008/02/russian-army-analyst-to-world-you-are.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Estonia in World Media (Rus))0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424353162048226766.post-1527616954790536162Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:33:00 +00002008-02-07T12:33:40.745-08:00http://prygi.blogspot.com/2008/02/afp-video-on-estonias-e-services.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Estonia in World Media (Rus))0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424353162048226766.post-1721919664498927409Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:02:00 +00002008-02-04T04:10:40.397-08:00by Ivan vs Jaan(first appeared in La Russophobe)<?xml:namespace prefix = o />“I don't reproach the Russians for being what they are; what I blame them for is their desire to appear to be what we are. They are much less interested in being civilized than in making us believe them so. They would be quite content to be in effect more awful and barbaric then they actually are, if only others could http://prygi.blogspot.com/2008/02/russia-guide-for-cautious-traveler.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Estonia in World Media (Rus))1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424353162048226766.post-2487798476942428919Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:44:00 +00002008-02-02T07:18:15.205-08:00See Jim Tusty, director of the film explaining the story of Estonian struggle for independence, here:REASON TVAlso, in a separate video Mart Laar is speaking about history of Estonia.http://prygi.blogspot.com/2008/02/documentary-singing-revolution.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Estonia in World Media (Rus))1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424353162048226766.post-8556469449839743098Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:57:00 +00002008-02-01T13:02:35.217-08:00La Russophobe:We are especially proud to publish entry #1 above, a meticulously researched and sparklingly well-written essay from a blogger/reader with penetrating insights about real life in Russia. IVAN vs JAAN's Travel Guide To RussiaThe Sunday Travel SectionObligatory reading for those interested in getting a sense of the atmosphere in the Russian society.http://prygi.blogspot.com/2008/02/in-cooperation-with-la-russophobe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Estonia in World Media (Rus))1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424353162048226766.post-3351836247324161486Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:44:00 +00002008-02-01T03:12:59.051-08:00From the Russian press:Russian military admits developing information warfare arsenalAccording to Vedomosti:"Первый заместитель начальника Генштаба ВС РФ генерал Алексей Бурутин на заседании Национального форума информационной безопасности сообщил, что Россия приступила к разработке «информационного оружия»"."First assistant chief of the Russian Armed Forces High Command general Aleksey Burutin (http://prygi.blogspot.com/2008/01/breaking-news-russia-reveals-cyber-wars.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Estonia in World Media (Rus))1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424353162048226766.post-7596901420633660702Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:18:00 +00002008-01-31T11:20:55.099-08:00The threat of cyber attacks is promoted as political conspiracy tool?Russian news portal Rosbalt, which is managed by the wife of a top ranking FSB official and close associate of "you know who", Victor Cherkesov, published an interesting opinion about the events of April and May in Estonia, including the famous cyber attacks (emphasize added):"Случаи массовых D-dos-атак и ранее неоднократно http://prygi.blogspot.com/2008/01/rosbalt-russian-political-hacktivism.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Estonia in World Media (Rus))0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424353162048226766.post-8167572405037892847Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:41:00 +00002008-01-29T13:48:45.848-08:00Picture by a Russian blogger.From today's Russian news it seems that pro-Kremlin movement "Nashi", which gained notoriety mainly for the siege of the Estonian Embassy and participated in the organization of April 2007 mass riots in Tallinn, faces disbandment. Newsru.com and Novye Izvestia report about the imminent decline of the organization, served as “restructuring” by its leadership. Accordinghttp://prygi.blogspot.com/2008/01/estonia-crushed-nashism.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Estonia in World Media (Rus))1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424353162048226766.post-698921331304015748Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:19:00 +00002008-01-24T23:12:39.908-08:00Soon after Latvia joined the free travel area known as Schengen at the end of 2007 the country's authorities revealed, with a sigh of relief, existence of a major passports falsification scam, involving significant number of third countries' nationals illegally obtaining Latvian passports.According to the Russian and Baltic press corrupt officials from the Latvian equivalent of the bureau of http://prygi.blogspot.com/2008/01/citizenship-discounts-black-maket-put.