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Žika Petrović
Živorad "Žika" Petrović ( sr-cyr, Живорад Жика Петровић; 1939 – 25 April 2000) was a Serbian engineer and business executive. He was assassinated in the spring of 2000. At the time of his death, Petrović was the CEO of Serbian flag carrier Jat Airways. The crime remains unsolved to this day. Petrović graduated from the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Transport in 1968. He became Jat's CEO in 1992. He was a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), a political party headed at the time by Slobodan Milošević. Murder On Tuesday night, 25 April 2000, around 21:30 CET, Petrović was killed by unknown assassin(s) in front of his parents' home at 20 Jaša Prodanović Street in Belgrade. Petrović was reportedly parking his JAT-issued metallic gray Audi in front of the house when two assailants killed him from behind with four bullets to the head and back. A B92 reporter on the scene counted five bullet shells, while ''Blic'' reported that more than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Požarevac
Požarevac ( sr-cyr, Пожаревац, ) is a list of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative centre of the Braničevo District in eastern Serbia. It is located between three rivers: Danube, Great Morava and Mlava and below the hill Čačalica (208m). As of 2022, the city has a population of 42,530 while the city administrative area has 68,648 inhabitants. Name In Serbian language, Serbian, the city is known as ''Požarevac'' (Пожаревац), in Romanian language, Romanian as ''Pojarevăț'' or ''Podu Lung'', in Turkish language, Turkish as ''Pasarofça'', in German language, German as ''Passarowitz'', and in Hungarian language, Hungarian as ''Pozsarevác''. The name means "Conflagration, fire-town" in Serbian language, Serbian (In this case, the word "fire" is used in the sense of a disaster). History Ancient times In ancient times, the area was inhabited by Thracians, Dacians, and Celts. There was a city at this locality known as ''Margus (city), Margus'' in Lati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vlajko Stojiljković
Vlajko Stojiljković ( sr-cyr, Влајко Стојиљковић; 13 March 1937 – 13 April 2002) was a Serbian politician. He served as the Minister of Internal Affairs in the Government of Serbia from 1997 to 2000. He also served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia from 1997 to 1998. He was a member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia and the Socialist Party of Serbia from its founding until his death in 2002. On 24 May 1999, he was accused with crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war. Death On 11 April 2002, the day the ''Law on Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal'' was passed, he shot himself on the steps of the House of the National Assembly of Serbia in Belgrade. In his farewell letter given to the Serbian Radical Party MP Filip Stojanović and read by Aleksandar Vučić in front of the media, he stated that he's: "protesting against the members of the puppet regime of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia ... because of the destru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1939 Births
This year also marks the start of the World War II, Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history. Events Events related to World War II have a "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 ** Coming into effect in Nazi Germany of: *** The Protection of Young Persons Act (Germany), Protection of Young Persons Act, passed on April 30, 1938, the Working Hours Regulations. *** The small businesses obligation to maintain adequate accounting. *** The Jews name change decree. ** With his traditional call to the New Year in Nazi Germany, Führer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler addresses the members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). ** The Hewlett-Packard technology and scientific instruments manufacturing company is founded by Bill Hewlett and David Packard, in a garage in Palo Alto, California, considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley. ** Philipp Etter takes over as President of the Swiss Confederation. ** The Third Soviet Five Year P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Unsolved Murders (2000–present)
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole". Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of '' The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vuk Drašković
