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Nenad Rašić
Nenad Rašić (, ; born 27 January 1973) is a Kosovo Serb politician serving as the minister for communities and returns of Kosovo since 1 December 2022. Previously he served as the minister of labor and social welfare of Kosovo from 2008 to 2014 and as a member of the Assembly of Kosovo from 2014 to 2017. Known for his moderate views, Rašić was one of the founders of the Independent Liberal Party (SLS) and its high-ranking member until his removal from the party in 2013. From 2014 to 2024, he was the president of the Progressive Democratic Party (PDS) which he led until he registered the For Freedom, Justice and Survival (SPO) party. Early life and career Rašić was born on 27 January 1973 in Dobrotin, a village near Lipljan, in the SAP Kosovo, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia. He finished high school in Lipljan and attended university studies in Priština and Belgrade. According to his official biography, Rašić holds a degree in economy. In 1997, he started working in the Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lipljan
Lipjan ( sq-definite, Lipjani) or Lipljan ( sr-Cyrl, Липљан) is a List of cities in Kosovo, town and Municipalities of Kosovo, municipality located in the District of Pristina in Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, the town of Lipjan has 6,870 inhabitants, while the municipality has 57,605 inhabitants. Name The name of the town derives from ''Ulpiana'', a nearby Dardania (Roman province), Dardanian and Roman Empire, Roman era settlement, possibly due to either a ''Ul-'' to ''Li-'' shift seen elsewhere in Roman toponyms.Lafe, Emil (1976). "Toponymes latino-romans sur le territoire de l'albanais". ''Iliria''. Page 116 Ulpiana was named in honor of Roman Emperor Marcus Ulpius Traianus. The neo-Latin form ''Lypenion'' occurs for the first time in a Byzantine text from 1018 AD . The name of the town was slavicised into ''Lipljan'' and albanised into ''Lipjan''. Albanian author Selami Pulaha states that the shift from ''Ulpiana'' to ''Lipjan'' is in accordance with early Alba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola, or Coke, is a cola soft drink manufactured by the Coca-Cola Company. In 2013, Coke products were sold in over 200 countries and territories worldwide, with consumers drinking more than 1.8 billion company beverage servings each day. Coca-Cola ranked No. 94 in the 2024 Fortune 500, ''Fortune'' 500 list of the List of largest companies in the United States by revenue, largest United States corporations by revenue. Based on Interbrand's "best global brand" study of 2023, Coca-Cola was the world's List of most valuable brands, sixth most valuable brand. Originally marketed as a temperance bar, temperance drink and intended as a patent medicine, Coca-Cola was invented in the late 19th century by John Stith Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1888, Pemberton sold the ownership rights to Asa Griggs Candler, a businessman, whose marketing tactics led Coca-Cola to its dominance of the global soft-drink market throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. The name refers to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laplje Selo
Laplje Selo ( sr-Cyrl, Лапље Село, ) is a village in the Graçanicë municipality of Kosovo. Llapllasella was part of the Pristina municipality before the Gračanica municipality was created. It is a Serb enclave situated south of Čaglavica, and has a supermajority of ethnic Serbs. During the Kosovo War, Serbs were displaced, after more than a decade, sixteen families returned to their village, on February 6, 2010. That number has since increased to just over 20 families. Various problems, some of them related to anti-Serb sentiment Anti-Serb sentiment or Serbophobia ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, србофобија, srbofobija, separator=" / ") is a generally negative view of Serbs as an ethnic group. Historically it has been a basis for the persecution of ethnic Serbs. A distinctiv ..., persist for returnees. There is no running water, and harassment takes place, such as cemetery desecration. Demography References {{DEFAULTSORT:Llapllasella Villages in Gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cvetko Veljković
Cvetko Veljković (, ) is a Kosovo Serbs, Kosovo Serb politician serving as a Member of parliament, member of the Assembly of Kosovo since 17 November 2022. He is a member of the Civic Initiative for Freedom, Justice and Survival (GI SPO). Biography Veljković was born in Štrpce, SAP Kosovo, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia. He holds a degree in economy. In May 2020, Veljković was appointed head of the Office for Communities by Prime Minister of Kosovo, Prime Minister Albin Kurti, replacing Nenad Rašić who resigned earlier. Following his appointment, it was revealed that some years earlier Veljković had posted songs dedicated to Ratko Mladić on his Facebook account, raising controversy. Veljković was an MP candidate of Civic Initiative for Freedom, Justice and Survival (GI SPO) in the 2021 Kosovan parliamentary election. On 3 February 2021, Veljković was detained by Kosovo Police, Kosovo police in Štrpce because the member of the local electoral commission Emran Avrdi accuse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Minister
A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but rather the head of government, serving as the chief of the executive under either a monarch or a president in a republican form of government. In parliamentary systems of government (be they constitutional monarchies or parliamentary republics), the Prime Minister (or occasionally a similar post with a different title, such as the Chancellor of Germany) is the most powerful politician and the functional leader of the state, by virtue of commanding the confidence of the legislature. The head of state is typically a ceremonial officer, though they may exercise reserve powers to check the Prime Minister in unusual situations. Under some presidential systems, such as South Korea and Peru, the prime minister is the leader or the most s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rada Trajković
Rada Trajković (; ; born 8 March 1953) is a Kosovo Serb politician, president of the European Movement of Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija who served as the Minister of Family Services in the Government of Serbia and the second cabinet of Mirko Marjanović from 24 March 1998 to 24 October 2000. Biography Early life and career Rada Trajković was born as Rada Vujačić to a Kosovo Serb family on 8 March 1953, in Podujevo. Her father Mato was a merchant and is of Montenegrin Serb heritage, while her mother Radojka was a housewife. She has a brother Radomir. She finished elementary school in Podujevo. After high school, she enrolled in mathematics studies, but after marrying Veselin Trajković, she transferred to the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Priština. When she graduated, she got a job at the Oral Clinic at the Clinical Hospital Center in Pristina. After specialization, she became the head of the Laryngology Department. She received her doctorate in early detecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gračanica, Kosovo
