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Vaira Viķe-Freiberga: The first female president of Latvia

Published on: Monday 12 August 2019

Vaira Viķe-Freiberga became the first female president of Latvia in 1999, just eight months after returning to the country she left 54 years earlier. A dramatic childhood saw her leave Riga with her ...

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