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Mart Laar (born 22 April 1960) is an Estonian politician and historian. He served as the Prime Minister of Estonia from 1992 to 1994 and from 1999 to 2002. Laar is credited with having helped bring about Estonia’s rapid economic development during the 1990s. In April 2011, Mart Laar became Minister of Defence in the cabinet of Prime Minister Andrus Ansip〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mart Laar becomes Estonia's new Defense Minister )〕 and served until his resignation for reasons of health in May 2012. In April 2013, Riigikogu appointed Laar as chairman of the supervisory board of the Bank of Estonia, his term beginning on 12 June 2013.〔(Riigikogu nimetas Laari keskpanga nõukogu esimeheks ), uudised.err.ee, 23 April 2013.〕 ==Career== Mart Laar was born in Viljandi. He studied history at the University of Tartu, graduating in 1983; he received his Master's degree in philosophy and his doctorate in history in 2005. Laar taught history in Tallinn, and served as president of the Council of Historians of the Foundation of the Estonia Inheritance, the Society for the Preservation of Estonian History, and the Estonian Students' Society. Laar has written many books on Estonian and Soviet history, among them ''War in the Woods: Estonia's Struggle for Survival, 1944–1956'', a book about the Forest Brothers anti-Soviet resistance movement. Laar's political career began when he became a member of the conservative Pro Patria Union party (which later merged with the more technocratic Res Publica Party in 2006). He was elected prime minister by the Riigikogu on 21 October 1992. In barely two years, from 1992 to 1994, the radical reforming Estonian government of Mart Laar was the first in Europe to introduce the flat tax, privatized most national industry in transparent public tenders, abolished tariffs and subsidies, stabilized the economy, balanced the budget, and perhaps most crucially, restored the prewar kroon and pegged it to the stable deutsche mark.〔()〕 Laar claims the only book on economics he had read before becoming prime minister at the age of 32 was ''Free to Choose'' by Milton Friedman.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Walking on Water: How to Do It )〕 Due to several scandals, Laar was defeated in 1994 by no-confidence vote, when some members of the coalition withdrew their support. Reasons for the vote were publicized details of arms deal with Israel and so called "Ruble scandal" - the sale of 2.3 billion Soviet rubles, withdrawn from circulation during the Estonian monetary reform of 1992, to breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, carried out by Laar's associates at an Estonian private company, Maag, without consulting Parliament.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Baltic Voices )〕 Five years later, in 1999, Laar returned to the post, with his main policy goals being to pull the economy out of a slump and lead the country toward the European Union. He remained in the post until he stepped down in 2002. On 13 May 1999 while Prime Minister, Mart Laar with security advisor Jaan Tross, Võru County head Robert Lepikson and Government Office coordination director Eerik-Niiles Kross used a shotgun to shoot at a photo of Edgar Savisaar, leader of opposition party Keskerakond.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mart Laar 50: kaksteist kaadrit kahekordsest peaministrist - Arvamus )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=“Mart Laar vassis ja valetas”. | Õhtuleht )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=m.aripaev.ee )〕 Later he explained that during shooting he acted as a private person, not as the Prime Minister. Mart Laar apologized for this event as Prime Minister and army officer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Uus raamat « )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mart Laar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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