Sandra Kalniete (born December 22, 1952) is a Latvian politician. Between 1 May 2004 and 22 November 2004 she was Latvia's EU Commissioner. Kalniete was born in Togur, Tomsk Oblast, Russia where her family was deported from Latvia during the Soviet occupation. She studied art at Latvian Academy of Art from 1977 to 1981 and worked as an art historian, publishing a book, "Latvian textile art", in 1989. She joined politics in 1988, during Latvia's independence movement, … Wikipedia
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