In the evening, the Estonian Head of State will organize a reception for about a hundred prominent Estonian cultural figures. With the reception President Ilves wishes to acknowledge the role played by the creative intelligentsia in the restoration and strengthening of Estonian independence. The list of invitees for the reception was prepared in cooperation with the artistic associations.
At the event, the Estonian Head of State will present a commemorative stone to a person that played an important role in the restoration of independence. “For 16 years, Estonia has been an independent country once again. To make sure that, as time goes by, we do not forget the role of those who held the fate of our country in their hands at the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s, I am instituting a tradition to remember these people every year on August 20th,” said President Ilves.
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