Aleksandar Ilić is a professor of literature at Belgrade University. He was appointed the Ambassador of Serbia and Montenegro

Serbia and Montenegro

Serbia and Montenegro was a country in southeastern Europe, formed from two former republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia : Serbia and Montenegro. Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, it was established in 1992 as a federation called the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia...

 in the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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 between 2001 and 2005.

In December 1989 he became an active member of the Founding Committee of the Democratic Party

The Founding Committee of the Democratic Party

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. The Democratic Party

Democratic Party (Serbia)

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 was the first opposition, non-communist party in Serbia. In 1990 he was the first editor of the newspaper Demokratija, the first opposition newspaper in Serbia

Serbia

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