Taušanović was a prominent member of the People's Radical Party, among its founding members and one of the closest collaborators of its leader Nikola Pašić.
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In the mid-1890s, he distanced himself from Pašić and formed a separate faction within the National Radical Party.
Ilijas Pašić (born 1934), retired Yugoslav football player and coach
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He proposed the annexation of Skadar and explained its question, which brought him in great conflict with Nikola Pasic who demanded respect of the international territorial integrity of Albania.
Besides being a deputy in the Serbian parliament, Taušanović was, after the abdication of King Milan Obrenović, a Minister in several governments (Minister of Interior 1889-1891 in Grujić’s cabinet, Minister of Economy 1891-1892 in Pašić’s Cabinet), and founder of the first insurance company in Serbia, as well as the Serbian Lottery (Srpska Lutrija) and the Serbian Shipping Company (Srpsko Brodarsko Drustvo).
She was a featured soloist at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) in Philadelphia (1990), where she gave the world premier of Graffito by Marta Ptaszynska and performed at PASIC in San Antonio (1988).
At the time when Benito Mussolini was willing to modify the Treaty of Rapallo, which cut off a quarter of Slovene ethnic territory from the remaining three-quarters of Slovenes living in the Kingdom of SHS, in order to annex the independent state of Rijeka to Italy, Pašić's attempts to correct the borders at Postojna and Idrija were also undermined by regent Alexander preferring "good relations" with Italy.
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Historian Vladimir Ćorović openly wrote that Pašić had not a shred of courage, while Swiss doctor and Serbian benefactor Archibald Reiss criticized his weakness towards his scheming son Rade.