In the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse, the semantic and legal terms of Estonia's emergence as an independent state were dictated by what scholars have called the “restoration doctrine.” This doctrine held that Estonia was not a newly independent state, but a restored version of the same republic that was founded in 1918. The highly politicized “restorationist geopolitics” that followed had profound effects on Estonian statecraft and policy in the early 1990s. Recently, Estonia announced plans to store backups of key information systems in “data embassies,” or computer servers, outside of Estonian territory; one goal of the initiative is to ensure that in the event Estonia is reoccupied and then later liberated, it will be possible to easily retrieve and restore the state's legitimate “unoccupied” data and information systems. In this article, I draw on participant‐observation and interviews with the team that is building Estonia's data embassies. I argue that this initiative is an attempt to codify and materialize the restoration doctrine in software, code, and policy planning, thereby ensuring that the termination of any future occupation brings not independence but (re‐)independence, and not only liberation but also restoration.

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重新启动恢复主义：在爱沙尼亚数据使馆计划中编纂连续性

苏联解体后，爱沙尼亚成为独立国家的语义和法律术语是由学者称之为“恢复主义”的。该学说认为，爱沙尼亚不是一个新独立的国家，而是1918年建立的那个共和国的恢复版本。随后高度政治化的“恢复主义地缘政治”对爱沙尼亚的治国之道和政策产生了深远的影响。最近，爱沙尼亚宣布了计划将关键信息系统的备份存储在爱沙尼亚领土以外的“数据使馆”或计算机服务器中；该计划的目标之一是确保在爱沙尼亚被重新占领后再解放时，可以轻松地检索和恢复该州合法的“未占用”数据和信息系统。在本文中，我将利用参与者观察和对建立爱沙尼亚数据使馆的团队的采访。我认为，这一举措是为了在软件，代码和策略规划中将恢复原则编成法律和具体化，从而确保终止任何未来的职业不仅带来独立，而且带来（重新）独立，不仅带来解放，而且带来恢复。