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State Security Directorate (Serbia)
The State Security Directorate ( sr, Ресор државне безбедности, Resor državne bezbednosti; abbr. РДБ / RDB), or simply State Security ( sr, Државна безбедност, Državna bezbednost; abbr. ДБ / DB), was the security agency within the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Serbia), Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia tasked with protecting the country from internal threats. History The State Security Directorate was formed in March 1991 after the dissolution of Directorate for State Security (Yugoslavia), State Security Service (SDB). According to the indictment in the series of trials before the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the ''Serbian Special Forces'', also known as ''Serbian Paramilitaries'', were secretly established by or with the assistance of the State Security Directorate. Among those were Serb Volunteer Guard (Arkan's Tigers), Special Operations Unit (Serbia), Special Operations Unit (Red Berets) and Scorpions (p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Directorate For State Security (Yugoslavia)
The State Security Service, also known by its original name as the Directorate for State Security, was the secret police organization of Communist Yugoslavia. It was at all times best known by the acronym UDBA, which is derived from the organization's original name in the Serbo-Croatian language: "''Uprava državne bezbednosti''" ("Directorate for State Security"). The acronyms SDB (Serbian) or SDS (Croatian) were used officially after the organization was renamed into "State Security Service". In its latter decades it was composed of eight semi-independent secret police organizations—one for each of the six Yugoslav federal republics and two for the autonomous provinces—coordinated by the central federal headquarters in the capital of Belgrade. Although it operated with more restraint than secret police agencies in the communist states of Eastern Europe, the UDBA was a feared tool of control. It is alleged that the UDBA was responsible for the "eliminations" of dozens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slobodan Milošević
Slobodan Milošević (, ; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the president of Serbia within Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1997 (originally the Socialist Republic of Serbia, a constituent republic of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, from 1989 to 1992) and president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000. Formerly a high-ranking member of the League of Communists of Serbia (SKS) during the 1980s, he led the Socialist Party of Serbia from its foundation in 1990 until 2003. Born in Požarevac, he studied law at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law and joined the League of Socialist Youth of Yugoslavia as a student. During the 1960s he served as an advisor to mayor of Belgrade Branko Pešić, and was later appointed chairman of Tehnogas and Beobanka, roles which he served until the 1980s. Milošević rose to power in 1987 by promoting populist and nationalist views, arguing for the reduction of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Agencies Established In 1991
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as well as a mechanism for determining policy. In many countries, the government has a kind of constitution, a statement of its governing principles and philosophy. While all types of organizations have governance, the term ''government'' is often used more specifically to refer to the approximately 200 independent national governments and subsidiary organizations. The major types of political systems in the modern era are democracies, monarchies, and authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. Historically prevalent forms of government include monarchy, aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, theocracy, and tyranny. These forms are not always mutually exclusive, and mixed go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 Establishments In Yugoslavia
File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Philippines, making it the second-largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century; MTS Oceanos sinks off the coast of South Africa, but the crew notoriously abandons the vessel before the passengers are rescued; Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Soviet flag is lowered from the Kremlin for the last time and replaced with the flag of the Russian Federation; The United States and soon-to-be dissolved Soviet Union sign the START I Treaty; A tropical cyclone strikes Bangladesh, killing nearly 140,000 people; Lauda Air Flight 004 crashes after one of its thrust reversers activates during the flight; A United States-led coalition initiates Operation Desert Storm to remove Iraq and Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, 300x300px, thumb rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Security Directorate (FR Yugoslavia)
The Security Directorate ( sr, Управа безбедности, Uprava bezbednosti) was the security and intelligence branch of the Armed Forces of Serbia and Montenegro. History When the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was formed on 20 May 1992, the Security Directorate was moved from the Federal Secretariat of National Defence to the General Staff of the newly-formed armed forces. In 2002, it was transformed into the Military Security Service (''Vojna služba bezbednosti'') and was transferred back from the General Staff to the Federal Ministry of Defence. In 2004, it was reorganized and split into the Military Security Agency and the Military Intelligence Agency The Military Intelligence Agency ( sr, Војнообавештајна Агенција / Vojnoobaveštajna Agencija, abbr. VOA) is the military intelligence agency of the Ministry of Defence of Serbia. The Military Intelligence Agency is an exp .... See also * Counterintelligence Service ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Military Intelligence Agency
