Estonians are voting Sunday in a national parliamentary election.
The coalition government of Prime Minister Taavi Roivas is expected to win as the Baltic state, a member of the West’s NATO military alliance that was once part of the Soviet Union, contends with a militarily resurgent Russia and a pro-Kremlin opposition party.
By mid-day, 42 percent of the nearly one million Estonian voters had cast ballots, including 176,000 who had voted online.
Roivas has voiced fears about Russian interference in Estonia after its annexation last year of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula. He has called for more NATO troops and hardware to monitor Russian military …read more
Source: Voice of America
