Radomir Dmitrović (; born 1958) is a Serbian

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journalist, publicist and politician who served as minister of families and demographics from 2020 to 2022.

Biography

Early life and career

Dmitrović was born in 1958 in

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. He finished high school in Kostajnica. He studied law, journalism and art history in

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and

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. He began his professional career as a journalist in 1981. He worked for a regional paper whose headquarters were in

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. He soon became a correspondent for

Politika ''Politika'' ( sr-Cyrl, Политика; ''Politics'') is a Serbian daily newspaper, published in Belgrade. Founded in 1904 by Vladislav F. Ribnikar, it is the oldest daily newspaper still in circulation in the Balkans. Publishing and owners ...

for Croatia, and then in the second half of the eighties he moved to Zagreb, from where he reported. While working in Politika, he was also a journalist for NIN. He came to Belgrade in August 1991 and started working for the

Radio Television of Serbia Radio Television of Serbia ( sr-Cyrl, Радио-телевизија Србије, sr-Lat, Radio-televizija Srbije, italics=yes; abbr. RTS/PTC) is Serbia's public broadcaster. It broadcasts and produces news, drama, and sports programming thro ...

(RTS). He worked for RTS until December 1993, when he left to start his own newspaper. At the beginning of 1994, he started the weekly paper called ''Argument'', of which he was the editor-in-chief, and which was published until 1999. After the

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, he became an advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia Nebojsa Čović. He worked as the editor-in-chief of the

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"News" for five years. Since 2008, he has been a regular columnist for the newspaper Pečat on the topic of Serbo-Croatian relations. He was the general director and editor-in-chief of the company " Novosti" from. He was appointed acting director unanimously by the Supervisory Board of Novosti on May 16, 2013. He was officially appointed head of Novosti after a vote in the company held in 2013 and stayed in that position until 2017.

Political career

In the parliamentary elections in 2020, he was elected a

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in the

National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia The National Assembly ( sr-cyr, Народна скупштина, Narodna skupština, ) is the Unicameralism, unicameral legislature of Serbia. The assembly is composed of 250 Deputy (legislator), deputies who are Proportional representation, pr ...

, on the

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of the

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. He appeared on the list as a non-partisan candidate.

Personal life

He lives in Belgrade with his wife Nataša and daughters Olja and Lenka. On 31 March 2021, Dmitrović announced that he tested positive for

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, adding that he had a fever and that he was not feeling well.

Books

* ''Professor Mišković's notebook'', 2005. * ''Cross on the Cross'', 2016

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dmitrovic, Ratko 1958 births Living people Serbs of Croatia Serbian journalists University of Belgrade alumni University of Zagreb alumni Members of the National Assembly (Serbia) Government ministers of Serbia Serbian nationalists