Marju Lauristin
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Marju Lauristin MEP |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
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Assumed office 1 July 2014 |
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| Constituency | Estonia |
| Minister of Social Affairs | |
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In office 22 October 1992 – 20 September 1994 |
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| Prime Minister | Tiit Vähi |
| Preceded by | Positsion established |
| Succeeded by | Toomas Vilosius |
| Member of the Estonian Parliament | |
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In office 20 September 1992 – 1 July 2014 |
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| Constituency | Põlva |
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7 April 1940 Narva, Estonia |
| Political party |
 EstonianSocial Democratic Party  EUParty of European Socialists |
| Alma mater | Tallinn University |
Marju Lauristin (born 7 April 1940) is an Estonian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Estonia. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.
She is the daughter of the communist politicians Johannes Lauristin and Olga Lauristin, two leading politicians in the Communist Party of Estonia. Together with Edgar Savisaar, in 1988 Lauristin established Rahvarinne, the first large-scale independence movement in Estonia since the country's incorporation into the USSR. In 1990 she was deputy speaker of the Estonian parliament. From 1992 to 1994 she was the minister of Social Affairs of Estonia (Estonian Social Democratic Party/'Moderates'). Later, she was also a member of the Riigikogu, elected as a member of the People's Party Moderates (Estonian: Rahvaerakond Mõõdukad).
Lauristin graduated from the Tartu State University (now Tartu University) in 1966 with a degree in Journalism and Sociology of Mass Communication.
In 1976, Lauristin completed her PhD studies in Journalism at Moscow University. Her thesis was focused on content analysis of newspaper texts.
Since 2003, Lauristin has been a professor of Social communication at Tartu University.
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