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State Security Service (Serbia)
The State Security Service ( sr, Ресор државне безбедности, Resor državne bezbednosti; abbr. СДБ / SDB or РДБ / RDB) or simply State Security ( sr, Државна безбедност, Državna bezbednost; abbr. ДБ / DB), was the security agency within the Ministry of the Interior of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia tasked with protecting the country from internal threats. History It was formed in March 1991 after the dissolution of State Security Administration (UDBA). It was dissolved in July 2002 and replaced with Security Information Agency (BIA) on 1 August 2002. Special forces According to the indictment in the series of trials before the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the ''Yugoslav Special Forces'', also known as ''Yugoslav Paramilitaries'', were secretly established by or with the assistance of the State Security Service. Among those were Serb Volunteer Guard (Arkan's Tigers), Special Operations Unit (Red Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UDBA
The State Security Service ( hr, Služba državne sigurnosti, sr, Служба државне безбедности; mk, Служба за државна безбедност; sl, Služba državne varnosti), also known by its original name as the State Security Administration, was the secret police organization of Communist Yugoslavia. It was at all times best known by the acronym UDBA, which is derived from the organization's original name in the Serbo-Croatian language: "''Uprava državne bezbednosti''" ("State Security Administration"). The acronyms SDB (Serbian) or SDS (Croatian) were used officially after the organization was renamed into "State Security Service". In its latter decades it was composed of eight semi-independent secret police organizations—one for each of the six Yugoslav federal republics and two for the autonomous provinces—coordinated by the central federal headquarters in the capital of Belgrade. Although it operated with more restraint than secr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Government Agencies Established In 1991
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as well as a mechanism for determining policy. In many countries, the government has a kind of constitution, a statement of its governing principles and philosophy. While all types of organizations have governance, the term ''government'' is often used more specifically to refer to the approximately 200 independent national governments and subsidiary organizations. The major types of political systems in the modern era are democracies, monarchies, and authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. Historically prevalent forms of government include monarchy, aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, theocracy, and tyranny. These forms are not always mutually exclusive, and mixed govern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 Establishments In Yugoslavia
File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, 1991 Russian presidential election, elected as Russia's first President of Russia, president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet Union, Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, erupts in the Philippines, making it the List of large historical volcanic eruptions, second-largest Types of volcanic eruptions, volcanic eruption of the 20th century; MTS Oceanos sinks off the coast of South Africa, but the crew notoriously abandons the vessel before the passengers are rescued; Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Flag of the Soviet Union, Soviet flag is lowered from the Kremlin for the last time and replaced with the flag of the Russian Federation; The United States and soon-to-be dissolved Soviet Union sign the START I Treaty; A tropical cyclone 1991 Bangladesh cyclone, strikes Bangladesh, killing nearly 140,000 people; Lauda Air Flight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Security Administration (FR Yugoslavia)
The Security Administration ( sr, Uprava bezbednosti / Управа безбедности) was the counterintelligence branch of the Military of Serbia and Montenegro. History When the Army of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (''Vojska Jugoslavije'') was formed on 20 May 1992, the Security Administration, former KOS, was moved from the Federal Secretariat of People's Defence (''Savezni sekretarijat za narodnu odbranu'') to the General Staff (''Generalštab''). In 2002, it was split into the Military Security Agency (VBA) and the Military Intelligence Agency The Military Intelligence Agency ( sr, Војнообавештајна Агенција / Vojnoobaveštajna Agencija, abbr. VOA) is the military intelligence agency of the Ministry of Defence of Serbia. The Military Intelligence Agency is an exp ... (VOA). See also * State Security Service (SDB) References External links {{Authority control 1992 establishments in Serbia Government agencies established in 1992 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Security Administration (Yugoslavia)
The State Security Service ( hr, Služba državne sigurnosti, sr, Служба државне безбедности; mk, Служба за државна безбедност; sl, Služba državne varnosti), also known by its original name as the State Security Administration, was the secret police organization of Communist Yugoslavia. It was at all times best known by the acronym UDBA, which is derived from the organization's original name in the Serbo-Croatian language: "''Uprava državne bezbednosti''" ("State Security Administration"). The acronyms SDB (Serbian) or SDS (Croatian) were used officially after the organization was renamed into "State Security Service". In its latter decades it was composed of eight semi-independent secret police organizations—one for each of the six Yugoslav federal republics and two for the autonomous provinces—coordinated by the central federal headquarters in the capital of Belgrade. Although it operated with more restraint than secr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreja Savić
