Toomas Hendrik Ilves talks to Ali Velshi

Toomas Hendrik Ilves talks to Ali Velshi (5)

Rahvusvahelised uudised | 07 Oct 2014 | EWR OnlineEWR

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You grew up in New Jersey and spent a good amount of time in America.

Twenty years, I spent. My parents were refugees. They met in Sweden, and I was born there. And then my uncle had come to the United States. He sponsored them, and they moved to New Jersey. So I grew up in New Jersey, and then I went to college here. Then I went to graduate school in Pennsylvania, and then, well, then I moved on.

But in your journey of moving on, you became a journalist?

Yes. Well, I was at I was at Radio Free Europe for a number of years, almost 10. First as an analyst writing about events in [the] Soviet Union, and then they sort of lifted me up by the scuff of my neck and made me head — director of the Estonian Service. So I was there until the beginning of the '90s.

How did you make this transition out of the news business and into government?
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to maxime latrine09 Oct 2014 11:08

you are close maxime, to get it right, substitute "accurate" for 'crazy'

ok08 Oct 2014 22:09

"One country has basically decided it no longer needs to follow the rules that we’ve agreed upon."
... oh, has the eu and nato been told ?
the selected, not elected ilves speaks as if he is the leader of an independent country

To: Vaimuhaige08 Oct 2014 11:10

Is everyone who doesn't share your mainstream views a "Maxim de La Trine"? Is anyone who questions pro-western government/media "crazy"?

Do you feel that Maxim de la Trine is always following you? What are the little voices saying?

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