Vladimir Popović
| Vladimir Popović | |
|---|---|
 Vladimir Beba Popovic.jpg | |
| Born | 3 October 1958 Svetozarevo, Jagodina, FPR Yugoslavia |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Serbian |
| Other names | Beba Popović |
| 🎓 Alma mater | University of Belgrade |
| 💼 Occupation | Political marketing expert |
Vladimir "Beba" Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир Беба Поповић) is the founder and director of the regional think-tank organization Institute for Public Policy and former head of the Communications Bureau in the government of Zoran Djindjic.
Biography[edit]
Vladimir Popović was born in 1958 in Svetozarevo. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade. He participated in the organization of the return of the heir to the throne, Aleksandar Karađorđević, to Serbia in 1991, where he cooperated with Vuk Drašković and Vojislav Koštunica.[1] After the 1991 protests in Belgrade, he met Zoran Đinđić, and since then their long-term cooperation and friendship has begun. Popovic was the director of the marketing agencies Ogilvy & Mather and Spektra, which ran almost all the campaigns of the Democratic Party and it's coalitions.
With the Spektra agency, he participated in the first professionally conducted political campaign in Serbia, called "Fair", together with many prominent personalities such as Milan Beko, Nebojsa Djukelić, Srdjan Šaper, as well as Aleksandar Tijanić[2], with whom he would later have numerous media and court confrontations.[3]
After the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević, he became the Secretary of the Communications Bureau in Zoran Đinđić's government and the president of the Anti-Corruption Committee of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), in charge of uncovering the scandals of Slobodan Milosevic's regime. In 2002, he came into conflict with US Ambassador William Montgomery, who accused him of media campaign against the editor-in-chief of B92 television, Veran Matić.[4] After the assassination of Zoran Đinđić, he was one of the initiators of the Operation Saber, with the aim of finding and arresting persons who participated in the assassination, but also other people connected with organized crime. [5][6]
In an interview on the Insider show in 2005, he presented his findings on the events before and after the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević, as well as the involvement of the State Security Service in the murder of Zoran Đinđić, and blamed Vojislav Koštunica for participation in the assassination.
He later became the owner of a consulting and lobbying company based in Vienna and London, and in 2007 he completed professional training in the United Kingdom, where he attended specialist courses in the fields of media, economics and politics.[7] He is the author of the publication "Željko Cvijanović - a journalist in civilian clothes" published in 2007 by the Committee of Lawyers for Human Rights.[8] In 2013, he founded the regional organization Institute for Public Policy with offices in Belgrade, Podgorica and Ljubljana. He is perceived in the media as an informal advisor to Milo Đukanović and Aleksandar Vučić, which the latter denied.[9]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Vladimir Beba Popović". Nedeljnik Vreme. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
- ↑ Plejboj. "Intervju Vladimira Popovića–Bebe srpskom plejboju (necenzurisana verzija) – Katalaksija". Retrieved 2020-05-13.
- ↑ "Beba nije vređao". www.novosti.rs (in српски / srpski). Retrieved 2020-05-13.
- ↑ "NIN / Premijer mi je rekao..." www.nin.co.rs. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
- ↑ Insajder. "Transkript prve epizode". Insajder (in српски / srpski). Retrieved 2020-05-13.
- ↑ Insajder. "Transkript druge epizode". Insajder (in српски / srpski). Retrieved 2020-05-13.
- ↑ април 2007, aleksinac net Статус Магазин (2007-05-10). "Беба: Мишковић пљачка Србију!". Алексиначке вести - новости Алексинац (in српски / srpski). Retrieved 2020-05-13.
- ↑ Popović, Vladimir. Željko Cvijanović - novinar u civilu. Belgrade: Komitet pravnika za ljudksa prava YUCOM. Search this book on
- ↑ "Vučić za KRIK o Lončaru, Subotiću, Bebi Popoviću, Šariću..." N1 Srbija (in српски / srpski). Retrieved 2020-05-13.
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