Siim Kallas is a Soviet and Estonian politician,former Prime Minister of Estonia,and former European Commissioner,as well as a former member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He served as the European Commissioner for Transport between 2010 and 2014. Before that he was the European Commissioner for Administrative Affairs,Audit and Anti-Fraud between 2004 and 2009. In both Barroso Commissions he was also a Vice-President. He was twice appointed the Acting Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Euro in Olli Rehn's stead,from 19 April 2014 to 25 May 2014 while he was on electoral campaign leave for the 2014 elections to the European Parliament and from 1 July 2014 to 16 July 2014 after he took up his seat.
Otto August Strandman was an Estonian politician,who served as prime minister (1919) and State Elder of Estonia (1929–1931). He was one of the leaders of the centre-left Estonian Labour Party,that saw its biggest support after the 1919 and 1920 elections. Strandman was a key figure in composing the radical land reform law and the 1920 Constitution. He also served as Minister of Agriculture (1918–1919),Minister of Justice,Minister of Finance (1924),Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of War (1919). While he was holding the office of the Minister of Finance,he stabilized the economy and managed to avoid hyperinflation. Strandman served as the speaker of the Estonian Provincial Assembly in 1917–1918,and as speaker of the newly independent country's parliament (Riigikogu) in 1921. He was also a diplomat,serving as the Estonian envoy in Warsaw,Poland (1927–1929),and in Paris,France (1933–1939).
Korporatsioon Vironia is an Estonian fraternal student society and the oldest student corps in Estonia. The organization is named after the Latin name for the ancient Estonian county of Virumaa. A full member of the organization is called a "vironus",while every member can also be called a "Vironian" (viroonlane).
Konstantin Päts was an Estonian statesman and the country's president in 1938–1940. Päts was one of the most influential politicians of the independent democratic Republic of Estonia,and during the two decades prior to World War II he also served five times as the country's prime minister. After the 16–17 June 1940 Soviet invasion and occupation of Estonia,President Päts remained formally in office for over a month,until he was forced to resign,imprisoned by the new Stalinist regime,and deported to the USSR,where he died in 1956.
Jaan Tõnisson was an Estonian statesman,serving as the Prime Minister of Estonia twice during 1919 to 1920,as State Elder from 1927 to 1928 and in 1933,and as Foreign Minister of Estonia from 1931 to 1932.
Jüri Uluots was an Estonian prime minister,journalist,prominent attorney and distinguished Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Tartu.
Kaarel Eenpalu was an Estonian journalist,politician and head of state,who served as 7th Prime Minister of Estonia.
Ado Birk,was an Estonian politician who was the Estonian Prime Minister for three days,from 28 July 1920 to 30 July 1920.
Jaan Anvelt,was an Estonian Bolshevik revolutionary and writer. He served the Russian SFSR,was a leader of the Communist Party of Estonia,the first premier of the Soviet Executive Committee of Estonia,and the chairman of the Council of the Commune of the Working People of Estonia. Imprisoned during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge in 1937,he died from the injuries sustained during a beating by Aleksandr Langfang while in NKVD custody.
Tõnis Kint was an Estonian politician. He served as "Prime Minister in duties of the President" from 23 December 1970 to 1 March 1990.
Aleksander Warma VR I/3 was an Estonian navy officer,diplomat and painter.
Ants Piip VR III/1 was an Estonian lawyer,diplomat and politician. Piip was the 1st Head of State of Estonia and the 5th Prime Minister of Estonia. Piip played a key role in internationalising the independence aspirations of Estonia during the Paris Peace Conference following World War I.
Otto Tief was an Estonian politician,military commander,and a lawyer.
The Estonian government-in-exile was the formally declared governmental authority of the Republic of Estonia in exile,existing from 1944 until the reestablishment of Estonian sovereignty over Estonian territory in 1991. It traced its legitimacy through constitutional succession to the last Estonian government in power prior to the June 1940 Soviet invasion and occupation of the country. During its existence,it was the internationally recognized government of Estonia.
The following is an alphabetical list of articles related to the Republic of Estonia.
Mihkel Martna was an Estonian politician and journalist.
Karl Ast was an Estonian writer and politician.
The Estonian Constituent Assembly was elected on 5–7 April 1919,called by the Estonian Provisional Government during the Estonian War of Independence.
Jan Antonovich Berzin was a Latvian village teacher,later Bolshevik revolutionary,journalist and Soviet diplomat. He was Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Austria between 1925 and 1927. He was executed during the Great Purge and posthumously rehabilitated in 1956.
Nikolai Köstner (1889–1959) was an Estonian politician,economist,diplomat and academic. He was a member of the Provisional Assembly of the Autonomous Estonian Governorate (1917–19) and the Constituent Assembly of the newly established Republic of Estonia (1919–20);he also served as a minister in Jaan Raamot's Provincial Government in 1917,in the Second and Third Provisional Governments (1918–19),and in Otto Strandman's first Cabinet and Jaan Tõnisson's first Cabinet. He was also part of the Estonian delegation to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. In later life,he worked as an academic at the University of Tartu and as an adviser to a number of national banks.
