Montenegro-Russian relations deteriorate
Years of sanctions, countermeasures, bans, protest notes.
|2017.06.15
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“The sanctions involve bans on a certain number of Russian citizens to enter EU territory, and the territories of the countries which also adopted the sanctions. Now they can say: ‘You did it first, so now we’ll do it.’”
Former foreign minister of Montenegro, Branko LukovacData from several institutions show that Podgorica is losing out financially. Montenegro’s exports to Russia have drastically decreased in the past three years.
"Russia has to stop meddling with and influencing the political systems of foreign countries. It has to give up on meddling with internal Montenegrin issues."
Montenegrin prime minister, Dusko Markovic
Nemanja Zivaljevic
Nemanja Zivaljevic is a K2.0 correspondent from Montenegro, born in Titograd, modern-day Podgorica, in 1983. He has worked in journalism since 2007. Sport and drawing are becoming an abstract noun to him, for three tiny reasons – Simona, Lazar and Dimitrije.
This story was originally written in Serbian.