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Heidy Purga

Politician

Heidy Purga is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Heidy Purga · Хейди Пурга · هیدی پورگا				[sources]
Alias	Пурга, Хейди				[sources]
Birth date	1975-03-18				[sources]
Place of birth	Tartu				[sources]
Gender	female				[sources]
Nationality	Estonia				[sources]
Country	Estonia				[sources]
Citizenship	Estonia				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
E-Mail	heidy.purga@riigikogu.ee				[sources]
First name	Heidy				[sources]
Last name	Purga				[sources]
Phone	+3726316656				[sources]
Political association	Estonian Reform Party				[sources]
Website	facebook.com · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q16404493				[sources]
Position	Minister of Culture · Minister of Culture (2023-) · Riigikogu (member, 2015-2019) · Riigikogu (member, 2019-) · member of Tallinn City Council · 2 more...				[sources]
Education	Concordia International University Estonia · Elva Gymnasium · Tallinn University				[sources]
Source link	www.cia.gov				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-18	Last processed	2026-01-22	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Estonian journalist and politician (born 1975)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-07-03

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Jaanus Rohumaa Close Associate	unmarried partner	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the Riigikogu	2019-04-04	-

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories383,922

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators40,653

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,600

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

US CIA World Leaders10,998

An index of most national-level cabinet members in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.

United States · CIA

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata334,541

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions526,398

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-b6f6e388-f9bd-4915-ad74-fff14e990fbf · us-cia-estonia-heidy-purga-minister-of-culture

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