Andreja ( sr, Андреја) is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Andreja Apostolović (born 1996), Serbian football midfielder *Andreja Efremov (born 1992), Macedonian footballer *Andreja Gomboc (born 1969), Slovenian astrophysicist *Andreja Katič (born 1969), Minister of Justice of the Republic of Slovenia *Andreja Klepač (born 1986), professional Slovenian tennis player * Andreja Koblar (née Grašič), (born 1971), former Slovenian biathlete *Andreja Kojić (1896–1952), Serbian footballer *Andreja Krsmanović (born 2003), Serbian basketball player * Andreja Kulunčić (born 1968), Croatian artist, living and working in Zagreb, Croatia * Andreja Lazović (born 1994), Serbian footballer *Andreja Leskovšek (born 1965), Slovenian former Olympic alpine skier *Andreja Mali (born 1977), former Slovenian biathlete and former cross-country skier * Andreja Marinković (born 1965), Serbian athlete *Andreja Milutinović (born 1990), Serbian professional basketball pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 Special Operations Unit Mutiny (Serbia)
On 9 November 2001, soldiers of the Special Operations Unit (JSO), an elite special forces police unit of the FR Yugoslav State Security Service (RDB), also known as the ''Red Berets'', raised a mutiny in response to the arrest and extradition of the Banović brothers, indicted for war crimes before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the group's opposition to the Government of Serbia headed by Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić. The mutiny ended on 17 November 2001 after certain concessions had been given to the Unit and the key figures in the State Security Service were dismissed. The mutiny was the forerunner of major political upheavals in Serbia, one of which was the assassination of Zoran Đinđić in 2003. Background Overthrow of Milošević During the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in October 2000, the Special Operations Unit (JSO) played a significant role. The Unit's commander Milorad Ulemek made an agreement with opposition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goran Petrović (politician)
Goran Petrović () (born 1961 in Kraljevo, Serbia) is a Serbian writer and academic. Biography Goran Petrović studied Yugoslav and Serbian literature at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology. He received the most prominent award in Serbian literature, the NIN Award, in 2000, for his novel ''Ситничарница „Код срећне руке"''. Currently he works and lives in Belgrade. Petrović is a member of the Serbian Literary Association, the Serbian PEN Centre and the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Goran Petrović has published one hundred and fifteen editions and the following books: the short prose pieces ''Савети за лакши живот'' (''Advices for an Easier Living'', 1989), novel ''Атлас описан небом'' (''Atlas Described by Sky'', 1993), collection of short stories ''Острво и околне приче'' (''The Island and Stories Around'', 1996), novel ''Опсада цркве Светог Спаса'' (''The Sie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slobodan Milošević
Slobodan Milošević (, ; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the president of Serbia within Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1997 (originally the Socialist Republic of Serbia, a constituent republic of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, from 1989 to 1992) and president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000. Formerly a high-ranking member of the League of Communists of Serbia (SKS) during the 1980s, he led the Socialist Party of Serbia from its foundation in 1990 until 2003. Born in Požarevac, he studied law at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law and joined the League of Socialist Youth of Yugoslavia as a student. During the 1960s he served as an advisor to mayor of Belgrade Branko Pešić, and was later appointed chairman of Tehnogas and Beobanka, roles which he served until the 1980s. Milošević rose to power in 1987 by promoting populist and nationalist views, arguing for the reduction of power of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overthrow Of Slobodan Milošević
The overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, began after the presidential election on 24 September and culminated in the downfall of Slobodan Milošević's government on 5 October 2000. It is sometimes referred to as the 5 October Overthrow ( sr, Петооктобарска револуција, Petooktobarska revolucija, lit=The October 5 Revolution) and sometimes colloquially called the (), after one of the most memorable episodes from the day-long protest in which a heavy equipment operator charged the Radio Television of Serbia building, considered to be symbolic of the Milošević regime's propaganda. Prelude Milošević's rule has been described by observers as authoritarian or autocratic, as well as kleptocratic, with numerous accusations of electoral frauds, political assassinations, suppression of media freedom and police brutality. He became the first sitting head of state to be charged with war crimes. His role in the Yugoslav Wars led to inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
