REPORT The Bronze Soldier Crisis of 2007 Revisiting an early case of hybrid Conflict August 2020 Ivo Juurvee Mariita Mattiisen Title: The Bronze Soldier Crisis of 2007: Revisiting an Early Case of Hybrid Conflict Authors: Juurvee, Ivo; Mattiisen, Mariita Publication date: August 2020 Category: Report Cover page photo: A street looter in Tallinn, during the protests on 26 April 2007 (photo credit: Liis Treimann / Scanpix) Keywords: crisis, coercion, cyber attacks, hybrid threats, internal security, hostile propaganda, resilience, riots, sanctions, Estonia, Russia Disclaimer: The views and opinions contained in this report are those of its author(s) only and do not necessarily represent the official policy or position of the International Centre for Defence and Security or any other organisation ISSN 2228-0529 ISBN 978-9949-7484-2-6 (print) 978-9949-7484-3-3 (pdf) ©International Centre for Defence and Security 63/4 Narva Rd., 10152 Tallinn, Estonia
[email protected], www.icds.ee The Bronze Soldier Crisis I Acknowledgments The authors wish to thank all interviewees both on and off the record, the state institutions of Estonia and foreign embassies for sharing materials at their disposal, and Baltic News Service, BBC Monitoring Service and the EU Mission to Moscow for their cooperation. We thank the Open Information Partnership for its valuable support. About the authors Dr Ivo Juurvee Dr Ivo Juurvee has been head of the Security and Resilience Programme at the ICDS since 2017. He was previously a practitioner in the field of security for more than 13 years, including as an adviser to the National Security and Defence Coordination Unit of the Estonian Government Office and head of the Internal Security Institute of the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences.