Miodrag "Mile" Isakov (Миодраг "Миле" Исаков) (born March 20, 1950 in
Zemun,
Serbia,
FPR Yugoslavia) is a
Serbian former politician, journalist and diplomat. He is most notable as a long-time leader of the
Reformists of Vojvodina political party. Until February 2009, he was the
Serbian Ambassador to
Israel.
Early life
Born in the suburb of the capital
Belgrade, Isakov attended primary school in the villages of
Tovariševo and
Silbaš near
Bačka Palanka. He then completed secondary education (
gymnasium) in
Novi Sad and also attended high school in
Carsonville, a village in the US state of
Michigan. In 1974, he graduated from the
University of Novi Sad's Faculty of Philosophy with a degree in Yugoslav literature.
In 1975 he got a job at
TV Novi Sad, a state-run broadcster where he stayed until 1994. During the late 1980s he wrote the screenplay of the comedy series
Specijalna redakcija starring
Đorđe Balašević,
Bogdan Diklić,
Aleksandar Berček,
Emir Hadžihafizbegović, and
Mira Banjac among others.
Politics
His party was part of the wide
DOS coalition that won power in
FR Yugoslavia (federal level) and Serbia (republic level) in 2000. In the subsequent division of power, Isakov became one of five deputy prime ministers in the
government of prime minister
Zoran Đinđić. Disillusioned with the way things were going, Isakov resigned his post in 2002, and eventually left politics altogether.
In 2004 his book......
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