Possible visit of Estonian leader to Russia will be private -diplomat
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The possible visit of Estonian President Arnold Ruutel to Russia will be purely private, a source with the Russian Foreign Ministry told Interfax.
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Nato's secretary general will meet top officials in Russia, at a time of strained relations between the two sides.
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Â·President was expected to turn down offer of post Â·Plan to 'continue our joint work' with Medvedev
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Russia's current president will attend a Nato summit in Bucharest in April, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says.
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President Bush is the first US head of state to visit Estonia, ahead of a Nato summit in Latvia.
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BiH Foreign Affairs Minister Mladen Ivanic and Estonian Foreign Affairs Minister Kristina Ojuland discussed in Talin today the current political situation in both countries, the situation in the Balkans and ...
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TALLINN : The frosty relations between Estonia and Russia thawed slightly this week when Russian Patriarch Alexius II organised a path-breaking meeting between Estonian President Arnold Ruutel and his Russian ...
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(InfoWorld) - Two months after much of Estonia's online infrastructure wasÂ targeted by an online attack, the U.S government is sending cyberinvestigators to help the Baltic state better understand what happened. A representative from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's US-CERT (U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team) division is heading to Estonia this week to help analyze the large volume of data that was generated by the attacks, said Gregory Garcia, assistant secretary for cyber security and telecommunications with the DHS. "We are sending someone from our organization ... to help them with forensic analysis and to do some additional training on how to secure their infrastructure," he said. Additionally, a member of the U.S. Secret Service will be there to help with training on incident response and computer crime investigations, according to a DHS spokesman. In April, a widespread DDOS attack struck Estonia and affected government and banking Web sites. Early press reports linked the attacks to Russia, exacerbating tensions between the two countries, but investigators now say thatÂ it is unclear who exactly was behind the incident. "The data that we have does not speak to who's behind it. There's no smoking gun," said Jose Nazario, senior security engineer with Arbor Networks, who has studied the attacks. Unlike other Internet conflicts, the Estonian attacks do not seem to have been backed by a particular hacking group, said Gadi Evron, a security evangelist with Beyond Security. "They were of immense variety [and came] from the population of the Russian-speaking blogosphere," he said. Some attackers ran simple scripts on their PCs, while others trained sophisticated groups of botnet computers at the Estonian systems, Evron said. "Many of the attacks were from fake sources and compromised computers around the world," he added. During the incident, several international organizations helped the tiny country repel the online attacks, Garcia said. "This was -- at least in the aftermath -- a good news story in the sense that Estonia looked to NATO for assistance and together the NATO countries came to the aid of Estonia," Garcia said. "It showed that the relationships we have internationally and across the federal government are paying off so we can respond in real time to attacks that are happening." Garcia said that members of US-CERT could learn how the U.S. should respond if faced with a similar attack. "It's a little bit more complicated than conventional warfare," he said. "It's a little difficult to trace back where a particular attack is coming from, which makes it more difficult to respond." Arbor Networks' Nazario agreed that investigators will get a much clearer picture of how the attacks evolved over time. "They can basically learn what ... technologies and what techniques worked under those attacks," he said.
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Estonia will tighten security at its borders ahead of a visit to the Baltic state and its neighbours of Queen Elizabeth II, the interior ministry has said.
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Voters were going to the polls in Estonia to elect a new parliament, the Deutsche Welle reported.Comment
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Vladimir Putin and the Pope spent 25 minutes in private talks Italy's Prime Minister, Romano Prodi, is expected to finalise a major energy deal with Russia at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin.Comment
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Solana: Finland has important role in EU relations with Russia The foreign affairs envoy of the European Union, Javier Solana, says that Finland's experiences as a country bordering on Russia are important for ...
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THE HAGUE, November 16. (RIA Novosti s Andrei Poskakukhin) - I am positive that the Russia-EU summit due in the Hague on November 25th will be very constructive, said Bernard Bot, foreign minister of the ...
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Russia, the world&#39;s second-biggest oil exporter, next month will increase northern Baltic port loadings on expectations winter storms in the Black Sea and traffic in the Bosporus
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The government of Estonia has rejected an application from a Gazprom-backed pipeline project to survey the seabed off its coast. The decision is likely to delay plans to pipe Russian gas directly to Germany.  Estonia's Prime Minister Andrus Ansip cited "national issues" as the reason.
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In the course of his visit, Vladimir Putin will meet Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma.
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MOSCOW, February 15 (RIA Novosti). Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is meeting with his Romanian counterpart Mihai Razvan Ungureanu on Tuesday, according to the Romanian Embassy to Moscow.