Join the Thompson Center and UW-Madison Center for European Studies on February 18 for a conversation on Cold War Leadership with Mart Laar, former Prime Minister of Estonia. The event, titled Out from the Cold, will center on the Estonian experience of the Cold War. Mart Laar, Ph.D., was born in 1960 in Soviet-occupied Estonia. He participated in the Resistance movement and worked for the restoration of Estonian statehood in 1991. Mart Laar has served twice as Prime Minister of the Estonian Republic. Under his first government, Estonia made the turn from East to West and, in his second, this turn was made irreversible by joining the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Alex Tahk, Director of the Thompson Center, will moderate. Questions can be submitted during the event through the streaming page. 

Register for the virtual event at explore.wisc.edu/estonia. 

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