{"id":42397,"date":"2026-03-15T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/?post_type=news&#038;p=42397"},"modified":"2026-03-17T09:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T08:08:25","slug":"president-milanovic-attends-opening-of-chess-tournament-in-honour-of-deceased-journalist-and-publicist-sanjin-spanovic","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/en\/news\/president-milanovic-attends-opening-of-chess-tournament-in-honour-of-deceased-journalist-and-publicist-sanjin-spanovic\/","title":{"rendered":"President Milanovi\u0107 Attends Opening of Chess Tournament in Honour of Deceased Journalist and Publicist Sanjin \u0160panovi\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The President of the Republic Zoran Milanovi\u0107 attended today the opening of the 1<sup>st<\/sup> &nbsp;Memorial Charity Chess Tournament \u201cSanjin \u0160panovi\u0107\u201d organized by Dinamo Business Club and Dinamo Foundation \u201cNema predaje\u201d (No Surrender) in conjunction with Croatian Chess Grandmaster Alojzije Jankovi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his address, President Milanovi\u0107 recalled his acquaintance with the recently deceased journalist, Sanjin \u0160panovi\u0107. \u201cI knew him when he was a political journalist in City Hall covering city and state politics while I was president of the SDP Party. He was an especially dear, polite and warm young man who quickly abandoned political journalism realizing it was a job for people who could stomach certain things. We kept in contact, talked occasionally\u201d, President Milanovi\u0107 added, saying that news about his death shocked him. \u201cIn honour of \u0160pan and dear people like him, frail, subtle, human butterflies that were never caterpillars only butterflies. \u0160pan, may this be your day, keep on flying!\u201d, President Milanovi\u0107 said at the opening of the 1<sup>st<\/sup> &nbsp;Memorial Charity Chess Tournament \u201cSanjin \u0160panovi\u0107\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tournament was held in memory of the recently deceased journalist and publicist, Sanjin \u0160panovi\u0107, who was also the author of the book \u201cZeko \u2013 biografija Velimira Zajeca\u201d (Zeko \u2013 A Biography of Velimir Zajec). 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