AFP, Tallinn :
Estonians went to the polls on Sunday in legislative elections with voters in the Baltic concerned about security in the face of their powerful neighbour Russia’s military resurgence.
Polls opened at 0700 GMT and were set to close at 1800 GMT. A third of voters have already cast their ballots via the Internet.
Moscow’s annexation of Crimea last year and its meddling in eastern Ukraine have raised fears in this country of 1.3 million people, a quarter of whom are ethnic Russian.
Military manoeuvres by Moscow on Estonia’s border days ahead of the vote further stoked deep concerns in Europe that the Kremlin could attempt to destabilise countries that were in its orbit during Soviet times.
Opinion polls show the pro-Kremlin Centre party leading with 27 percent support ahead of Prime Minister Taavi Roivas’s centre-right Reform with 22 percent and its Social Democrat coalition partners with 18 percent.
Estonians went to the polls on Sunday in legislative elections with voters in the Baltic concerned about security in the face of their powerful neighbour Russia’s military resurgence.
Polls opened at 0700 GMT and were set to close at 1800 GMT. A third of voters have already cast their ballots via the Internet.
Moscow’s annexation of Crimea last year and its meddling in eastern Ukraine have raised fears in this country of 1.3 million people, a quarter of whom are ethnic Russian.
Military manoeuvres by Moscow on Estonia’s border days ahead of the vote further stoked deep concerns in Europe that the Kremlin could attempt to destabilise countries that were in its orbit during Soviet times.
Opinion polls show the pro-Kremlin Centre party leading with 27 percent support ahead of Prime Minister Taavi Roivas’s centre-right Reform with 22 percent and its Social Democrat coalition partners with 18 percent.
