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Raivo Seppo (born 29 January 1973) is an Estonian novelist. He is a member of the Estonian Genealogical Society (Estonian : Eesti Genealoogia Selts).
His novels Pöörane Villemiine (2003) and Fredegunde, Neustria kuninganna (2006) received considerable acclaim by critics in Estonia.
Mart Laar is an Estonian politician and historian. He served as the Prime Minister of Estonia from 1992 to 1994 and from 1999 to 2002. Laar is credited with having helped bring about Estonia's rapid economic development during the 1990s. He is a member of the centre-right Isamaa party.
Tõnu Trubetsky, also known as Tony Blackplait, is an Estonian punk rock/glam punk musician, film and music video director, and individualist anarchist.
Estonia sent 27 athletes to the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. Half of them competed in cross-country skiing, where Estonia won all of their three Turin Olympic medals. Olympic champion Andrus Veerpalu participated on his 5th Winter Olympics.
Roman Steinberg, was an Estonian Greco-Roman wrestling bronze medal winner in middleweight class at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. Steinberg was also three times Estonian wrestling champion 1921–1923, coached by Robert Oksa. He died after contracting tuberculosis, age 39, and was buried at Alexander Nevsky Cemetery, Tallinn.
Erik Schmidt was a painter and writer.
Lauri Vahtre is an Estonian politician, historian, translator and writer.
Porkuni is a village in Tapa Parish, Lääne-Viru County, in northern Estonia. The settlement is located around the Lake Porkuni, which is the source of the Valgejõgi River.
Raul Rebane is an Estonian journalist and communication consultant.
Uido Truija is an Estonian lawyer and writer.
Theodor Altermann was an actor, theatre director and producer in the Russian Empire.
Igor Volke is an Estonian ufologist and researcher of environmental anomalies.
Karl Säre was a Soviet and Estonian communist politician. He was the first first secretary of the Central Committee of the Estonian Communist Party. During World War II, he was arrested by Nazi Germany and taken to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he died in 1945. The Soviet government avoided the mention of Säre's name in any public sources, as he was suspected of treason by disclosing to Nazi Germany information about the Stalinist officials and pro-Soviet agents who had remained in German-occupied Estonia during the war.
Riho Ühtegi is an Estonian brigadier general. He has been the Commander of the Estonian Special Operations Force. Since 2019, he is the commander of the Estonian Defence League.
Urmas Espenberg is an Estonian author, politician and publicist, member of the XIV Riigikogu as an alternate member.
Ekspress Meedia is an Estonian media company.
Peeter Kaldur is an Estonian Lutheran clergyman.
Liisa Aibel is an Estonian stage, film and television actress.
Kalle Eller was an Estonian publisher, neopagan, cultural researcher, educator and poet.
Jüri Krjukov was an Estonian actor.
Siberi Tööline was an Estonian language newspaper, published from Omsk and Novonikolayevsk, Soviet Russia 1920-1922.
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