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After the liberation of Belgrade on 20 October 1944, the Communist-led government on 29 November 1945 declared King Peter II deposed and proclaimed the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. From 1945 to 1953, the President of the Presidency of the National Assembly was the office of the Yugoslav head of state. The post was held by Ivan Ribar.
Acting member of the Presidency as President of the Presidency of SR Bosnia and Herzegovina. 4: Raif Dizdarević: 1926– 31 December 1987 15 May 1989 League of Communists of Yugoslavia: President of the Presidency: 15 May 1988 – 15 May 1989. 5: Bogić Bogićević: 1953– 15 May 1989 27 April 1992 League of Communists of Yugoslavia
The president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was the head of state of that country from 14 January 1953 to 4 May 1980. Josip Broz Tito was the only person to occupy the office. Tito was also concurrently President of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia .
Josip Broz (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Јосип Броз, pronounced [jǒsip brôːz] ⓘ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (/ ˈ t iː t oʊ /; [1] Тито, pronounced), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and politician who served in various positions of national leadership from 1943 until his death in 1980. [2]
Radovan Karadžić was the President of the Republika Srpska from 1992 to 1996. He was also the founder and first leader of Serbian Democratic Party (SDS). Biljana Plavšić was the Vice President of the Republic of Srpska from 1992 to 1996. Following the war she succeeded Radovan Karadžić as the 2nd President of the Republic of Srpska in 1996.
Janez Drnovšek (the Slovenian president of the Yugoslav Presidency until May 1990) and the president of the Yugoslav Presidency Borisav Jović hold a meeting in which Slovenia is given a green light for leaving Yugoslavia. 29 November: Arkan of paramilitary Serb Volunteer Guard is arrested in Croatia, but is soon released. 3 December
President of Yugoslavia (1997–2000) & President of Serbia (1989–1997) 2001: Crimes against humanity Biljana Plavšić Republika Srpska: President of Republika Srpska (1996–1998) 2003: Crimes against humanity [145] Milan Babić Republic of Serbian Krajina: President of the Republic of Serbian Krajina (1991–1992)
After a period of political and economic crisis in the 1980s, the constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia split apart in the early 1990s. . Unresolved issues from the breakup caused a series of inter-ethnic Yugoslav Wars from 1991 to 2001 which primarily affected Bosnia and Herzegovina, neighbouring parts of Croatia and, some years later, K