Vuk Drašković ( sr-cyrl, Вук Драшковић, ; born 29 November 1946) is a Serbian writer and politician. He is the co-founder and former leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement, serving as president from 1990 to 2024. He also served as the Kosovo War, war-time Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999 during the rule of Slobodan Milošević and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Serbia), Minister of Foreign Affairs of both Serbia and Montenegro and Serbia from 2004 to 2007. He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law in 1968. From 1969 to 1980, he worked as a journalist in the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug. He was a member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia and worked as the chief of staff of the Yugoslav President Mika Špiljak. Early life and career Drašković was born in the small village of Medja in the Banat region to a family of settlers from Herzegovina. He was three months old when his mother, Stoja Nikitović, died. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Stambolić
Ivan Stambolić (; 5 November 1936 – 25 August 2000) was a Serbian politician who served as the president of the League of Communists of Serbia (SKS) from 1984 to 1986. A prominent member of SKS, he also served as prime minister of Serbia from 1978 to 1982 and as president of Serbia from 1986 to 1987. Stambolić was the mentor of Slobodan Milošević whom he also nominated as his successor to the position of the president of SKS. Milošević would, however, adopt populist positions and dismiss Stambolić and his allies in 1987. Stambolić retired from politics but remained in contact with opposition politicians during Milošević's rule in the 1990s. Stambolić was persuaded by the Democratic Opposition of Serbia to run against Milošević in the September 2000 general election, however, Stambolić disappeared in August 2000. It was later revealed that he was assassinated on the orders of Milošević. His uncle was politician Petar Stambolić. Career Born in village of Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavle Bulatović
Pavle Bulatović (; 13 December 1948 – 7 February 2000) was a Serbia and Montenegro, Yugoslav Montenegrin politician. Bulatović served as Interior Minister of Montenegro from 1990 to 1992, then as Federal Minister of Interior of FR Yugoslavia and as Ministry of Defence (Yugoslavia), Minister of Defence of the Serbia and Montenegro, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1993 until his assassination in 2000. Bulatović represented the Socialist People's Party of Montenegro which was then allied in government with the Socialist Party of Serbia, led by Slobodan Milošević. Death Bulatović was shot dead in Belgrade on the evening of 7 February 2000. The shooting took place at the restaurant of FK Rad in the Belgrade suburb of Banjica. He later died at the Military Medical Academy (Serbia), Military Medical Academy in Belgrade. Immediately after the killing, the Yugoslavian government went into an emergency session and declared that Bulatovic had been the victim of terrorism. , his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoran Uskoković
Zoran ( sr-Cyrl, Зоран) is a common South Slavic name, the masculine form of Zora, which means ''dawn, daybreak''. The name is especially common in Serbia, North Macedonia, Croatia and to some degree in Slovenia. Notable people with this given name include: *Zoran Bečić, Bosnian Serb actor *Zoran Baldovaliev, Macedonian football player *Zoran Ćirjaković, Serbian journalist *Zoran Cvijanović, Serbian actor * Zoran Ćirić, Serbian writer * Zoran Đerić, Bosnian Serb politician *Zoran Đinđić, Serbian politician *Zoran Dukić, Croatian classical guitarist *Zoran Džorlev, Macedonian violinist *Zoran Erić, Serbian composer *Zoran Erceg, Serbian basketball player *Zoran Filipović, Montenegrin football coach *Zoran G. Jančić, Bosnian Croat pianist *Zoran Janjetov, Serbian comic artist * *Zoran Jovanovski, Macedonian football player *Zoran Jolevski, Macedonian Ambassador to the US *Zoran Knežević (astronomer), Serbian astronomer *Zoran Knežević (politician), Serb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Branislav Lainović
Branislav () is a Czech, Croatian, Russian, Slovak, Serbian, Slovene and Ukrainian given name. It also appears in Polish as Bronisław, in Russian as ''Bronislav,'' and Ukrainian as ''Boronyslav.'' The name is derived from the Slavic elements braniti, or broni-ti (''to protect'' in infinitive), that is brani (''that who protects'') and slav-a (''glory'') and means "warrior", "defender of the glory". In some contexts, the anagrams Barnislav and Nabrislav (Nabriša) is used. A short form of the name is Brano. Nicknames Branko, Branio, Broněk, Broniek, Slávek, Slavo, Bane, Brane, Braňo, Braniša, Bruno. Branislav in other languages *Belarusian: ''Браніслаў / Branisłaŭ (Branislaw)'' *Czech: ''Bronislav'' or ''Branislav'' *Croatian: ''Branislav'' *Lithuanian: ''Bronislovas'' *Polish: ''Bronisław'' *Russian: ''Бронислав (Bronislav)'' *Serbian: ''Бранислав / Branislav'', ''Бранисав / Branisav'' or ''Бранко / Branko'' *Slovak: ''Branisla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
