Mirjana Markovic, the the widow of former Serbian and Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, died on Sunday of pneumonia, Tanjug has been able to confirm. According to unofficial information, she died in a hospital in Moscow.

Dragan Radovic from the Freedom Association told Tanjug that he was in contact with the family and that Markovic died of pneumonia after undergoing two surgeries.

Radovic said that she wanted to be buried in Pozarevac next to her husband, but that the family would have the final say on this.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told RTS what he said about Slobodan Milosevic in Mitrovica North on Sunday was not glorification, but a serious and responsible criticism of politics we have conducted at that time.

Vucic, added that many falsified his statement, in which he said, “Milosevic had the biggest support, he was a great leader, but the results of his rule for the Serbs were very bad.” Vucic also said “many pretended they did not hear” what he said in fact, leaving the second part of the statement out.

The speech Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic held over the weekend in Kosovo triggered fierce reactions among politicians in Bosnia and Herzegovina, who assessed it as “shameful” and “scandalous.”

During his two-day visit to Kosovo, Aleksandar Vucic addressed the Serb community inhabiting the Serb-dominated northern part of the divided town of Mitrovica.

The US State Department has dismissed Serbian claims that the late US diplomat Richard Holbrooke wrote to Milosevic, pledging that Washington would not recognise Kosovo's independence.

The US State Department has denied Serbian claims that the late diplomat Richard Holbrooke's letter wrote to the late Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic in 1998/9, pledging that the United States would "never recognize Kosovo".

“This is simply not true. There is no such letter,” the US State Department wrote in an email to BIRN.