Villu Reiljan (born 23 May 1953 in

Võru Võru (; ; ) is a town and a municipality in south-eastern Estonia. It is the capital of Võru County and the centre of Võru Parish. History Võru was founded on 21 August 1784, at the request of the Empress Catherine II of Russia, by the o ...

) is a former

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n politician. He has been member of VIII, IX and

X Riigikogu X Riigikogu was the tenth legislature of the Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu The Riigikogu (, from Estonian ''riigi-'', "of the state", and ''kogu'', "assembly") is the unicameral parliament of Estonia. In addition to approving legislation, ...

. From 1995 to 1999 and from 2003 to 2006, he was the Minister of Environment. In 1975 he graduated from Estonian Agricultural Academy in forest management. He was a member of the

People's Union of Estonia People's, branded as ''People's ViennaLine'' until May 2018, and legally ''Altenrhein Luftfahrt GmbH'', is an Austro-Swiss airline headquartered in Vienna, Austria. It operates scheduled and charter passenger flights mainly from its base at St ...

. His older brother was an economist and politician,

Janno Reiljan Janno Reiljan (8 October 1951 in Mikita, Rõuge Parish, Mikita – 23 January 2018) was an Estonian politician, economist and professor of foreign economics at the University of Tartu. He has been a member of IX Riigikogu, IX and X Riigikogu. He ...

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