Markovich, Miriana

Miriana Markovich was born in the small Serbian town of Pozharevac , 80 km from Belgrade , from childhood she was familiar with Slobodan Milosevic, who lived nearby. An old linden still grows in the courtyard of his house, under which young Slobo first kissed his future wife. Now under this linden lies Milosevic’s grave.

Miriana Markovich almost did not know her mother - the communist Vera Miletich . There was World War II , and on October 5, 1943, 23-year-old Vera Miletić was arrested in Belgrade by a collaborative police unit and subsequently shot ^[4] . In memory of Mother of the World, she constantly appeared on people with a living flower in her hair ^[5] . Father - Dragoslav Markovich , political commissar under the General Staff of the People's Liberation Movement of Yugoslavia in Serbia, People's Hero of Yugoslavia.

Biographers note that Mira Markovich had a tremendous influence on her husband, it was she who made of the person who was predicted the career of the head of the railway station - a major party and statesman. It was Markovich who helped Milosevic make important political and military decisions during the collapse of Yugoslavia and the confrontation with the West. Despite the fact that in public-state forums Markovich and Milosevic, as leaders of different parties, usually sat at different ends of the hall, the observers were particularly amazed at Mira's unusual spiritual proximity to her husband: “she was Slobodan’s soul, there was his alter ego, his another “I.” Her shadow stood behind him even when Mira herself was not nearby ^[6] .

Prior to the outbreak of hostilities by NATO against Yugoslavia , experts say, Markovich was the chief theorist of the United Balkans - a new alliance proposed by her in the Balkans, and not only those countries that were part of the SFRY . Markovic's plan provided for a union or federation of Balkan states (from Croatia to Bulgaria) under Serbian hegemony. Outlines of an unrealized project Markovich exist in print. They are the diary entries she kept from 1992 to 1994. Later, these diary entries (with copyright exceptions) with the consent of Markovich herself were published as her "Diaries" in the Italian publishing house Tullio Pironti ^[6] .

In 1994, Markovich founded the Yugoslav Left Party. Her political views are characterized as nationalistic , at different stages of her biography ranging from moderate to radical. To illustrate the views of Mira Markovich, a quote from her personal diary is characteristic:

If the Serbian and Croatian peoples entrusted the mandate for representation on their behalf to people who did not consider their people to be losers, who did not consider them to be the avengers, and who did not live up to Yugoslavia as a kind of utopia, the war would immediately or, in any case, very quickly would be terminated and Yugoslavia would be an ethnically pure country.

- From the diary of Mira Markovich. Purge in Yugoslavia ^[5] .

The collapse of the Dayton Peace Agreement , 1995, led to the international isolation of Milosevic. As a party leader and the president’s wife, Markovich develops an ideological justification for the inevitable confrontation with NATO , takes control of state television, which was directed by their daughter Maria Milosevic, influenced the analytics and propaganda rhetoric of the daily newspapers Politika and Politika Express ^{[5 ]} .

During the period of active military operations of NATO against Yugoslavia (March – June 1999), together with her husband, she was bombed in Belgrade.

Scientific activity

Miriana Markovich is the author of more than 100 works in the field of the theory of sociology, socio-political development of Yugoslav society and the modern world.

Academic degree - “Doctor of Sociology.” For some time she taught sociology at the University of Belgrade .

Visit-professor of the sociological faculty of Moscow State University . In 1996 she was awarded the title of Honorary Professor of Moscow State University - "for his great contribution to the development of sociological science, the training of specialists in sociologists, the strengthening and development of cooperation between scientists from Russia and Yugoslavia" ^[7] .

After Milosevic’s removal from power

After Milosevic’s removal from power, arrest, and his secret surrender by Serbian Democrats, led by new Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, in 2001 to the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia , which Markovic called “the culmination of a national moral crisis, ” she still lived in Belgrade for several years. Since 2000, Russia has become the second home for Mira, where she often flew to her son Marco, who was hiding here from the persecution of the new Serbian authorities. Forcible removal of Milosevic to The Hague, Markovich assessed as the revenge of the Western states for his policy, "an independent course and resistance to the colonization of the country ." I admired the courageous behavior of her husband in prison and at the meetings of the tribunal, regularly visited him in custody. In 2003, three years before her husband’s death in a prison cell from a heart attack, she publicly stated that the treatment prescribed by Milosevic as a cardiologist “ required much more prompt adjustment ”, and the allegations of the official representatives of the tribunal that the prison had necessary medical supervision, called " an absolute lie " ^[8] .

Markovich assessed the role of Russia in the story of the arrest of Milosevic and his extradition to the Hague Tribunal as passive and indecisive, directly stated in the press that she expected more from Russia ^[8] .

After Milosevic’s death in The Hague in 2006, the charges against her of involvement in the murder of a journalist and economic crimes, Mira Markovich was forced to leave Serbia and settled in Russia and was unable to come to her hometown for her husband’s funeral ^[9] .

After the death of Milosevic

After 2003, Markovich lived in exile in Russia ^[10] . The Serbian authorities issued an international arrest warrant. She was accused of fraud; The charges were spread through Interpol , but Russian authorities refused to arrest her. In December 2006, nine months after the death of her husband during his imprisonment in The Hague, a Serbian court ordered Markovich to be arrested on charges of ordering the murder of journalist Slavko Kuruvius. ^[11] In 2007, the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs demanded that Markovich be returned to Russia from his homeland, but by that time, together with his son Marko Milosevic, they had already received refugee status in Russia. In 2008, the Serbian prosecutor announced that Markovic could be tried in absentia ^[12] .

In 2008, the Russian authorities finally refused to extradite Markovich and her son Marko Milosevic to Serbia ^[13] .

Daughter Maria Milosevic and grandson Marco live in Montenegro .

She died on April 14, 2019 in Moscow after a serious long illness ^{[2] [3] [14]} .