The Military Intelligence Agency ( sr, Војнообавештајна Агенција / Vojnoobaveštajna Agencija, abbr. VOA) is the military intelligence agency of the Ministry of Defence of Serbia. The Military Intelligence Agency is an expert and governing body of the intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Serbia and makes an integral part of the security system of the Republic of Serbia. It is tasked with and responsible for providing information, as well as representing and protecting the interests of the Republic of Serbia abroad. It carries out its tasks through activities pertaining to military intelligence and military diplomacy. Its role is similar to that of the U.S. DIA or the UK DIS but its Director reports directly to the Minister of Defence. Mission and objectives The main mission is to provide intelligence support to the state government of the Republic of Serbia and Serbian Armed Forces as well as to their members home and abroad. The competences, the ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Military Security Agency
The Military Security Agency ( sr, Војнобезбедносна агенција / Vojnobezbednosna agencija, abbr. ВБА / VBA) is a Serbian military security and counterintelligence agency under the Ministry of Defence. The Military Security Agency directive is to provide security to the defense system (planning, organizing and realization of tasks and activities which pertain to the counterintelligence and security function). Agency missions and objectives The Military Security Agency is tasked with detecting, following, stopping, suppressing and intercepting threats. These tasks are: * Intelligence and other activities of foreign services, organizations and persons which are directed against the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Serbia, * Internal and international terrorism and subversive activities directed against commands, units and institutions of MOD and SAF. * Detects-investigates-documents * Criminal acts directed against the Constitution and the secu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Security Directorate (Serbia)
The State Security Directorate ( sr, Ресор државне безбедности, Resor državne bezbednosti; abbr. РДБ / RDB), or simply State Security ( sr, Државна безбедност, Državna bezbednost; abbr. ДБ / DB), was the security agency within the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Serbia), Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia tasked with protecting the country from internal threats. History The State Security Directorate was formed in March 1991 after the dissolution of Directorate for State Security (Yugoslavia), State Security Service (SDB). According to the indictment in the series of trials before the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the ''Serbian Special Forces'', also known as ''Serbian Paramilitaries'', were secretly established by or with the assistance of the State Security Directorate. Among those were Serb Volunteer Guard (Arkan's Tigers), Special Operations Unit (Serbia), Special Operations Unit (Red Berets) and Scorpions (p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Security Council (Serbia)
National Security Council of the Republic of Serbia () is the state body of Serbia which considers issues of importance for national security and directs the works of the security services. The Law on the Fundamentals of Organizing Security Services from 2007 legally defined the work of this body. Formation Before the council was established in today's form, there were several unsuccessful attempts to form a body to bring together key decision-makers in the security sector. In 2000, the FRY government formed the Defense and Security Council, headed by the then prime minister and defence minister, but the body did not interfere in the affairs of the Supreme Defense Council, but was of an advisory nature. The next attempt was the establishment of the State Security Council by a decree of the government of Zoran Đinđić, but it did not last long either. The first government of Vojislav Koštunica established such a council in January 2006 with a decree in order to establish bette ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 Special Operations Unit Mutiny (Serbia)
On 9 November 2001, soldiers of the Special Operations Unit (JSO), an elite special forces police unit of the FR Yugoslav State Security Service (RDB), also known as the ''Red Berets'', raised a mutiny in response to the arrest and extradition of the Banović brothers, indicted for war crimes before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the group's opposition to the Government of Serbia headed by Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić. The mutiny ended on 17 November 2001 after certain concessions had been given to the Unit and the key figures in the State Security Service were dismissed. The mutiny was the forerunner of major political upheavals in Serbia, one of which was the assassination of Zoran Đinđić in 2003. Background Overthrow of Milošević During the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in October 2000, the Special Operations Unit (JSO) played a significant role. The Unit's commander Milorad Ulemek made an agreement with opposition l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overthrow Of Slobodan Milošević
The overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, began after the presidential election on 24 September and culminated in the downfall of Slobodan Milošević's government on 5 October 2000. It is sometimes referred to as the 5 October Overthrow ( sr, Петооктобарска револуција, Petooktobarska revolucija, lit=The October 5 Revolution) and sometimes colloquially called the (), after one of the most memorable episodes from the day-long protest in which a heavy equipment operator charged the Radio Television of Serbia building, considered to be symbolic of the Milošević regime's propaganda. Prelude Milošević's rule has been described by observers as authoritarian or autocratic, as well as kleptocratic, with numerous accusations of electoral frauds, political assassinations, suppression of media freedom and police brutality. He became the first sitting head of state to be charged with war crimes. His role in the Yugoslav Wars led to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
