Zoran Žižić (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Жижић; 4 March 1951 – 4 January 2013) was a Yugoslav and Montenegrin politician. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Montenegro in the first two Đukanović cabinets from 1991 to 1996, and was the first Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia following the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in 2000. Žižić resigned from the position of Prime Minister in protest over the extradition of Slobodan Milošević to the ICTY in June 2001. He was part of the hard-line Serbian nationalist wing of the Socialist People's Party and was expelled in 2005 following disagreements with its moderate leader Predrag Bulatović. Early life and education Zoran Žižić was born on 4 March 1951 in Titograd. His father Živko Žižić fought for the Yugoslav Partisans in World War II and was a pre-war member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. After the war, he held the positions of State Prosecutor, Federal Deputy, then Minister of Education and Justice in the Government of Montenegro, as well as the President of the Supreme Court of Montenegro. Zoran's mother was Sonja Žižić (née Ivanović). On his father's side, Zoran's ancestors belonged to the tribe of Uskoci. On his mother's side, he is descended from the tribe of Kuči. Žižić attended both elementary school and the Gymnasium in his hometown. He graduated and obtained a magister degree from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law. He returned to his hometown and worked at the University of Montenegro Faculty of Law, first as an assistant, and later as a lecturer. Political career Žižić was a member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. However, his first active participation in politics was during the Anti-bureaucratic Revolution in 1989. He became head of the Main Board of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) and an MP in the Federal Assembly of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Žižić's first elected office was Deputy Prime Minister of Montenegro, a position he held during the first and second Đukanović cabinets. As Deputy Prime Minister, Žižić worked on the project of reforming Montenegro into an offshore financial center. After Momir Bulatović's split with the DPS, Žižić followed him and was elected Vice President of the newly formed Socialist People's Party of Montenegro (SNP) in 1998. He became Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on 4 November 2000 shortly after the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević, when