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Vesna (name)
Vesna () is a Slavic female name derived from the name of Vesna, an ancient Slavic goddess of spring. It means " spring" in some Slavic languages. It is in use in Croatia, North Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Slovenia. It is also given in Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. In Croatia, the name Vesna was the second most common feminine given name between 1960 and 1969, while appearing among the most common ones in two earlier decades as well. People named Vesna * Vesna Čitaković (born 1979), Serbian volleyball player *Vesna Dolonc (born 1989), Serbian tennis player * Vesna Györkös Žnidar (born 1977), Slovenian politician * Vesna Jovanovic (born 1976), American visual artist * Vesna Krmpotić (1932–2018), Croatian writer and translator * Vesna Milačić Kaja (born 1968), Montenegrin singer *Vesna Milanović-Litre (born 1986), Croatian handball player *Vesna Milošević (born 1955), Yugoslav handball player *Vesna Mišanovi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent. As a largely ambiguous term, it has a wide range of geopolitical, geographical, ethnic, cultural, and socio-economic connotations. The vast majority of the region is covered by Russia, which spans roughly 40% of the continent's landmass while accounting for approximately 15% of its total population."The Balkans" , ''Global Perspectives: A Remote Sensing and World Issues Site''. Wheeling Jesuit University/Center for Educational Technologies, 1999–2002. It represents a significant part of ; the main socio-cultural characteristics of Eastern Europe have historically been defined by the tradi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vesna Györkös Žnidar
Vesna Györkös Žnidar (born 29 December 1977) is a Slovenian politician who was Minister of Interior in the Cabinet of Miro Cerar between 18 September 2014 and 13 September 2018. She is a member of the Modern Centre Party. Career Györkös Žnidar was born on 29 December 1977. She studied law at the University of Maribor and graduated in 2001. She passed the national bar exam in 2003. With her law studies she followed the careerpath of her mother Elizabeta Györkös, who worked as a public prosecutor in Maribor. In 2005 she obtained her master's degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a degree in European law. After he studies she started working for the Maribor High Court and subsequently a notary office. Györkös Žnidar then worked for the Office for Money Laundering Prevention and from 2006 at the Bank of Slovenia. In 2012 she started her own law firm. She kept the firm until being appointed as Minister of Interior in the Cabinet of Miro C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vesna Teršelič
Vesna Teršelič (born in 1962) is a peace activist who founded the Anti-War Campaign of Croatia. In 1998, she was joint recipient of the Right Livelihood Award along with Katarina Kruhonja of the Centre for Peace, Non-violence and Human Rights, Osijek. Biography Teršelič, an ethnic Slovene born in Ljubljana, lives in Zagreb, where she works as a peace activist. Vesna Teršelič, together with other her friends, organized the Croatian Anti-War Campaign in 1991 to prevent war conflicts on the territories of the former Yugoslavia. As Teršelič said: "We initiated the anti-war ampaignon July 4, 1991, which means that we did it too late, because the whole previous year... passed in hope that surely the politicians were doing something in order to reach an agreement in a diplomatic way, reaching a new form of arrangement between Croats and Serbs in Croatia." They also launched the magazine ''Arkzin'' in September 1991 to campaign for peace and research war conflict aspects. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vesna Škare-Ožbolt
Vesna Škare-Ožbolt (; born 20 June 1961) is a Croatian politician. She was the 10th Minister of Justice of Croatia from 2003 until 2006. She was the second female holder of that office, as well as the second consecutive woman after Ingrid Antičević-Marinović. Career Before the first democratic elections in 1990, she worked in Croatian judiciary. In the 1990s she joined the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and became one of the advisors to President Franjo Tuđman. In the late 1990s she handled negotiations leading to the peaceful integration of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia into Croatia. After the defeat of the HDZ party in the 2000 parliamentary elections, Škare-Ožbolt, widely perceived as a moderate, left that party and followed Mate Granić to newly formed Democratic Centre (DC). Three years later, she won a seat in Parliament (Sabor), which turned out to be the only one for the DC Party. After Granić resigned she took the leadership of DC and j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vesna Rožič
Vesna Rožič (23 March 1987 – 23 August 2013) was a Slovenian chess player. She received the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) in April 2006. Rožič was ranked the second best Slovenian female chess player, after Anna Muzychuk. She won the Slovenian women's championship in 2007 and 2010. In 2007, Rožič also became the Mediterranean women's champion in Antalya. In team events, she represented Slovenia in four Women's Chess Olympiads (2002, 2008, 2010 and 2012), four Women's European Team Chess Championships (2005, 2007, 2009 and 2011), six Women's Mitropa Cups (2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2012) and four European Girls U18 Team Championships (2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004). In the Women's Mitropa Cup, Rožič won two team golds (in 2005 and 2006), four team silvers (in 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2012) and two individual gold medals (in 2006 and 2012). Rožič frequently played the Queen's Pawn Game with white pieces, and the French Defence with black pieces. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vesna Radović
