On Wednesday, the first judgement was passed by a court in Estonia in connection with the Internet attacks related to the moving of the "Bronze Soldier" Soviet war memorial in April of last year.
A 20-year-old Estonian of Russian extraction was fined 17,500 Estonian kroons (over EUR 1,100).
According to the court, the young man was found guilty of sabotage when he attacked the Estonian Reform Party’s website last spring.
Several private and government servers were targeted in the so-called denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, after the Estonian government announced that it would remove a Soviet era statue, the "Bronze Soldier", from the centre of the Estonian capital Tallinn. Relations between the two countries reached very chilly depths and there were widespread street disturbances in Estonia and also at the Estonian Embassy in Moscow.
A number of Finnish servers were also hit by similar Internet attacks at around the same time.