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Estonia in World Media (Rus))0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424353162048226766.post-8681776271186037815Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:19:00 +00002008-01-24T22:54:17.967-08:00Russian news portals in the Baltic states, including Delfi make headlines reporting on the newest round of Russia's threats against Estonia, this time by Konstantin Kosatchev, chairman of the State Duma's international affairs committee and a major foreign policy actor in Russia's parliament, speaking at European parliamentary discussion club, PACE.Photo from http://www.blogger.com/http://prygi.blogspot.com/2008/01/joke-of-day-kosachev-wont-let-me-into.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Estonia in World Media (Rus))0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424353162048226766.post-4862627842444636336Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:20:00 +00002008-01-24T06:06:24.726-08:00Reading genuine Russian news daily is a necessary excercise for understanding Russia. Today I felt like posting my readings in this blog.I ran the Russian news section taken from a major online news portal, Newsru.com, through Google autotranslator. Then I edited the text making it more comprehensible. It is far from grammatically perfect, but it is readable. I also included the original text in http://prygi.blogspot.com/2008/01/today-russian-headlines.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Estonia in World Media (Rus))0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424353162048226766.post-9115570455314864320Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:40:00 +00002008-01-25T03:02:59.423-08:00EU accession exposed labor markets of the former Soviet satellite states to the dangers of competition. With enormously better working conditions in Western part of our union, notably in countries like the UK, Ireland and Sweden, which were the first to open up for EU8 workers, and on the other hand with unprecedented ease of movement across borders, countries like Estonia felt the pain of losinghttp://prygi.blogspot.com/2008/01/estonia-is-turning-tide-in-workforce.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Estonia in World Media (Rus))2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424353162048226766.post-776253086445609919Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:42:00 +00002008-01-30T11:48:40.596-08:00Just a month after historic Schengen visa free travel area expansion, Western Europe, in particular Österreich and Deutschland are struggling with a wave of newcomers. Immigrant crowds besiegeing former domain of Charlemagne aren't nationals of the countries, which joined the EU in 2004 big bang enlargement, but largely asylum seekers from war torn Russian North Caucasus republic of Chechnya (seehttp://prygi.blogspot.com/2008/01/crackdown-in-checnya-threatens-european.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Estonia in World Media (Rus))0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424353162048226766.post-6432728663595609714Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:49:00 +00002008-01-18T03:03:24.450-08:00In a blog entry few weeks ago I was able to demonstrate some striking inconsistencies in the coverage of the Baltic states by the British newspaper "The Independent". A correspondent of the paper presented to the readers a construct of half-truths and lies, which relied conveniently on the Russian (Kremlin) point of view. Kremlin point of view is easy to detect as in Russian state propaganda, http://prygi.blogspot.com/2008/01/do-not-trust-british-independent-it-is.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Estonia in World Media (Rus))6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424353162048226766.post-7636382245138004474Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:15:00 +00002008-01-24T05:06:26.894-08:00Today's news title from the webpage of Russian pro-Kremlin youth movement "Nashi":"Free Europe from under Estonian oppression"Once again Estonia is in the headlines across Russia's media space. Hundreds of Nashists (members of fanatical pro-Kremlin "Nashi" youth movement) surrounded the Embassy of the European Union in Moscow, demanding entry into the Schengen member states for their activists, http://prygi.blogspot.com/2008/01/kremlin-movement-exposes-own-hypocricy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Estonia in World Media (Rus))0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424353162048226766.post-238224556717817450Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:11:00 +00002008-01-30T11:41:53.036-08:00Anyone who had a chance to step into the corridors of power such as those of Brussels, or just followed foreign policy in-depth reviews domestically (such as in the last Välismääraja) can tell that Western