Nikola Šainović

Nikola Šainović
Никола Шаиновић
Šainović in 2002
Deputy Prime Minister of FR Yugoslavia
In office
22 February 1994  9 October 2000
PresidentSlobodan Milošević
Prime MinisterRadoje Kontić
Momir Bulatović
Prime Minister of Serbia
In office
10 February 1993  18 March 1994
PresidentSlobodan Milošević
DeputySrboljub Vasović
Zoran Aranđelović
Saša Anđelković
Danilo Z. Marković
Dragoslav Jovanović
Preceded byRadoman Božović
Succeeded byMirko Marjanović
Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia
In office
23 December 1991  10 February 1993
Prime MinisterRadoman Božović
Preceded byVelimir Radivojević
Nikola Stanić
Budimir Košutić
Succeeded byDanilo Z. Marković
Dragoslav Jovanović
Minister of Energy and Mining
In office
11 February 1991  10 February 1993
Prime MinisterDragutin Zelenović
Radoman Božović
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byVladimir Živanović
Personal details
Born (1948-12-07) 7 December 1948
Bor, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
Political partyLeague of Communists of Serbia (1977–90)
Socialist Party of Serbia (1990–present)
SpouseSvetlana Šainović
Children2
Alma materUniversity of Belgrade
University of Ljubljana
OccupationPolitician

Nikola Šainović (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Шаиновић, born 7 December 1948) is a Serbian politician. A close associate of Slobodan Milošević, he held several important state functions of Serbia and FR Yugoslavia during the 1990s. He has been a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia since the party's foundation.

He served as the Deputy Prime Minister of FR Yugoslavia in charge of foreign affairs from 1994 to 2000, and represented Milošević as his emissary in Kosovo affairs from October 1998 during the Kosovo War. He previously served as the Prime Minister of Serbia from 1993 to 1994 and as the minister of Energy and Mining of Serbia and the Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia from 1991 to 1992.

In 2009, he was convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague (ICTY) for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed against ethnic Albanian civilians in 1999 during the Kosovo War. In 2015, he was granted early release after serving two-thirds of his sentence.