Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're all glad Joe Lieberman went down last night. But many many kilometers away in the small, northern European country of Estonia another election is about to get underway - the Estonian Presidential Election.
While Estonia - south of Finland, north of Latvia, population 1.3 million - is not exactly on everyone's tongues this morning, it has traditionally been, like its Finnish neighbor, in the ambiguous zone where the West and the East meet to drink vodka and talk spheres of influence.
One of the strongest voices to emerge from the mess of the Soviet collapse was Estonia's first post-occupation president, Lennart Meri. Meri's voice changed minds about East Europe in Stockholm, and Berlin, in London, Paris, Washington, and even Moscow.
More recently, Vaira Vike Freiberga, the president of Estonia's neighbor Latvia, has assumed a similar role. Her name was thrown around as a potential UN secretary general at one point, and NATO will meet this November in Riga.
It is therefore in everyone's interest to learn a little bit more about the events in this small country over the coming weeks.
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