Milena Popović

Milena Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Милена Поповић; born 1983), formerly known as Milena Ivanović, is politician in Serbia. She is the widow of Oliver Ivanović, a prominent Kosovo Serb politician who was killed by unknown assailants in 2018. Popović is a member of the Serbian Progressive Party and was elected to the National Assembly of Serbia in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election.

Private career

Popović is an art historian based in Belgrade.[1]

Public career

Popović sometimes acted as a spokesperson for Ivanović during his incarceration in Priština between 2014 and 2017.[2] She has spoken several times about his assassination, remarking on one occasion that she would not make a public statement on the identity of his killers unless she was absolutely certain.[3]

In a 2019 interview, she said that Marko Đurić, the director of Serbia's Office for Kosovo and Metohija, had done more to assist her husband during his incarceration than anyone else, notwithstanding that Đurić also made statements strongly critical of Ivanović when they were political rivals in the 2017 Kosovan local elections.[4] She added that she had acted as a conduit between Ivanović and Đurić when relations between the two were strained and that she considered Đurić to be a friend.[5]

Popović joined the Progressive Party in early 2020.[6][7] She received the fifty-fifth position on the party's Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children electoral list in the 2020 parliamentary election[8] and was elected when the list won a landslide victory with 188 mandates.

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References
  1. "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
  2. "Milena Ivanović: Očekujem da Oliver u sredu bude kod kuće", B92, 18 February 2017, accessed 21 July 2020.
  3. "Milena Ivanović: Imena ubica saopštiću tek kada budem sto odsto sigurna", Danas, 10 January 2019, accessed 21 July 2020.
  4. "Milena Popović: Marko Đurić više učinio za Olivera, nego svi ostali zajedno", Danas, 30 September 2019, accessed 21 July 2020.
  5. "Milena Popović: Oliver i Đurić komunicirali preko mene i kada su bili protivnici", N1, 30 September 2019, accessed 21 July 2020.
  6. Stefan Petrović, "Milena Popović: Neću da budem samo Oliverova udovica", Danas, 5 March 2020, accessed 21 July 2020.
  7. "Đurić: Milena Popović se učlanila u SNS", N!, 20 February 2020, accessed 21 July 2020.
  8. "Ko je sve na listi SNS za republičke poslanike?", Danas, 6 March 2020, accessed 30 June 2020.
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