Former Estonian President, Arnold Ruutel, regarded as one of the fathers of the nation’s return to independence in 1991 has died at the age 96., the president’s office disclosed on Tuesday.
“He was one of the leaders of our independence,” said a statement from the office of the Baltic country’s presidency.
Ruutel was a communist party official at the end of the 1980s just as the Soviet Union was beginning to unravel, before becoming a protagonist in the Baltic country’s…
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