Montenegro

Montenegro Црна Гора
Flag Coat of arms
Capital and largest city	Podgorica
Official languages	Serbo-Croatian
Demonym(s)	Montenegrin
Dominant mode of production	Capitalism
Government	Unitary parliamentary republic
• President	Jakov Milatović
• Prime Minister	Milojko Spajić
• President of the Parliament	Andrija Mandić
Area
• Total	13,812 km²
Population
• 2023 census	623,633 (164th)

Montenegro is a country in southern Europe located in the Balkans with a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the southwest. It borders Serbia to the northeast, Albania to the southeast, Bosnia & Herzegovina to the northwest and the Croatian exclave of Dubrovnik to the west. It was part of the SFR Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1992 and remained part of the FR Yugoslavia and later Serbia and Montenegro until 2006.

History

FR Yugoslavia

See main articles: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2003), Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006)

NATO puppetization

In 2007, Milo Ðukanović signed an agreement allowing NATO troops and vehicles to occupy Montenegro. He destroyed the country's Yugoslav-era weapons and ordered replacements from Britain and the USA.

In December 2015, when NATO invited Montenegro to join, thousands protested, and Ðukanović lost support from other parties in his coalition. The government published false polling data that said that a majority of citizens supported joining NATO. On the day of a parliamentary vote in October 2016 to elect the prime minister, the internet was shut down and the opposition news website Vijesti was inaccessible around the world. Ðukanović claimed that Russia plotted a coup against him.

Politics

Current Prime Minister Milojko Spajić seeks to join the EU. His coalition relies on support from the anti-imperialist bloc For a Better Montenegro, whose leader Andrija Mandić agreed to support Spajić's government in exchange for becoming Speaker of the Parliament.