Sandra Kalniete

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sandra Kalniete
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Dec 22, 1952(1952-12-22)
Age	72
Birthplace	Kolpashevsky District
Country	Russia
Birth City	Tomsk Oblast
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Sandra Kalniete Biography

Sandra Kalniete is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on December 22, 1952 in Kolpashevsky District, Tomsk Oblast, Russia. Latvian politicianand diplomat and leader of the independence movement. She was Latvia’s Foreign Minister from Latvia between 2002 and 2004. She was also as the Latvian ambassador to the United Nations from 1993 to 1997.

She wrote a novel about her family’s exile during the She wrote a book about her family’s deportation during the Joseph Stalin era. era.

Sandra Kalniete (born 22 December 1952) is a Latvian politician, author, diplomat and independence movement leader. She served as Foreign Minister of Latvia 2002–2004 and as European Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries in 2004. Since 2009, she has served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the European People’s Party.

She studied art at the Latvian Academy of Art from 1977 to 1981 and worked as an art historian, publishing a book, Latvian Textile Art, in 1989. She joined politics in 1988, during Latvia’s independence movement, and was a deputy chairwoman and one of the founders of Latvian Popular Front, the main pro- independence political organization. Ms. Kalniete has graduated from the Department of Art History and Art Theory at the Art Academy of Latvia (1981), the Institute for International Studies at the University of Leeds (1992), The Graduate Institute of International Studies at the University of Geneva (1995), and has a Master of Arts from the Art Academy of Latvia (1996).

She was born to parents in Siberia.

Sandra Kalniete Net Worth

Sandra Kalniete is one of the richest Politician from Russia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sandra Kalniete 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The graduate graduated from Department of Art History and Art Theory at Latvia’s Art Academy of Latvia.

She joined the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and was elected a member of the European Parliament for the European People’s Party in the year 2009.

Kalniete was born in Togur, Kolpashevsky District, Tomsk Oblast, Siberia, Russia, where her family had been deported from Latvia by the Soviet secret police during the occupation of her country by the Soviet Union, for use as slave labour. Her mother Ligita Kalniete (née Dreifelde, 1926-2006) was first deported together with her mother and father in 1941, after which Ligita returned in 1948, just to be deported again in 1949. Her father Aivars Kalnietis (born 1931) was deported together with his mother in 1949 as well. She only saw her native country when she was five years old, when the family was allowed to return in 1957.

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Who is Sandra Kalniete Dating?

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In 2004, she argued that “behind the Iron Curtain the Soviet regime continued to commit genocide against the peoples of Eastern Europe and, indeed, against its own people […] the two totalitarian regimes—Nazism and Communism—were equally criminal.” She elaborated on this in 2006 when she came up with death counts for the two regimes, pointing out that the Soviet Union killed around 94.5 million people.

Facts & Trivia

Sandra Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Russia. Sandra Kalniete celebrates birthday on December 22 of every year.

At the beginning of 2006, Kalniete joined the New Era Party. In October 2006, she was elected to the Latvian parliament. She was the 2007 candidate of the New Era Party for the post of Latvian president, before withdrawing in favor of Aivars Endziņš on 24 May 2007.