European fonctionnaires can sometimes be similar to their Kremlin homologues in their sensitivity to the Russian myth of WWII. Yesterday, Lithuania's president Valdas Adamkus broke into that http://prygi.blogspot.com/2008/01/is-lithuanias-adamkus-overdoing-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Estonia in World Media (Rus))0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424353162048226766.post-8950437512512735984Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:28:00 +00002008-01-07T09:52:56.728-08:00Scrolling through the favourite blogs I stumbled upon this entry by a Canadian Estonian "Singing Revolution Box Office receipts", which shows some kind of North American box office records.See the picture (here).The Singing Revolution holds 10th place. At first glance I didn't find it that much interesting, but then I looked at the other titles in the table, like "Juno" (Comedy), 1st place, "I Amhttp://prygi.blogspot.com/2008/01/singing-revolution-one-of-best-films.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Estonia in World Media (Rus))0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424353162048226766.post-232470211062309045Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:53:00 +00002008-01-07T09:48:25.814-08:00During approximately past two years Danske bank, the number one bank in Denmark also active in other markets in Scandinavia has been prophesying financial Doom's Days in the Baltic states. The campaign was lead by its chief analyst Lars Christensen.Months after months we've been hearing from this Danish bank about how Baltic states' economic growth isn't sustainable, how hard the landing is goinghttp://prygi.blogspot.com/2008/01/lars-christensen-you-are-being-laughed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Estonia in World Media (Rus))4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424353162048226766.post-7490761855421414169Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:34:00 +00002008-01-04T13:12:27.101-08:00Konstantin Goloskokov, photo from Jaanus PiirsaluOne of the leaders of Kremlin youth movement "Nashi" Konstantin Goloskokov has been captured by the Lithuanian border guards on the attempt to illegally cross into Lithuania with the goal of infiltrating Estonia, Baltic and Russian media reports, including TASS.A look at Mr Goloskokov's record reveals that he is famous as one of the leading figureshttp://prygi.blogspot.com/2008/01/goloskokov-captured.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Estonia in World Media (Rus))0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424353162048226766.post-2249311898835400687Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:10:00 +00002008-01-03T11:28:32.601-08:00To provide the readers with some official enough Russian perspective I'd like to demonstrate this translated excerpt from an interview with Estonian far left activist, director of youth activities centre "Zdes" ("Here") Igor Ivanov, taken by Kremlin News Agency Regnum (from Ladin "Kingdom"), 31 of Dec, 2007:Regnum: What in your opinion was the most important or significant event of 2007? Why?Igorhttp://prygi.blogspot.com/2008/01/hearing-voices-of-oppressed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Estonia in World Media (Rus))2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424353162048226766.post-5235341448720611017Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:19:00 +00002007-12-28T15:33:01.805-08:00"Vladimir Putin's controversial youth movement is to send a select group of activists to study at British universities - despite its disdain for Britain and its harassment of the British ambassador in Moscow."A bunch of future Cambridge students?(http://www.nashi.su/)A report by the British newspaper Telegraph, which has received attention in the Russian media as well (here an example; here http://prygi.blogspot.com/2007/12/nashi-hate-britain-but-like-british.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Estonia in World Media (Rus))0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424353162048226766.post-4074401362835074359Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:39:00 +00002007-12-27T01:43:52.251-08:00The Trailerhttp://prygi.blogspot.com/2007/12/award-winning-documentary-singing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Estonia in World Media (Rus))0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424353162048226766.post-794785127092061429Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:09:00 +00002007-12-24T01:33:33.857-08:00Kononov's "breaking news" as reported in Russia, later removed from the front and changed.Kononov won the case against LatviaStrasbourg court acquitted KononovRed partisan wonThese are both the breaking news titles in major Russian media outlets (at the moment Yandex news search engine finds 54 Russian news sources reporting it today) as well as a demonstration of their pitiful failure in http://prygi.blogspot.com/2007/12/russian-liers-shot-themselves-in-foot.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Estonia in World Media (Rus))2