Months after government servers were hit by sophisticated cyber-attacks, questions remain over Montenegro’s readiness to confront the next inevitable assault, experts say. First they blamed Russia, then a gang called Cuba Ransomware. Months later, authorities in Montenegro still have no definitive answer as to who was behind “unprecedented” cyber-attacks in …
Read More »‘It’s Offensive’: NATO Bomb Victims’ Families ‘Ignored’ by Montenegro Government – Analysis
Twenty-four years after NATO air strikes killed six people, including three children, in the Montenegrin village of Murino, the victims’ families have received no compensation and say consecutive governments have done nothing to help them. When the first bomb exploded on April 30, 1999 at a bridge near near the …
Read More »INTERVIEW Nenad Canak: I absolutely understand the need to replace Đukanović after 33 years in power, but…
I am not very familiar with the actions of the newly elected President of Montenegro. I only know that he was elected to the apostolic government of Zdravko Krivokapić on the recommendation, to put it mildly, of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral. Which already makes me doubt the …
Read More »GEOPOLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ELECTIONS IN MONTENEGRO
Rimland or “coastal zone” is the main point of collision of geopolitical forces. For the geopolitics of the Sea, the ability to deter the forces of the Land from their presence in the coastal zone of the Rimland is of primary importance. Since its founding in 1949, the NATO alliance …
Read More »“Understood and not at all surprising”: Danas interlocutors on Milatović’s statement that Montenegro will not withdraw recognition of Kosovo
The statement of the newly elected President of Montenegro, Jakov Milatović, that the country will not withdraw the recognition of Kosovo – is taken for granted and not at all surprising – the interlocutors of Danas agree. Šaip Kamberi, a member of the Serbian Parliament and president of the Party …
Read More »Vučić: I did not interfere in the elections in Montenegro, I expect Milatović in Belgrade in May
Aleksandar Vučić, the president of Serbia and the Serbian Progressive Party, in a live address to the media from Verona, rejected allegations that he “won” the presidential elections in Montenegro, stressing that only the candidate Jakov Milatović won, and that those in the opposition of Serbia expect that if the …
Read More »Montenegro Presidential Election: Entering The Post-Dukanović Era – Analysis
In Montenegro, the runoff presidential election will be held on 2 April 2023. In the first round held on 19 March 2023 the most votes were won by Milo Đukanović (11,9673 votes or 35.37%) and Jakov Milatović (97,858 votes or 28.92%). The turnout was 64.06% (341,551). The president is elected …
Read More »Montenegro: Deciding Between The Past And The Future – Analysis
On 19 March 2023, presidential elections will be held in Montenegro for the eighth time since the introduction of the multi-party system in this country and for the fourth time since its independence was proclaimed in 2006. 542,154 voters will be eligible to give a vote. The president of Montenegro …
Read More »Montenegro: New Prosecutor Makes Minimal Progress in Wartime Probes
In 2022, the Montenegrin authorities started investigating a retired Yugoslav navy officer and put a Bosnian Serb Army ex-soldier on trial, but there were few other signs of progress towards dealing with the country’s wartime past. During the past few months, Montenegro’s new state prosecutor Vladmir Novovic has made minor …
Read More »Unbuilt Sewage Treatment Plants Cost Montenegro Taxpayers Millions
Seven Montenegrin municipalities were offered multi-million-euro grants in 2012 to build essential wastewater treatment plants to prevent sewage polluting rivers and the sea, but no construction work has begun yet, and as years pass, the potential cost keeps rising. Rozaje was intended to be one of the first municipalities in …
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