Markovic was seen by critics as a Lady Macbeth figure goading her husband on to crush his enemies and defy the West
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A family friend, Dragoljub Kocovic, said Markovic had died of complications related to pneumonia. No other details were immediately available.There was no official reaction from Serbia’s government to the news of her death, but Defence Minister Aleksandar Vulin, a former member of Markovic’s now-defunct Yugoslav Left Party, said he was in mourning “especially because she did not spend her last days in Serbia … she loved so much.
Milosevic lost power in 2000 in a popular uprising and was extradited to The Hague a year later to face war crimes charges. He was found dead in his cell in The Hague on March 11, 2006.In her diaries, published in the-then pro-government newspapers in the 1990s, she would often predict Milosevic’s future moves.
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