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to Estonia in the 1950s and 1960s to work in now-defunct factories in Tallinn
andthenortheasterncities.Twenty-fivepercentofEstonia'spopulationisnow
ethnically Russian. Making Russians feel at home in Estonia while building a
distinctly Estonian culture andidentity isoneofindependent Estonia'sbiggest
challenges. In 2007, Tallinn made international headlines when it controver-
sially relocated a giant “Liberation Monument” depicting a WWII-era Russi-
an soldier (as well as actual remains of Soviet soldiers) from the city center
to a cemetery on the outskirts of town. This sparked protests in both Tallinn
and Moscow. In retaliation, Estonia suffered a flurry of cyber attacks in which
many of its governmental, political, and business websites were crippled.
Many of the attacks originated within Russia, leading some to allege that the
Kremlin was waging “cyber war.” Since then, Estonia has taken an interna-
tional leadership role in Internet security.
