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Biography of Vaira Vike-Freiberga

Vaira Vike-Freiberga was the President of the Republic of Latvia.

She was born on December 1, 1937, in Riga. When she was only a month old, her father passed away. In December 1944, her family fled to Germany along with retreating German forces.

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She received her primary education in a Latvian school in a refugee camp in Lübeck, Germany, and in a French school in Casablanca, Morocco.

At the age of 16, Vaira's family moved to Canada, where she worked as a bank clerk and a mail sorter.

In Canada, she obtained a bachelor's degree in English language, a master's degree in psychology, and later a doctorate in experimental psychology. She is fluent in Latvian, French, English, German, and Spanish, but never learned Russian, although she made attempts to study it.

From 1965 to 1998, Vaira worked as a professor of psychology at the Unive