Government and Politics
- Ion Inculeţ, president of the Moldavian Democratic Republic
- Alexander Kerensky, second Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government
- Vladimir Lenin - the first head of the Russian SFSR
- Dmitry Medvedev - politician, businessman, lawyer, and the third President of the Russian Federation (2008–present)
- Vladimir Putin - the second President of the Russian Federation (2000–2008); Prime Minister of Russia (2008–present)
- Antanas Smetona - President of Lithuania (first term 1919-1920; second term 1926-1940)
- Anatoly Sobchak - Russian politician and a co-author of the Constitution of the Russian Federation
- Augustinas Voldemaras - Prime Minister of Lithuania
- Dalia Grybauskaite - President of Lithuania 2009–present
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