Jaan Manitski is an Estonia

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

n former politician, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia.

Biography

Manistki was born in Viinistu

Viinistu

Viinistu is a village in Kuusalu Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia....

, leaving with his family for Sweden

Sweden

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 the following year. He lived in exile while Estonia was under Russian control, returning in 1989 after the country gained its independence.

He worked as a mushroom

Mushroom

A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus; hence the word "mushroom" is most often applied to those fungi that...

 farmer before becoming Foreign Minister in 1992. He later became part-owner of the daily newspaper Eesti Päevaleht

Eesti Päevaleht

Eesti Päevaleht is a major daily Estonian newspaper, from the same publishers as the weekly Eesti Ekspress. It has a daily circulation of around 36,000....

, and opened the Viinistu Art Museum in 2003.