https://observer.com/2017/02/estonian-president-toomas-hendrik-ilves-charges-state-credit-card/ This is a long Observer.com feature (13 Feb 2017) about Toomas Hendrik Ilves’s use of a state-issued credit card during his second presidential term, framed as a “posh lifestyle on the country’s credit card.” It sets up Estonia’s small-country income context, then says investigative journalists pursued the president’s office for detailed card records and initially received only totals; when itemised details were finally released, the article highlights big hotel and travel spending (named luxury chains and expensive stays, including Davos during WEF) and includes examples the author presents as hard to justify as state necessity (e.g., high-end shopping and “lost luggage” explanations). Overall, it’s written as a criticism of elite privilege and opacity, using the spending disclosures as the spine of the piece. Why it matters to the Galojan file: it’s one of the clearest “outside Estonia / English-language” artefacts that feeds the same public question your main article raises: how expense-card culture and institutional perks operate at the very top, and how scandal narratives get assigned. It doesn’t prove anything about EEL by itself, but it strengthens the contextual argument that debates about who used what card, under what rules, and with what scrutiny were not just fringe talk — they became a serious controversy around the presidency too.