By Months: Eerik-Niiles Kross
Total Months: 8
Fully Profiled: 8
03.2025
1 Speeches
The rhetorical style is analytical, measured, and historically grounded, utilizing parallels from 1992 to contextualize the current debate. The tone is optimistic, describing the change as a "sunrise," and highlights the unifying and surprisingly peaceful character of the process. The speaker favors logical argumentation and historical comparison over emotional appeals.
02.2025
3 Speeches
The rhetorical style is formal, historically rich, and analytical, employing storytelling (such as the computer shutting down in 1994, or Putin’s departure from Hamburg) alongside quotes from Lennart Meri. The tone is predominantly anxious and urgent, highlighting Europe’s failure to act with sufficient speed. The piece concludes, however, by expressing calm optimism regarding Estonia’s preparedness and its increasingly weighty role in this new volatile age.
01.2025
13 Speeches
The rhetorical style is formal, analytical, and serious, underscoring the urgency of the situation and the historical context to prevent repeating past errors in responding to autocracy. The speaker employs both logical arguments (citing international reports) and powerful emotional descriptions (torture, beatings, and a comparison to the titushky from Maidan). Criticism from opponents (whataboutism) is sharply dismissed as mere demagoguery.
11.2024
58 Speeches
The speaker adopts a formal, analytical, and patient style, focusing primarily on logical and legal arguments rather than emotional appeals. They thoroughly explain the historical background and legal nuances of the draft bill, particularly during the question-and-answer session, striving to keep the debate free from partisan politics. The tone is serious, emphasizing the necessity of the change.
09.2024
2 Speeches
The tone of the communication is descriptive, conveying slight frustration or concern regarding the lack of control. The style is simple and straightforward, focusing on a specific operational issue without resorting to emotional or logical appeals.
06.2024
16 Speeches
The tone is formal and analytical, yet simultaneously emotionally charged, expressing regret and pain over the criticism of a friend. It employs metaphors (former political prisoners, furnishing an apartment) and historical comparisons, and stresses that diplomacy has failed, necessitating a counter-escalation ("the worse, the better").
05.2024
1 Speeches
The rhetorical style is analytical, fact-based, and serious, focusing initially on refuting common "misconceptions." The speaker relies heavily on logical arguments and cites programmatic documents to demonstrate the radical nature of the ideology (e.g., "holy war," "Satanism"). The tone is formal, and the objective is to guide the Riigikogu toward a legal and secular assessment.
02.2024
3 Speeches
The rhetorical style is formal and insistent, balancing the emotional weight ("a very emotional topic, a very difficult topic") with strict, fact-based, and legal argumentation. Historical analogies (the March deportations, Ants Laaneots) are used to personalize and intensify the subject matter, aiming to provoke a strong reaction from the audience and underscore the gravity of the issue.