Toomas Hendrik Ilves is the new President of Estonia.
He took 174 of the 345 possible votes in the electoral college.
The incumbent, Moscow-leaning Arnold Rüütel, gained only 162 votes.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves is the first Estonian president not to know Russian. An Estonian-American, he will take Estonia further towards the European Union, of which the country is already a member, and also in an Atlanticist direction.
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