He speaks both Estonian and Russian fluently and is of Jewish heritage.
[3] In 1966 he graduated from the Tallinn Secondary School No.
6 (now the Tallinn Central Russian Gymnasium), and in 1971 from the Faculty of History and Linguistics of Tartu State University as a historian and history teacher.
[1][2] Since 1997 he has hosted the radio program Müstiline Venemaa ('Mysterious Russia').
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