re re-re-reading
János Széky
miksaapja at gmail.com
Tue Oct 29 11:22:38 CDT 2013
As for his political views, he is heavily anti-Krugman.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-07-19/krugmenistan-vs-dot-estonia#p1
2013/10/29 János Széky <miksaapja at gmail.com>
> Name: Toomas Hendrik Ilves
> Year of birth: 1953
> Favourite book: Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
> Favourite place: home (farm in Southern Estonia)
> Favourite music: Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly
> Source of inspiration: forest - See more at:
> http://www.president.ee/en/media/interviews/3329-qpresident-ilves-thoughts-about-europe-and-americaq-korjaamo/#sthash.IaSHtkEt.dpuf
>
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> 2013/10/29 Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>
>
>>
>>
>> Sorry for the belated answer Thomas, been AWOL from the list for
>> a few days...
>>
>> Estonia's political scene is quite peculiar. To begin with, the
>> tensions between the Estonian-speaking and Russian-speaking populations
>> make things more complicated. There are left-center conservatives (largely
>> supported by Russian-speakers), right-wing conservatives and free-market
>> liberalists. Ilves' party, Social Democratic Party, isn't really any of
>> the above. And the party does not have too many blue-collar supporters.
>> Maybe the closest parallel would be the Liberal Party in the UK.
>>
>>
>> Heikki
>>
>> On Sat, 26 Oct 2013, Thomas Eckhardt wrote:
>>
>> > Great! I missed that old posting of yours, Heikki. Do his politics match
>> > his exquisite taste in literature and music? A-and what kind of politics
>> > would that be?
>> >
>> > Ah, I see, he has no executive power...
>> >
>> > Tohomas
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Am 26.10.2013 19:09, schrieb Heikki Raudaskoski:
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the President of Estonia, tweeted one hour ago
>> > > (thanks for bringing this to my attention, Janos Szeky!):
>> > >
>> > > "Attn RE-readers of Nabokov, @andreapitzer 's Secret History will make
>> > > you see the canon anew and become a RE-re-reader. #reZemblance (sic!)"
>> > >
>> > > https://twitter.com/IlvesToomas/status/394118263342260225
>> > >
>> > > On Pitzer's Secret History, see e.g.:
>> > > http://www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2013_05_020065.php
>> > >
>> > > About President Ilves, see e.g.:
>> > >
>> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0710&msg=122024&keywords=toomas
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Heikki
>> > > -
>> > > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>> > >
>> >
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