11 March 2026 marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Slobodan Milošević. On this occasion Russian-Serbian Friendship Center (official representation of Russian-Balkan Center of Business Partnership and Culture in Mariupol) held organized the roundtable discussion on the topic ‘The role of a personality (case of S. Milošević)’.
Students took an active part in the event: they gave presentations analysing the political activities of S. Milošević. An important topic of discussion was the Hague Tribunal, which has become a symbol of the political and legal weakness of the West. The discussion on the possibilities of preserving Yugoslavia in the complex geopolitical realities of the 1990s was particularly interesting.
The students expressed their views on the issues, showing interest in Slobodan Milošević’s personality, as well as in the events and processes of that time. The event showed that the topic of the break-up of Yugoslavia remains relevant to this day.
Slobodan Milošević (1941 – 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian statesman and politician, president of Serbia, first within Yugoslavia, then within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He was overthrown in 2000. Slobodan Milošević was indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He died in 2006 due to heart problems before the tribunal was completed.
