Erkki Bahovski (born 22 April 1970) is an

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n journalist and press officer.

Education

Bahovski studied at the Estonian Institute of Human Sciences from 1989 to 1992. From 1992 to 1999, he studied history at

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. Bahovski studied at the

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in Netherlands in 1994, in the

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of the

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in 2004, and in the International Visitors Leadership Programme in the U.S. in 2006.

Career

Bahovski worked for ''

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'', the largest newspaper in Estonia, from 1995 until 2008. After that, he became the

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Representation's press officer for Estonia until 2011.EU Information center
/ref> He was a permanent guest on the weekly radio show ''Rahva Teenrid'' (People's Servants) in 2006–2008. Since 2011, he is the host of the foreign policy broadcast on the Estonian National Broadcasting. Bahovski is a member of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute ( :et).

References

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