Editing History of Estonia (section)

=== Estonia–Russia relations in the late 2000s ===
{{main|Estonia–Russia relations}}
[[File:Vladimir Putin and Kersti Kaljulaid (2019-04-18) 02.jpg|thumb|Estonian President [[Kersti Kaljulaid]] with Russian President [[Vladimir Putin]] in April 2019]]
[[Estonia–Russia relations]] remain tense. According to the [[Estonian Internal Security Service]], [[Russian influence operations in Estonia]] form a complex system of financial, political, economic and espionage activities in the [[Republic of Estonia]] for the purposes of influencing Estonia's political and economic decisions in ways considered favourable to the [[Russian Federation]] and conducted under the sphere-of-influence doctrine known as ''[[near abroad]]''.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}} According to the Centre for Geopolitical Studies, the Russian information campaign, which the centre characterises as a "real mud-throwing" exercise, had provoked a split in Estonian society amongst Russian speakers, inciting some to riot over the relocation of the [[Bronze Soldier of Tallinn]], a [[cenotaph]] commemorating the soldiers killed in [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite web | last=Denisenko | first=Viktor | title=Information War: Invention or a current reality? | url=http://www.geopolitika.lt/?artc=877 | date=13 June 2007 | publisher=Centre for Geopolitical Studies | access-date=2009-08-04 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722150617/http://www.geopolitika.lt/?artc=877 | archive-date=22 July 2011 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Estonia regarded the [[2007 cyberattacks on Estonia]] as an information operation intended to influence the decisions and actions of the Estonian government. While Russia denied any direct involvement in the attacks, hostile rhetoric in the media from the political elite influenced people to attack.<ref>Rain Ottis, ''Analysis of the 2007 Cyber Attacks Against Estonia from the Information Warfare Perpective'', Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Information Warfare, Academic Conferences Limited</ref> Following the 2007 cyber-attacks, the [[NATO]] Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence ([[CCDCOE]]) was established in Tallinn.<ref>{{cite web |title=NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence |url=https://mil.ee/en/landforces/ccdcoe/ |website=Estonian Defence Forces|date=6 July 2023 }}</ref>