Arnold Ruutel, Estonia's last communist leader and second president, dies at 96

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Arnold Ruutel, Estonia's last communist leader and second president, dies at 96
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Arnold Ruutel, the last communist leader of Soviet Estonia and the Baltic country's second president after the restoration of independence, has died at the age of 96.

He was the last communist leader of Soviet Estonia and the Baltic country’s second president after the restoration of independence.

A trained agriculturalist, Mr Ruutel was almost 50 when, in 1977, he began serving in high-ranking positions within the communist party of the Soviet republic of Estonia. Soon, however, he was using his position to prepare for Estonia’s split from the Soviet Union, which had occupied the tiny European country on the Baltic Sea in 1940.

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