2008, ISBN: 9781156215791

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Boris Tadi (Serbian Cyrillic: ; born January 15, 1958) is a Serbian politician and the current President of Serbia. A psychologist by profession, he is a leader of the Democratic Party. Tadi was elected to a five-year term on June 27, 2004, and was sworn into office on July 11, 2004. He was Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Boris Tadi (Serbian Cyrillic: ; born January 15, 1958) is a Serbian politician and the current President of Serbia. A psychologist by profession, he is a leader of the Democratic Party. Tadi was elected to a five-year term on June 27, 2004, and was sworn into office on July 11, 2004. He was re-elected for a de facto second five-year term on February 3, 2008 and was sworn in on February 15. Prior to Presidency, Tadi served as the Minister of Telecommunications of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and as the Minister of Defence of Serbia and Montenegro. Boris Tadi advocates full integration of Serbia into the European Union but he also believes Serbia can only join the EU if territorial integrity of Serbia with sovereignty over Kosovo and Metohija is respected. He is seen as a pro-Western leader but who favours well-balanced relations with Russia, the United States, and the EU. Boris Tadi was born in Sarajevo, the capital of the People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a republic within the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. His father, Ljubomir is a philosopher and a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. His mother, Nevenka, is a psychologist. His maternal grandfather and six other relatives were killed by the Croatian Ustae regime during World War II in Jasenovac concentration camp. The Tadi are descendants of the Montenegrin tribe of Old Herzegovina in Piva (pl. Pivljani) and their family venerate Saint John (Serbian tradition Krsna slava of Jovanjdan). His parents were often moving between various cities and had moved to Sarajevo from Paris, where they were pursuing their doctoral studies, only a few days prior to his birth. The Tadi family moved to Belgrade when Boris was three years old, and his father got a job a. More: Books, , Fr-Yugoslavia-Politicians~~Books-LLC, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<