Acting Director of Radio-Television Serbia's Trstenik Studio

General Information: Born in 1951 in Kamnjaca. Lives in Pocekovina in Trstenik county. Married and the father of two daughters and a son. Weighs 139 kilograms.

What he Has Done in Life: Played basketball. Signed an agreement with Belgrade's "Red Star" in 1969 and quit after the first practice session without letting anyone know. He later explained this gesture: "When we villagers come to a big city, it cannot assume a close place in our hearts". He continued his sports career as a productive center for "Sloga" from Kraljevo. He finished technical junior college and worked as maintenance director of the waterworks at "Prva petoletka" in Trstenik based upon these qualifications. He left this position as director to work in agriculture and then became a parliamentary deputy in 1990. He has declared that he entered politics when people with a clean reputation were needed and many could not boast of this. A joke in Pocekovina from his first election campaign, when "Raka" used a poster of him and Slobodan Milosevic, is as follows: "He can't be stupid if he had his picture taken with our Raka". Some fellow deputies make fun of his intelligence and cannot believe his boasts that he is familiar with the technology of tank production. Raka recently defined a streetcar as "a train that goes on the road".

His Place: A profile of Mr. Radovan Radovic was first published in a "Borba" inset titled "Stars of the Evening" during February 1991. He then became known for his request that parliamentary deputies be rewarded for their honest work and farmers be compensated better than merchants and tradesmen because their obligations are greater. It seems that his deputies' and philosophical opus was then definitively destined to "insets". That is, the place for statements from parliamentary sessions that are compatible in space and time, but thematically incompatible. This is because what Raka says is impossible to express in newspaper reporting. That is why it is printed in separate articles titled "Gems", "Statement of the Week", etc. A good example: "That woman that has never stepped off of the pavement, Aleksandra Jankovic (Serbian Renewal Movement deputy), has said that she knows what my corn is like in Pomoravlje (region he is from). I invite her to go into the corn with me to measure how long my corncob is..."

Life Philosophy: Defend those who are stronger than oneself. While the Socialists and the Radicals were in love, no one defended Vojislav Seselj as fervently as Radovan Radovic. When the honeymoon between the Socialists and the Radicals ended, Raka asked from the platform in Parliament: "Who is this Seselj? A former parliamentary deputy who is now in prison. The right man in the right place."

Who is he?: There are opposition parliamentary deputies who are tormented by a different question: "What is he?" Serbian Radical Party deputy Stevo Dragisic says that "this man does not fall into the category of human being, but rather of fauna". However, Raka does not have any dilemmas because he eats apples and knows that: "there are more vitamins in apples than in bananas, and monkeys remained monkeys because they ate bananas instead of apples". It seems that Raka does not like questions such as "What is he?" because Radical leader Tomislav Nikolic announced that Radovic had spit at Dragisic in the hallway after the aforementioned statement by Dragisic.