Russia seizes one of TalTech's smart wave buoys, exposes gaps in research security

Russia removed TalTech’s smart wave buoy from Estonia’s economic zone – without a single obstacle; the incident raises a pressing question: does Estonia truly have sufficient situational awareness in the Baltic Sea, and the capacity to respond swiftly?When a smart wave buoy, deployed near Hiiumaa by TalTech’s Department of Marine Systems, began behaving erratically in late April, it soon became clear that neither a storm nor a technical fault was to blame.