Ratko Dmitrović
{{Short description|Serbian journalist and politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Ratko Dmitrović
| native_name = Ратко Дмитровић
| native_name_lang = sr
| image = Ratko Dmitrovic-mc.rs (cropped 2).jpg
| caption = Dmitrović in 2013
| office = Minister of Families and Demographics
| primeminister = Ana Brnabić
| term_start = 28 October 2020
| term_end = 26 October 2022
| predecessor = Position established
| successor = Darija Kisić Tepavčević
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1958}}
| birth_place = Komogovina, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
| alma_mater = University of Belgrade
University of Zagreb
| children = 2
| party = Independent
| occupation = {{hlist|Journalist|politician}}
| birth_name = Radomir Dmitrović
}}
Radomir Dmitrović ({{Lang-sr-Cyrl|Радомир Дмитровић}}; born 1958) is a Serbian conservative journalist, publicist and politician who served as minister of families and demographics from 2020 to 2022.
Biography
= Early life and career =
Dmitrović was born in 1958 in Komogovina, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia. He finished high school in Kostajnica. He studied law, journalism and art history in Belgrade and Zagreb. He began his professional career as a journalist in 1981. He worked for a regional paper whose headquarters were in Sisak. He soon became a correspondent for Politika for Croatia, and then in the second half of the eighties he moved to Zagreb, from where he reported. While working in Politika, he was also a journalist for NIN. He came to Belgrade in August 1991 and started working for the Radio Television of Serbia (RTS). He worked for RTS until December 1993, when he left to start his own newspaper.{{Cite web|date=2013-06-14|title=Ratko Dmitrovic: Nema pravne drzave bez dobrih medija|url=http://noviput.rs/intervju/ratko-dmitrovic-nema-pravne-drzave-bez-dobrih-medija/|access-date=2020-10-22|website=Novi Put|language=sr-RS}}
At the beginning of 1994, he started the weekly paper called Argument,{{Cite web|last=Сведок|title=Сведок: Ратко Дмитровић: Отворено писмо Драгану Ђиласу|url=http://www.nspm.rs/hronika/ratko-dmitrovic-otvoreno-pismo-draganu-djilasu.html?alphabet=l|access-date=2020-10-22|website=Нова српска политичка мисао|language=sr-rs}} of which he was the editor-in-chief, and which was published until 1999. After the Overthrow of Slobodan Milošević, he became an advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia Nebojsa Čović.{{Cite web|date=2016-03-06|title=Kolektivna naplata jednog ličnog poniženja » nvsh.hr|url=http://nvsh.hr/?p=702|access-date=2020-10-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306132632/http://nvsh.hr/?p=702|archive-date=2016-03-06}} He worked as the editor-in-chief of the Frankfurt "News" for five years. Since 2008, he has been a regular columnist for the newspaper Pečat on the topic of Serbo-Croatian relations.{{Cite web|title=Српски покрет Двери|url=http://dverisrpske.com/sr/prenosimo/3499-zasto-je-smenjen-ratko-dmitrovic.html|access-date=2020-10-22|website=dverisrpske.com}} He was the general director and editor-in-chief of the company "Novosti" from. He was appointed acting director unanimously by the Supervisory Board of Novosti on May 16, 2013.{{Cite web|title=Ратко Дмитровић директор и главни уредник "Новости"|url=https://www.novosti.rs/%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8/%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0/%D0%B4%D1%80%D1%83%D1%88%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE.395.html:434161-Ratko-Dmitrovic-direktor-i-glavni-urednik-Novosti|access-date=2020-10-22|website=NOVOSTI|language=sr}}
He was officially appointed head of Novosti after a vote in the company held in 2013 and stayed in that position until 2017.{{Cite web|title=DOBIO POVERENJE: Ratko Dmitrović i zvanično na čelu Novosti|url=https://www.kurir.rs/vesti/drustvo/1107979/dobio-poverenje-ratko-dmitrovic-i-zvanicno-na-celu-novosti|access-date=2020-10-22|website=kurir.rs|language=sr}}
= Political career =
In the parliamentary elections in 2020, he was elected a member of parliament in the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, on the electoral list of the Serbian Patriotic Alliance. He appeared on the list as a non-partisan candidate.[https://www.politika.rs/sr/clanak/444180/Na-Sapicevoj-izbornoj-listi-Ratko-Dmitrovic-Vladan-Glisic-Marina-Ragus "Na Šapićevoj izbornoj listi Ratko Dmitrović, Vladan Glišić, Marina Raguš..."], Politika, accessed 17 December 2019.
Personal life
He lives in Belgrade with his wife Nataša and daughters Olja and Lenka.
On 31 March 2021, Dmitrović announced that he tested positive for COVID-19, adding that he had a fever and that he was not feeling well.{{Cite web|date=2021-03-31|title=Ratko Dmitrović zaražen koronavirusom|url=https://rs.n1info.com/vesti/ratko-dmitrovic-zarazen-koronavirusom/|access-date=2021-03-31|website=N1|language=sr-RS}}
Books
- Professor Mišković's notebook, 2005.
- Cross on the Cross, 2016
References
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Category:University of Belgrade alumni
Category:University of Zagreb alumni
Category:Members of the National Assembly (Serbia)