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Slobodan Milošević (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Слободан Милошевић, pronounced [slobǒdan milǒːʃevitɕ] ⓘ; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the President of Serbia between 1989–1997 and President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 until his оverthrow in 2000.
Many onlookers believed that Milošević's intentions for supporting such reforms had more to do with holding power than with improving democracy. [23] On 27 July 2000, the authorities announced that the early elections were to be held 24 September 2000, although Milošević's term wouldn't expire until 23 July 2001.
The anti-bureaucratic revolution (Serbian: Антибирократска револуција, romanized: Antibirokratska revolucija) was a campaign of street protests by supporters of Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević that ran between 1988 and 1989 in Yugoslavia.
Milošević was found dead in his cell on 11 March 2006, in the UN war crimes tribunal's detention center, located in the Scheveningen section of The Hague, Netherlands. [17] The proceedings against him were terminated [18] three days later, which effectively ended the trial. Post-mortems soon established that Milošević had died of a heart ...
The Central Committee of the 10th Congress of the League of Communists of Serbia (SKS) held its 8th session in Belgrade on 23–24 September 1987. This session proved to be a turning point in the history of Serbia and Yugoslavia, as it marked the rise of Slobodan Milošević as the key force in Serbian politics.
Milosevic was put on trial for his alleged involvement in fomenting the bloody conflicts that erupted as Yugoslavia crumbled but he died in his cell in 2006 before verdicts could be reached.
The most famous associations and NGOs who marked the anti-war ideas and movements in Serbia were the Center for Antiwar Action, Women in Black, Humanitarian Law Center and Belgrade Circle. [ 3 ] [ 1 ] The Rimtutituki was a rock supergroup featuring Ekatarina Velika , Električni Orgazam and Partibrejkers members, which was formed at the ...
Geographer Peter Rogerson has devised a rather precise method for finding the true center of North America. Geographer finds that a town called Center is, in fact, the center of North America Skip ...