2015 in Estonia
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The following lists events and other items of interest occurring during 2015 in Estonia.
Incumbents
Events
March
- 1 March - Parliamentary elections are held. The ruling Reform Party wins the elections, but loses the majority that it has had with its current coalition partner, the Social Democratic Party; for the first time in many years, two new parties cross the election threshold, the right-of-centre Free Party and the eurosceptic Conservative People's Party of Estonia.[1]
Deaths
- 27 January - Vladimir-Georg Karassev-Orgusaar, 83, film director[2]
- 21 June - Arved Viirlaid, 93, Estonian-Canadian writer[3]
- 30 July - Endel Lippmaa, 84, scientist and politician[4]
References
- ↑ "Ruling Reform Party wins Estonian election, fending off challenge from archrival Center".
- ↑ In Memory of a Man they Just Couldn’t Gag: Vladimir-Georg Karassev-Orgusaar (1931-2015), RIP
- ↑ Suri Arved Viirlaid (Estonian)
- ↑ Academic and politician Endel Lippmaa dies
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