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A man said to me: You are a Serbian nationalist, as if it were an insult. I am. I am a nationalist. Serbian. I won't be a Belgian one. It just means I love my people.
Because of an article of the Croatian journalist Boris Dežulović called "Let's save Serbian shrines", Vesna Bratić called him "a citizen, a quasi-leftist" and "Ustasha garbage". [8] She was also the target of criticism after she posted a photo on her Facebook profile with the description: "Woman is a woman, even when she is a Chetnik". [8]
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Ne damo Crnu Goru, lit. 'We won't give up Montenegro', is a moderate right, pro-EU, pro-Serbian Orthodox Church, political organization in Montenegro. It became an influential civil and political movement during the 2020 religion law protests. The group was founded by Montenegrin professors and intellectuals in support of the Serbian Orthodox Church-led protests after a controversial law targeted the legal status and the property of the Church. Its founder and first chairman was university professor Zdravko Krivokapić, who led the opposition party For the Future of Montenegro at the 2020 parliamentary election.
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Events in the year 2022 in Montenegro.
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Vesna Bratić Весна Братић | |
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Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of Montenegro | |
In office 4 December 2020 –28 April 2022 | |
Prime Minister | Zdravko Krivokapić |
Preceded by | Damir Šehović(Education) Sanja Damjanović (Science) Aleksandar Bogdanović (Culture) Nikola Janović (Sports) |
Succeeded by | Miomir Vojinović |
Personal details | |
Born | Trebinje,SR Bosnia and Herzegovina,SFR Yugoslavia | 25 May 1977
Nationality | Serbian |
Political party | UCG (2023-present) |
Other political affiliations | We won't give up Montenegro (2020–present) |
Alma mater | University of Montenegro University of Belgrade |
Occupation | Philology professor,politician |
Vesna Bratić (Serbian Cyrillic :ВеснаБратић;born 25 May 1977 in Trebinje [1] ) is a Montenegrin politician.
Vesna Bratićwas born on 25 May 1977 to a Herzegovinian Serb family in Trebinje which at that time was a part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. She finished middle and high school in Bileća and graduated in 2000 at the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Montenegro in Nikšić. She was employed as a teaching associate at the Institute of Foreign Languages in 2003. [2] She received her master's degree in 2007 from the Faculty of Philology at the University of Belgrade,with a thesis in which she developed a comparative analysis of the narrative process of Aleksandar Tišma and William Faulkner.
She received her PhD from the same faculty in 2012 with the thesis "Images of America in the Works of Sam Shepard and David Memet". [2] In 2013,she was elected assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy,University of Montenegro in Nikšić. She was elected associate professor in 2018. In parallel,she teaches English at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Montenegrin capital Podgorica,at the same university. [3] She received Montenegrin citizenship in 2012. [4]
She was one of the founders of the non-governmental organization "We won't give up Montenegro" (НедамоЦрнуГору/ Ne damo Crnu Goru),which was founded in July 2020 by university professors in Montenegro and headed by Zdravko Krivokapić. She succeeded Krivokapic as president of the NGO,after he was elected leader of the opposition list for the August 2020 parliamentary election. [5] On 4 December 2020,the Parliament of Montenegro elected her Minister of Education,Science,Culture and Sports in the Government of Montenegro and the cabinet of Zdravko Krivokapić. [6] [7]
Vesna Bratićis a self-declared Serbian nationalist: [8]