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Urmas Kruuse

Politician

Urmas Kruuse 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	Urmas Kruuse · Urmass Krūse · Урмас Круузе · اورماس کروس · ウルマス・クルーセ · 2 more...				[sources]
Alias	Urmass Krūse · Круузе, Урмас · ウルマス・クルーセ				[sources]
Birth date	1965-07-14				[sources]
Place of birth	Elva				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Estonia				[sources]
Country	Estonia				[sources]
Citizenship	Estonia				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
E-Mail	urmas.kruuse@riigikogu.ee				[sources]
First name	Urmas				[sources]
Last name	Kruuse				[sources]
Phone	+3726316474 · +3726316500				[sources]
Political association	Estonian Reform Party				[sources]
Website	facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q3741429				[sources]
Position	Minister of Health and Labour (2014-2015) · Minister of Rural Affairs (2015-2016) · Minister of Rural Affairs (2021-2022) · Minister of Rural Affairs (2022-2023) · Riigikogu (member, 2011-2011) · 10 more...				[sources]
Education	Elva Gymnasium · International University Audentes · University of Tartu				[sources]
Last change	2026-02-24	Last processed	2026-02-24	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Estonian politician (born 1965)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-09-29

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Minister of Health and Labour	2014-03-26	2015-03-30

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons271,351

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Estonia Members of the Riigikogu102

Members of the Riigikogu, Estonia's unicameral parliament

Estonia · Riigikogu

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories339,278

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,633

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions505,033

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata326,304

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: ee-rii-b07d54b2db9a289e7483e81e4c8309cb319c9fb3 · evpo-173df2d0-3584-4a91-bd88-abd1799f83d6

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