Rifat Rastoder
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Rifat Rastoder is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...
, then Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
) is a Montenegrin Bosniak
Bosniaks of Montenegro
Bosniaks are an ethnic group in Montenegro. According to the last census from 2003, the total number of Bosniaks in Montenegro was 48,184 and they comprised 7.77% of population...
politician, writer and journalist. He is the deputy speaker of the Parliament of Montenegro
Parliament of Montenegro
The Parliament of Montenegro is the unicameral legislature of Montenegro. The Parliament currently has 81 members, each elected for a four-year term. The current Speaker of the Parliament is Ranko Krivokapić, while the deputy speakers are Željko Šturanović and Rifat Rastoder...
and the vice-president of the Social Democratic Party of Montenegro
Social Democratic Party of Montenegro
The Social Democratic Party of Montenegro is a political party in Montenegro....
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Biography
In 1969, Rastoder went to live in Titograd (today's PodgoricaPodgorica
Podgorica , is the capital and largest city of Montenegro.Podgorica's favourable position at the confluence of the Ribnica and Morača rivers and the meeting point of the fertile Zeta Plain and Bjelopavlići Valley has encouraged settlement...
) where he continues to live to this day. He became a professional journalist in 1980. Until 1986, he worked for Radio Crne Gore
Radio Crne Gore
Radio Crne Gore is a radio station in Montenegro. It is part of Radio Televizija Crne Gore . Radio Crne Gore broadcasts from Podgorica.-History:...
as a journalist, program editor and the editor of the programming block. In 1990, he was voted Best Journalist. By late 1996, he had become a journalist and editor of the interior-political rubric and comentator for the Pobjeda
Pobjeda
Pobjeda is a Montenegrin newspaper. Having been published for 66 years, it is the oldest Montenegrin newspaper still in circulation. It is the oldest Montenegrin active media, too....
newspaper. From 1991, he was a journalist and editor in the weekly news magazine, Monitor
The Monitor (Montenegro)
Monitor is a weekly newsmagazine published in Podgorica, Montenegro.Started on October 19, 1990 by university professor Miodrag Perović and businessman Stanislav "Ćano" Koprivica, the magazine appeared at a time when the single-party political system in SFR Yugoslavia had been abolished and its...
, along with one of the initiators of founding Radio Antena M
Radio Antena M
Antena M is a radio station in Montenegro, one of the most popular in the country. The president and owner of the station is Darko Šuković, a prominent Montenegrin journalist...
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Politically, he was one of the founders and vice-presidents of the Civic Movement since 1990. He is also a member of the board of the Civic Forum and is one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party of Montenegro
Social Democratic Party of Montenegro
The Social Democratic Party of Montenegro is a political party in Montenegro....
, of which he is vice-president.
He was chosen as representative in the Parliament
Parliament of Montenegro
The Parliament of Montenegro is the unicameral legislature of Montenegro. The Parliament currently has 81 members, each elected for a four-year term. The current Speaker of the Parliament is Ranko Krivokapić, while the deputy speakers are Željko Šturanović and Rifat Rastoder...
four times, and deputy speaker of the Parliament for three mandates of which he served under Svetozar Marović
Svetozar Marovic
Svetozar Marović ; born March 31, 1955) is a lawyer and a Montenegrin politician. He was the only president of Serbia and Montenegro...
, Filip Vujanović
Filip Vujanovic
Filip Vujanović is a Montenegrin politician who, since 2003, has served as the President of Montenegro. He is the first President of Montenegro since it split ties with Serbia and became an independent nation in June 2006...
and current speaker of parliament, Ranko Krivokapić
Ranko Krivokapic
Ranko Krivokapić is the Speaker of the Parliament of Montenegro and the President of the Social Democratic Party of Montenegro .-Biography:...
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On 19 May 2003, Rifat Rastoder - along with the second deputy speaker of parliament Dragan Kujović
Dragan Kujović
Dragan Kujović was a politician from the Republic of Montenegro and a member of the Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro. He and Rifat Rastoder of the Social Democratic Party of Montenegro served as joined acting Presidents of Montenegro from 19 May to 22 May 2003. -References:...
- became joint acting president of Montenegro after Filip Vujanović resigned from his position of acting President of Montenegro and Speaker of Parliament to prepare for his inauguration as President of Montenegro three days later, 22 May.
Besides speaking his native language, he also speaks Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
and to a lesser degree, English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
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Trivia
- His relative, ŠerboŠerbo RastoderProf. Šerbo Rastoder, PhD is a Montenegrin Bosniak historian. He is also an author, writing about the history of Montenegro and about a few specific parts in Montenegro's history...
, is a prominent Montenegrin historian.