birth_date: 1946-05-25 00:00:00
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name: Miroslav Tuđman
about: Miroslav Tuđman was a Croatian scientist and politician, the son and eldest child of the first President of Croatia, Franjo Tuđman, and his wife Ankica.He was born in Belgrade, where he completed grade school, before he moved with his family to Zagreb in 1961. He was named after the famous writer Miroslav Krleža who was adored by his father at that period. He graduated from gymnasium and then from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb in 1970. He became part of the faculty, and received a doctorate in information sciences at the same university in 1985. In 1989 he founded the Institute for Information Studies at the Faculty.He participated in the Croatian War of Independence in 1991, and in 1992 he became the head of the Cen Miroslav Tuđman was a Croatian scientist and politician, the son and eldest child of the first President of Croatia, Franjo Tuđman, and his wife Ankica.He was born in Belgrade, where he completed grade school, before he moved with his family to Zagreb in 1961. He was named after the famous writer Miroslav Krleža who was adored by his father at that period. He graduated from gymnasium and then from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb in 1970. He became part of the faculty, and received a doctorate in information sciences at the same university in 1985. In 1989 he founded the Institute for Information Studies at the Faculty.He participated in the Croatian War of Independence in 1991, and in 1992 he became the head of the Center for Strategic Research. Later he was the deputy head of the National Security Office and then the founder and leader of the first Croatian Intelligence Agency (Croatian: Hrvatska izvještajna služba; HIS) between 1993 and 1998, and then from 1999 to 2000. In 1995, President Tuđman decorated him with the Order of Duke Domagoj, for war-time merit as a member of the political administration of the Ministry of Defence. In 1998 he became a tenured professor at the Faculty of Philosophy.In 2011 he won a seat in the parliamentary election on a HDZ ticket in the 7th assembly. He retained his seat in the following three elections in 2015 (8th assembly), 2016 (9th assembly) and 2020 (10th assembly).He died on 31 January 2021 at Zagreb's Hospital for Infectious Diseases where he had been hospitalized days earlier due to COVID-19 complications during the COVID-19 pandemic in Croatia.He wrote several books important for understanding the break-up of Yugoslavia, the war of the 1990s, and the post-war period of the early 2000s. He was reputed to be an excellent analyst. He exposed, among other things, the dirty policy of Croatian President Mesic, misconceptions and lies about Croatia's policy in Bosnia, and the corrupt policy of the Hague Tribunal. He also edited the important work "Tudjman's Archive" in 6 volumes.(parts of this text are copied from Wikipedia) ...more
death_date: 2021-01-31 00:00:00