Manistki was born in Viinistu, on the coast of the
Gulf of Finland. He and his parents escaped to Finland and then to Sweden in 1943, when he was only one and a half years old. Manistki was
ABBA's financial manager. He lived in exile while Estonia was under Soviet control, returning in 1989, after the country regained its independence. He worked as a mushroom farmer before becoming foreign minister in 1992. He later became part-owner of the daily newspaper , and he opened the Viinistu Art Museum in 2003. ==References==