Gračanica ( sr-cyr, Грачаница) or Graçanicë ( sq-definite, Graçanica), is a town and municipality located in Pristina District in Kosovo. As of 2024, the town has a population of 18,486 inhabitants. It is centered around the Gračanica Monastery, ten kilometers east of Pristina. The 1999 Kosovo War and its aftermath transformed Gračanica from a sleepy village into an administrative center serving the needs of the 75,000 Kosovo Serbs living south of the Ibar River. After the 2013 Brussels Agreement, the municipality was expected to become part of a proposed Community of Serb Municipalities, however the agreement was never implemented as it was deemed unconstitutional. The town is also known for being the location of Gračanica Monastery, one of the richest Serbian medieval monuments from the 14th century. History Pope Benedict IX mentioned the village as ''Grazaniza'' in a letter from 1303. It was mentioned in King Stefan Milutin's founding charter of the Gračani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brussels Agreement (2013)
The First Agreement of Principles Governing the Normalisation of Relations, informally known as the Brussels Agreement ( / ''Briselski sporazum'', ), is an agreement to normalize relations between the governments of Serbia and Kosovo. The agreement, negotiated and concluded in Brussels under the auspices of the European Union, was signed on 19 April 2013. Negotiations were led by Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dačić and Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi, mediated by EU High Representative Catherine Ashton. The government of Serbia does not recognize Kosovo as a sovereign state, but began normalising relations with the government of Kosovo as a result of the agreement. In Belgrade, the agreement was criticized by protestors as a convalidation of Kosovo independence. Background Following the Kosovo War and the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, Kosovo (as part of Serbia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) was placed under United Nations administration under UNSC Resol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serb List (Kosovo)
The Serb List (; ) is a Kosovo Serbs, Serb minority List of political parties in Kosovo, political party in Kosovo. It was the dominant Serb party in politics of Kosovo, Kosovo politics, claiming all ten of Assembly of Kosovo, Assembly seats reserved for the community, from 2014 until all its members resigned and withdrew in 2022. The party retains close links to the Government of Serbia, led by the Serbian Progressive Party and President of Serbia, President Aleksandar Vučić. History The combined number of votes for the Serb List was 38,169 (5.30%) at the 2014 Kosovan parliamentary election. On 17 September 2014, the Serb List announced that they would join the government cabinet only if Vetëvendosje was not part of it. Aleksandar Jablanović, the Minister for Returns and Communities in the Government of Kosovo, was dismissed on 3 February 2015, after the opposition demanded his dismissal after he called the group of ethnic Albanians who attacked Serb IDPs in Gjakova with ston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Kosovan Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Kosovo on 8 June 2014, after incumbent Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi announced his intention to hold elections. On 7 May, the Assembly was dissolved and President Atifete Jahjaga confirmed the Election date as 8 June 2014. Results Aftermath Foreign media viewed the election results as "inconclusive". According to the Constitution, "If no one challenges the election results within 24 hours, parliament will have 30 days to convene. The prime minister-designate will then have 15 days to form a government that has the backing of a majority of deputies." Incumbent Prime Minister Hashim Thaci and the PDK were expected to be the first to form government, having won a plurality of the seats in the election. However, an opposition coalition of the LDK, AAK, and NISMA sought to form a governing coalition, arguing that together they could form a majority of the seats in parliament. When parliament resumed in July, the opposition coalition attemp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Third Thaçi Cabinet
Third or 3rd may refer to: Numbers * 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3 * , a fraction of one third * 1⁄60 of a ''second'', i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system Places * 3rd Street (other) 3rd Street or Third Street may refer to: * 3rd Street, Los Angeles * 3rd Street (Manhattan) * Third Street (Hong Kong) * Third Street (San Francisco) ** T Third Street, Muni Metro line in San Francisco * N3RD Street (Philadelphia) * Third Street, ... * Third Avenue (other) * Highway 3 Music Music theory *Interval number of three in a musical interval **Major third, a third spanning four semitones **Minor third, a third encompassing three half steps, or semitones **Neutral third, wider than a minor third but narrower than a major third **Augmented third, an interval of five semitones **Diminished third, produced by narrowing a minor third by a chromatic semitone *Third (chord), chord member a third above the root *D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Organization For Migration
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is a United Nations related organization working in the field of migration. The organization implements operational assistance programmes for Human migration, migrants, including internally displaced persons, refugees, and migrant workers. The International Organization for Migration is a UN agency based in Geneva. Its director general is Amy E. Pope. History Historical context and predecessor organizations (1951 to 1989) The International Organization for Migration (IOM) was founded in 1951 in response to the large number of internally displaced persons and war refugees in Europe after the World War II, Second World War. The IOM was initially a logistics agency that organized the transport of nearly one million migrants in the 1950s and has undergone several name changes since its inception. The transition from the Provisional Intergovernmental Committee for the Movement of Migrants from Europe (PICMME) in 1951 to the Intergov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
