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Baltic central banks: highly paid and overcrowded
Out of the three current prime ministers in the Baltic states, two – Einars Repse of Latvia and Siim Kallas of Estonia used to run their country’s central bank. If one were to also recall the Ukrainian ex-premier, also former president of the Bank of Ukraine, the importance of the leading position in central banks and the great role these central banks play in post-Soviet countries becomes quite obvious