Vesna Radović ( sr-cyrl, Весна Радовић, german: Vesna Radovic, born 7 September 1954 in Mostar) is a former Yugoslav/Austrian handball player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the sec .... In 1980 she won the silver medal with the Yugoslav team. She played three matches as goalkeeper. Four years later she finished sixth with the Austrian team in the 1984 Olympic tournament. She played all five matches as goalkeeper. References 1954 births Living people Yugoslav female handball players Serbian female handball players Austrian female handball players Handball players at the 1980 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players of Yugoslav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vesna Pusić
Vesna Pusić (; born 25 March 1953) is a Croatian sociologist and politician who served as First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs in the centre-left cabinet of Zoran Milanović. She was Croatia's second female Foreign Minister taking the office after Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović. She is known as an outspoken liberal and an advocate of European integration, anti-fascism, gender equality and LGBT rights. After becoming involved in politics in the early 1990s, Pusić served five consecutive terms as MP, having been elected to the Croatian Parliament in the 2000, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2016 parliamentary elections. She also ran in the 2009–10 presidential election, coming in fifth out of twelve candidates. During her 2008–2011 parliament term she chaired the parliamentary committee for tracking the progress of Croatia's accession negotiations with the European Union. She also held the post of Vice-President of the European Liberal Democrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vesna Pisarović
Vesna Pisarović (born 9 April 1978) is a Croatian pop and jazz singer. Life and career 1978–1999: Early life Pisarović was born in Brčko (city), Brčko, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia and grew up in Požega, Croatia, Požega, SR Croatia, a part of the same country until she was 13. From her earliest childhood she attended a music school, where she played the flute, sang in choirs and participated in various music contests. In the mid-1990s she moved to Zagreb, Croatia, where she graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She began singing in clubs and writing songs. In 1997, while performing at the Croatian festival Zadarfest, she met Milana Vlaović. Vlaović started to write songs for Vesna. 2000–2002: Breakthrough and the Eurovision Song Contest In 2002 Vesna Pisarović won the annual HRT Dora, Dora festival, the event that determines Croatia's entry for the Eurovision Song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vesna Pešić
Vesna Pešić ( sr-Cyrl, Весна Пешић, ; born May 6, 1940) is a Serbian politician and sociologist. In February 2012, Vesna Pešić announced she would leave politics after parliamentary elections on 6 May 2012. Biography In the early 1970s Pešić became the member of the ''Intellectuals' Movement for the Defense and Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms'', popularly known as the “Belgrade opposition”. In 1982, she was arrested and imprisoned for organizing the protests against the arrest of a group of the University of Belgrade students. Pešić was a founder member of the Yugoslav Helsinki Committee (1985), the Association for the Yugoslav Democratic Initiative (1989), the Yugoslav European Movement (1991) and the Centre for Antiwar Action (1991). From 1992 till 1999 she was the president of the Civic Alliance of Serbia, and from 1993 until 1997 she was one of the leaders of the Coalition Zajedno (Together), with Vuk Drašković's Serbian Renewal Movement and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vesna Mišanović
Vesna Caselotti, née Mišanović, (born 27 November 1964 in Sarajevo) is a Bosnian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster. She was winner of the first ever medal for Bosnia and Herzegovina at the first Women's European Team Chess Championship in Debrecen 1992. It was an individual silver medal for best rating performance and result at first board. Before that, she won two bronze medals by playing for the Yugoslav national team at the 1988 Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki. The medals were for overall team performance and for her individual result on fourth board. In total, she participated at six Chess Olympiads, two times for Yugoslavia (4th board in Thessaloniki 1988 and 2nd board in Novi Sad 1990) and four times for Bosnia and Herzegovina (1st board in Manila 1992, Moscow 1994, Elista 1998 and Istanbul 2000). Her first major domestic success also occurred in 1988, when she became Yugoslav Women's Chess Champion. In individual, international competitio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vesna Milošević
Vesna Milošević ( Macedonian Cyrillic: Весна Милошевиќ, born August 29, 1955, in Kičevo, Yugoslavia) is a former Yugoslav handball player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo .... In 1980 she won the silver medal with the Yugoslav team. She played all five matches as goalkeeper. External linksprofile 1955 births Living people Yugoslav female handball players Serbian female handball players Handball players at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Yugoslavia Olympic silver medalists for Yugoslavia Olympic medalists in handball People from Kičevo Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics {{Yugoslavia-handball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vesna Milanović-Litre
Vesna Milanović-Litre (born 30 May 1986) is a retired Croatian handball player who played for Kisvárdai KC last timeand the Croatian national team. After winning many Croatian championship and Croatian cup trophies in past seasons, Vesna Milanović-Litre started season 2011–12 in best possible way. Besides excellent performances on various preparation tournaments, she was elected in Dream-team as best line-player of the tournament in Metković, where Podravka played against Slovenian champions RK Krim, Montenegrin champions ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica ŽRK Budućnost is a women's handball team from Podgorica, Montenegro (previously, the club also appeared under the names ZRK Buducnost MONET, Buducnost Brillant and Buducnost Titograd). Among the numerous titles, Budućnost is two-times winne ..., Serbian champions RK Zaječar and Macedonian champions ŽRK Metalurg. Achievements *Women's Regional Handball League **''Runner-up:'' 2010–11 *Croatian Championship **Winn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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