Estonian - Politician | December 26, 1953 -
In Russia, tweeting or sharing real news that's embarrassing to the regime can land you in prison. Imagine, then, the response of the regime to 'fake news' that's damaging to the Kremlin.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
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The Russian Federation's practice of instant citizenship, whereby Russian passports are distributed willy-nilly to ethnic Russians abroad so they can be 'protected' in their current homeland, is unacceptable. Passports are travel documents, not a tool to justify aggression.
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Nothing costs more than the loss of freedom.
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The minute a collective alliance fails to live up to its agreement to collective defence, then from that moment on, everybody is on the run.
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In cyberwarfare, it is much harder to identify the attacker and, therefore, to know how to retaliate.
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In a modern digitalized world, it is possible to paralyze a country without attacking its defense forces: The country can be ruined by simply bringing its SCADA systems to a halt. To impoverish a country, one can erase its banking records. The most sophisticated military technology can be rendered irrelevant. In cyberspace, no country is an island.
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The domestic policy of any president, U.S. or otherwise, is his or her own concern, as long as democratic norms are followed.
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Everything can be known and, in some cases, everything is known.
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The rights that people have offline must also be protected online.
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Since I've been writing about things my entire life, I thought, 'Well, that's what I would do as a president is to read and then write and talk about things that are interesting to me.'
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There was a period in my life when I was very young that I wrote a sonnet a day just to learn concision in writing.
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People have actually figured out that Estonia is one of the few post-Communist countries that has a genuine image in people's minds as being something.
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