Atlantic Council

From the AP:  Estonia's center-right government led by Prime Minister Andrus Ansip on Wednesday took its oath of office in the nation's parliament.

The coalition of Ansip's conservative Reform Party and the right-wing IRL is the same as the one that formally resigned Monday, but thanks to its victory in last month's election it now controls 56 seats in the 101-seat parliament -- six more than in the previous legislature.

From EICEE:  In 1992, at the age of thirty two, Laar was appointed Estonia’s first post-communist Prime Minister by Estonian President Lennart Meri. In 1999 he returned to the post to bring Estonia’s economic crisis to an end and to lead Estonia toward admission to the European Union. ...

As a historian, Laar has written several books on Estonian and Russian history, including War in the Woods: Estonia's Struggle for Survival, 1944-1956 about those who refused to accept the Soviet Union’s annexation of Estonia.  (photo: fastleader.com)