&gt; In fact, the stream doesn’t neatly slice the town into two equal parts: it meanders through the city, giving a wide berth to the actual centre. As a result, Estonia got a significantly better deal [...]<p>Kind of nice to hear that some countries have managed to set down borders without violence, even if the results wasn&#x27;t satisfactory. I can imagine it would have been easy for Latvians to keep this an open issue until Soviet occupation rendered the point moot.