Nikola Šainović

Nikola Šainović ( Serbian - Cyrillic Никола Шаиновић ; born December 7, 1948 in Bor , Serbia ) is a Serbian politician. In 1993/94 he was Prime Minister of Serbia (at that time still part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia), then until 2000 Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia .

Life

Šainović graduated from the University of Ljubljana with a degree in chemistry in 1977 . He was a member of the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia , in 1978 he became chairman of the city ​​council of his hometown Bor. At the end of the 1980s he was a member of the parliament of SR Serbia , in 1989 he became State Secretary for Industry and Energy, in 1991 Minister for Mining and Energy and Deputy Prime Minister Serbia.

He was a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia and from 1994 to 2000, after holding various ministerial posts, he was Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia . He was sentenced on February 26, 2009 by the UN War Crimes Tribunal to 22 years in prison for crimes against humanity and war crimes in the war in Kosovo . The appeals process ended in 2014 with an eighteen-year prison sentence.

Web links

• profile
• biographical information on Blic online, May 3, 2002
• Biographical information on Novosti online, January 7, 2003

Individual evidence

1. ^ Acquittal for the former Serbian president , FAZ.net, February 26, 2009.
2. ^ Serbs condemned by the UN tribunal , NZZ , January 25, 2014, p. 2.