Career
He served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia in 1992. Manistki was born in Viinistu, on the coast of the Gulf of Finland. He lived in exile while Estonia was under Soviet control, returning in 1989 after the country gained its independence.
He worked as a mushroom farmer before becoming Foreign Minister in 1992.
He later became part-owner of the daily newspaper Eesti Päevaleht, and opened the Viinistu Art Museum in 2003.