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The Estonian Institute is a non-governmental and non-profit organisation aiming to promote Estonian culture abroad. The institute was founded in 1989 as a shadow foreign office for the Estonian independence movement by Lennart Meri later the first foreign minister and first president of Estonia after the Soviet occupation. Current director of the institute is the son of the president philologist and Finno-Ugric specialist Mart Meri.