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Montenegrin President Filip Vujanovic on Tuesday gave Serbia's late Prime Minister, Zoran Djindjic, the country's highest honour for improving relations between Serbia and Montenegro during his term in offce.

A journalistic team from South Africa that exposed an elite unit that killed 1,000 people has won the Dusko Jovanovic Foundation's International Press Prize.

The awards are given to investigative reporters in memory of Dusko Jovanovic, editor-in-chief of the Montenegrin daily Dan who was murdered 11 years ago.

Montenegrin President Filip Vujanovic on Thursday signed the long-delayed appointment of a new ambassador to Bosnia - as relations between the two Balkan countries started returning to normal after a months-long border dispute.

"Russia won't mind Montenegro joining NATO"

PODGORICA -- Montenegrin President Filip Vujanovic expects his country to be invited to join NATO by the end of the year. He also believes Russia will not "oppose" this.

Russia's Ambassador to Montenegro, Andrej Nesterenko, on Wednesday accused Montenegrin President Filip Vujanovic of changing his mind about whether to take part in the Victory Day parade in Moscow, having first said he would go before later saying he would not.  

Most of the 809 journalists working for over hundred media outlets in Montenegro earn less than the national average pay, a survey published by the country's Media Insitute on Tuesday shows.

The survey finds that the average wage of journalists in Montenegro is 470 euros a month, which is just below the average monthly wage of 487 euros.

Germany supports Montenegrin bid to join NATO

PODGORICA -- German Ambassador Gudrun Steinacker says that her country was in favor of Montenegro receiving an invitation to join NATO this year.

Montenegrin opposition parties on Wednesday called on the government to deal more toughly with a new border dispute that has erupted after some Bosnian academics claimed a short stretch of the Montenegrin coast belonged by rights to Bosnia.

The head of the Committee for Security and Defense, Melvudin Nuhodzic, said on Sunday that because of the deadly attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the Montenegrin security services should be more vigilant in monitoring Islamic extremists.

The head of Montenegro's Islamic community, Rifat Fejzic, on Thursday condemned the Islamist terror attack in Paris, which claimed the lives of 12 people.

At the same time, he criticized the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that were the alleged reason for the attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine.