UPDATE FROM MAY 17. The first round has apparently ended - many Tallinn marauders have been identified (see http://tuvasta.politsei.ee) , the Moscow blockade ended after interference by EU and NATO. The DDOS from networks however goes on, although a bit in a weakened state. Currently most official sources have been reachable from abroad, therefore this blog goes to the "orange state" with only the most important related news copied here.
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The purpose of this blog is to publish/mirror Estonian governmental and other information - this post here is the only one with personal opinion, others are copy-pasted from official sources (showing the original location).
In the early morning of April 26, 2007, the Estonian authorities moved the Bronze Soldier, an infamous Soviet memorial, from its previous place in Tallinn city centre to the War Cemetery somewhat outside the centre. The event was served by many (especially Russian media) as a major act of disrespect towards Russian soldiers. In fact, it was just a lighter. Had it not happened, the Russian propaganda machine would surely have invented another 'act of disrespect'. Especially as they removed a similar monument in Russia a week earlier without giving a say to anyone.
During the following week, Russians, not content with ravaging Tallinn city centre (using the dirty hands of their misguided countrymen), blockading the Estonian Embassy in Moscow and physically assaulting the Ambassador, also launched wide-scale DDOS attacks against Estonian servers (many directly from Russian government IPs). A number of Estonian government sites were from time to time unreachable - sites like this one were then created to prevent the rest of the world from succumbing to Russian blatant propaganda.
By the way - how come that the Russians have got those immense networks of conquered bot machines so handy for such a spontaneous act...? Here is the lesson to be learned.
