A former presidential office chief, dubbed the 'vice president' – of Estonia, which has no vice presidential post – has joined Eesti 200 ahead of next year's Riigikogu elections, Eesti Ekspress reports. The adviser, Tiit Riisalo, said the party was the only one he had looked at, adding that his former boss ought to go into domestic politics also.
On Dec. 25, 1991, the once seemingly invincible Union of Soviet Socialist Republics fell when Mikhail Gorbachev, then-secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, transferred his presidential powers to Boris Yeltsin, the leader of the new Russian Federation.
Politician and academic Peeter Olesk has died. He was 67. Olesk was a government minister in the 1990s and also a literary museum director and University of Tartu librarian.
On Monday, Kersti Kaljulaid handed the presidential chain over to Alar Karis, bringing her single term in office to a close. But what did Estonia's fifth president achieve, how was she viewed domestically and internationally and how will she be remembered? ERR News asked the experts.