Yesterday, the Republic of Estonia celebrated its 96th anniversary. Probably one of the most important parts of the day for the yellow media was what dress someone wears to the reception, but more thoughtful people watched Toomas Hendik Ilves' anniversary speech more closely.

It must be admitted that even though Evelin Ilves looked very good, our president's anniversary speech was one of the best, if not the best, he has done.

Three years ago, the president was criticized in this blog The YouTube channel that opened with a big hurray had been blocked and a year later observed that nothing has been uploaded to the channel for half a year after the New Year's speech.

Today, the situation has improved, but not much better - to the YouTube account of the President of the Republic added videos every few months, last 1, 3 and 5 months ago. At the same time, video footage of the president's head is created every day. To the YouTube account of the President of Latvia have uploaded more than 10 videos in the last 2 weeks.

President the text version of the anniversary speech can be found on a website built for a decent penny, but you have to search for this video from the ERR archive. Since ERR's flash-player does not allow embedding the video (simply), the video is not included in Estonian online news, where the text of the speech is available.

Anniversary speech YouTube!

In his speech, the President talked about the importance of IT education, the video of the speech on YouTube makes it much easier to share on social media and also Estonian online news could easily link to the text of the speech.

YouTube allows you to add subtitles to your video in more than 100 languages. Today's task of the presidential office could be at least in addition to uploading the video adding English and Russian subtitles. 

Although the President of Estonia does not have the same power as the former President of Ukraine, I believe that the video copyright issue If necessary, the Estonian National Broadcasting Company can resolve the issue with one phone call.

Today is the first working day after the anniversary of the Republic. If the call gets uploaded to YouTube later this week, that's fine. Around Midsummer, no one bothers to remember it anymore. At the same time, the strangest thing is that a quick search did not find the president's previous anniversary speeches on his official YouTube channel either...