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Kostunica, Vojislav

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Koštunica, Vojislav (voi`släv kôsht`nētsä), 1944–, Serbian politician, president of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (y
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 (2000–03) and prime minister of Serbia Serbia (sûr`bēə), Serbian Srbija
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 (2004–) b. Belgrade. A constitutional lawyer and liberal anticommunist, he lectured at his Belgrade Univ., but was fired (1974) for his criticism of Tito Tito, Josip Broz (yô`sĭp brôz tē`tō), 1892–1980, Yugoslav Communist leader, marshal of Yugoslavia.
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. A free-speech advocate in the 1980s, he co-founded (1989) Yugoslavia's Democratic party and later founded (1992) the breakaway Democratic party of Serbia. A member of the Yugoslavian parliament (1990–97) during the years of Yugoslavia's breakup and ethnic warfare, he supported a primary role for Serbia within Yugoslavia while opposing the policies of Slobodan Milošević Milošević, Slobodan (slôbô`dän mēlô`shəvĭch')
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. In 2000, a 18-party opposition coalition picked Koštunica as its presidential candidate, and he defeated Milošević, becoming president of Yugoslavia.

As president, Koštunica rejected the idea of trying Milošević (or others involved in the atrocities of the 1990s) for war crimes. He also tried but failed to preserve the union between Serbia and Montenegro, the last remaining Yugoslavian republics, and it was ultimately dissolved in 2006. In 2003 he was elected to the Serbian parliament and became (2004) prime minister of Serbia, heading a center-right coalition. While continuing to oppose the Hague tribunal process for prosecuting Yugoslavian war crimes, Koštunica has moved to fight corruption and unemployment, worked toward Serbian membership in the European Union, and strongly resisted any solution to the Kosovo Kosovo Field, Serbo-Croatian Kosovo Polje [field of the black birds], the Turks under Sultan Murad I defeated Serbia and its Bosnian, Montenegrin, Bulgarian, and other allies in 1389.
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 problem that would lead to the region's independence.



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