1. Andres Tarand was a Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists, between 2004 and 2009.
10 Facts About Andres Tarand
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Andres Tarand graduated from the University of Tartu with a degree in climatology in 1963.
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Andres Tarand continued to do research at Tartu, eventually becoming director of research in 1979, to 1981.
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In October 1980, Tarand was a signatory of the Letter of 40 Intellectuals, a public letter in which forty prominent Estonian intellectuals defended the Estonian language and protested the Russification policies of the Kremlin in Estonia.
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Besides serving as director of research at University of Tartu, Andres Tarand has been a member of the board for the university, since 1996, as well as director of the Tallinn Botanical Gardens, from 1988 to 1990.
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Andres Tarand has been a member of the Estonian Parliament from 1992 to 2004.
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Andres Tarand was elected to the European Parliament in June 2004.
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Andres Tarand has been involved in environmental and sustainable development concerns not only in Estonia but throughout the Baltic and Nordic states.
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The elder son Indrek Andres Tarand was born on 1964 and is a politician, historian and journalist who won a seat in the European Parliament, running as an independent candidate in the 2009 election.
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The younger son Kaarel Andres Tarand was born on 1966 and is a well-known journalist.