Background
Nano Ruzin was born to parents Gligor Ruzin (1917-1967) and Stana Ruzin (1921-2013).
Nano Ruzin was born to parents Gligor Ruzin (1917-1967) and Stana Ruzin (1921-2013).
He has two elder brothers Risto (1943-1986) and Gjorge (1946-2002). The family originated from the Mijaks group of people from the region of Debar-Galicnik. The name of the family comes from a famous and prominent lady of the Mijaks, Baba Ruza.
Nano lived his childhood in Valandovo from 1952 to 1959.
He then went to Skopje where he witnessed the 1963 Skopje earthquake. He was in luck because several buildings near the place where he lived at the time were destroyed by the magnitude of the disaster.
Ružin then graduated at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the Belgrade University in 1975. And finished his Post-Graduate studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Zagreb 1982.
Before he graduated in Zagreb, Nano spent 1 year of preparations in Paris at the Sorbonne-Paris 1 University.
In 1981, he was admitted at the Institute of Political Sciences in Paris, where he worked with French professor Alfred Grosser. In 1986, he received his Doctor of Philosophy In 1987 he began to work at the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje. In 1991, he forms several Non-governmental organizations: Atlantic Treaty Association (ATA) JEF (Young European Federalists) European Movement In 2001, he was nominated by president Boris Trajkovski to serve Macedonia as an Ambassador to North Atlantic Treaty Organization, in Brussels, where he remained until April 2008.
He was nominated by the Liberal Democratic Party to represent it at the 2009 presidential elections.
On 14 June 2012, he was a awarded as a recipient of the French Knight of the Legion of Honor. The decoration was signed by Nicolas Sarkozy and was given to him by the French Ambassador to Macedonia, Jean-Claude Schlumberger.
Nano is married with Danica Ružin who is a professional diplomat.
From early 1994 to late 2001, he was elected a Member of the Parliament of Macedonia twice (1994, 1998).