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Ruuben Kaalep

Politician

Ruuben Kaalep 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	Ruuben Kaalep · Ռուբեն Կաալեպ · روبن کالپ				[sources]
Birth date	1993-09-21				[sources]
Place of birth	Tallinn				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Estonia				[sources]
Country	Estonia				[sources]
Citizenship	Estonia				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
E-Mail	ruuben.kaalep@riigikogu.ee				[sources]
First name	Ruuben				[sources]
Last name	Kaalep				[sources]
Phone	+3726316305				[sources]
Political association	Conservative People's Party of Estonia · Nationalists and Conservatives of Estonia				[sources]
Website	facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q29420141				[sources]
Position	Riigikogu (member, 2019-) · member of the Riigikogu (2019-)				[sources]
Education	Hugo Treffner Gymnasium · University of Tartu				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-18	Last processed	2026-01-18	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Estonian politician (born 1993)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-10-05

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Irene Saal Close Associate	mother	-	-
Ain Kaalep Politician	father	-	-

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

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators40,660

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 Persons in Relevant Categories383,945

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,576

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions525,938

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata334,490

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-7bbb9e44-faa6-4687-8b67-d932b0089517

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