A very interesting and thought-provoking article. One additional thought on how Russia may be able to influence Estonian elections is by discouraging overseas voter participation. Some of us have noticed that the overseas voter turnover was not as great as we would have liked. While the Toronto Eesti Elu newspaper was excellent in publishing articles which promoted voter awareness and participation, some Estonian communities in the USA did not advertise the elections.They also did not promote information about voter requirements and have not discussed the March 2011 election results in their local Estonian newsletters either. News sources have quoted Rein Taagepera as saying that he used the mail to vote. He is a long-time member of the Los Angeles Estonian House which is well known not to put much effort into voter participation or discussion of election results. The L.A. Estonian House invited speaker in February for their Estonian Independence Day Event was an aspiring entertainment business person whose claim to fame is her nude portrait on the cover of Playboy magazine. She is too young to have had any memories of Estonian re-Independence and said so. All in all we wouldn't be surprised if voter turnover was worse in Los Angeles than in Toronto. Something that Russia may want to use when thinking about strategies of influence.