Long-time journalist and foreign policy editor of Radio Free Europe, Dragan Štavljanin, has passed away, Radio Free Europe reported.
Štavljanin began his journalistic career in the second half of the 1980s in Belgrade, as one of the youngest journalists at the weekly NIN.
He continued his work at Radio Belgrade, which he left due to the editorial policy imposed by Slobodan Milošević's government circles.
During the NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999, he hosted a five-hour nightly program on Radio Free Europe (RFE), which achieved record ratings in Serbia.
Štavljanin built and coordinated the network of RFE/RL correspondents for Serbia, Kosovo and Montenegro.
During his career, he interviewed many famous figures from the world and the region, including Nobel laureate and former President of Poland Lech Walesa, former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, American political scientist and economist Francis Fukuyama, former President of Croatia Stjepan Mesić, and others.
He has written several books and professional papers, the most significant of which is the comparative study of conflicts in the former Soviet Union, "Cold Peace: Caucasus and Kosovo", in which Kosovo occupies a key place. He holds a master's degree in international relations from the Open University in London and Budapest.
At the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade, in 2012, he defended his doctoral dissertation "Democracy and Media in the Era of Globalization".
He was born in Čačak, and for the last thirty years he has lived in Prague.
He died at the age of 62 from the consequences of a serious illness.
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