t is suggested by Niko in Yugoslavia and raised in a small town in Serbia today, near his cousin Roman Bellic. His father was an alcoholic who despises Niko Bellic mother Milica, was a woman who suffers from a long, unhappy that his son grew up in a tough position. He also had a brother who died during the Bosnian war. According to the dialogue on a mission after the Trash Nick dreamed of becoming an astronaut when he was a child. In an interview with Dwayne Forge, Niko says, the place where he grew up, did not have electricity until he was twelve years old. In an interview with Kate McReary, Niko, said his aunt (mother of the Roman) was found raped and murdered, to know some time after the Roman departure to the United States, Roman will be destroyed on the ground or, if you knew reality of the death of his mother, who covers what happened is Nick, said he died in a fire house. Niko grew up in the harsh environment of the wars of Yugoslavia, and was a soldier, even in adolescence (the war in former Yugoslavia from 1991 to 1995, which means that Nick was 13 to 17 years). Niko says he was betrayed ten years , making it closer to 1997 or 1998 (although Florian said he was twelve or thirteen years in a phone call after the mission, someone special). Has served as a helicopter pilot and a soldier in the war and during the mission, light meals, the novel takes her driving a tank (although, since the absence of Roman firsthand experience, this is not necessarily true). During the war, both witnessed and committed numerous atrocities, Nick, which led to the cynical view on life and some remorse, depression and emotional distance. Finally, the unit Niko fifteen men (most of them friends from home) in an ambush by enemy forces and killed all but three were as follows: Darko Brevic Florian Cravic and Nick themselves. Niko conclusion even Florian Darko, the group had sold, and he promised to locate and kill the culprit not only revenge, but we hope to close the book on the incident and move on with life. The project was difficult to obtain by war. Niko's cousin Roman, had already emigrated to America in a new life in Liberty City to begin; Nick spent the next ten years working in the criminal underworld, leading to a brief period in prison. Once released from prison, working for a trafficking network led by Ray Bulgaria, where a boat sank in the operation to the Adriatic Sea during the trafficking in Italy, swam to safety Niko, but everything is running and always had lost. Bulgaria believes that Nick had deliberately sunk the ship and stole his money, the gangster-distance was too great in Europe, Niko is the maritime industry for the Bulgarian influence to escape.