Leonora Linter

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Leonora Linter (born 11 September 1950) [1] is an Estonian political activist and entrepreneur mainly associated with Estdirect Office OÜ, a mail order service established in 2005. [2] Linter is also the mother of Dmitri Linter, a pro-Kremlin political activist mainly associated with Coordination Centre "Novorossiya" and Nochnoy Dozor (pressure group).

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Through Estdirect Office OÜ, Linter has been selling breast enlargement pills, lottery luck rings, weight reduction pills [2] and magic fast-growing strawberry plants. [3]

Several years earlier, Linter's company Linter & Ko represented Federal Express in Estonia. This business relation gathered attention because of Linter's unusual surcharge for intra-Estonian delivery of packages originally paid for door-to-door delivery. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Leonora Linter". Inforegister. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
  2. 1 2 Eesti Päevaleht 15 September 2006 00:25 Sõrmus sõrme ja lotovõit on sinu by Priit Pruul
  3. ↑ Kanal 2 Reporter 19 September 2008 14:30: hämarfirma Estdirect hullutab imemaasikatega
  4. ↑ Äripäev 6 August 2001: FedEx’i teenus peidab lisatasusid
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