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Sanctions work over time. They do work, but it takes years for them to have an effect.

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I knew who Bruce Springsteen was before he had his first record.

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That was something that shaped my thinking regarding Estonia: the idea that we should be getting our young people to work with computers.

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When our diplomats go abroad, they are surprised that they can't do the things that they can do here.

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The problem of online identity is expressed best in an old 'New Yorker' cartoon with a picture of a dog next to a computer, and the dog says, 'No one online knows you're a dog.'

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I realised that if we were not in the E.U., there were people in the E.U. who were also members of NATO that would veto our joining NATO.

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In both Russia and the U.S., there are a very small number of very, very rich people, and then there are a lot of people who don't have anything. The less inequality you have in a society, the more social peace you have. It's kind of a no-brainer.

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Democracy is messy, clearly, but it has one key factor, which is an orderly transfer of power.

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Digital warfare, in the Clausewitz definition as 'the continuation of policy by other means,' reached Western public consciousness via my own country, Estonia, in 2007 when our governmental, banking, and news media servers were hit with 'distributed denial-of-service attacks,' which is when hackers overload servers until they shut down.

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In Germany, a country that for obvious reasons is far more attuned than most to the dangers of demagogy, populism, and nationalism, lawmakers have already proposed taking legal measures against fake news. When populist, nationalist fake news threatens the liberal democratic center, other Europeans may follow suit.

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Biography

Nationality: Estonian

Type: Politician

Born: December 26th, 1953

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