Latest News from Montenegro
Montenegro Police Scrap Threatened Reporter's Protection
Montenegrin journalists' associations have protested over the decision of the police to scrap round-the-clock security for crime reporter Tufik Softic.
Softic has lived under 24-hour police protection for almost two years following threats he received for coverage of organized crime groups in Montenegro.
Belgrade to Host Annual Queer Film Festival
Under the slogan "Say Eight" ("Reci osam"), the eighth annual Merlinka LGBT film festival opens on December 8 and runs until December 14 at Belgrade's Dom Omladine.
Audiences will have the opportunity to see 41 short films, six feature films and ten documentaries, some of which premiered at well-known festivals such as Sundance, Berlinale and Tribeca.
Vucic receives Montenegrin Serb representatives
BELGRADE - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic on Monday received representatives of Montenegrin Serb parliamentary parties and cultural institutions, who conveyed concern over the position of the country's Serbs.
The delegation, headed by New Serb Democracy President Andrija Mandic, made concrete proposals how the Serbian government could help Serbs in Montenegro.
Child dies after parents "treat" her lice with insecticide
A five year old child from the village of Besnik near Rozaje, in northeastern Montenegro, has died from etiol poisoning.
The child passed away at the Podgorica Clinical Center despite the doctors' efforts to save her. The clinic also sought help from the Belgrade-based military clinic VMA and the Institute for Mother and Child in the Serbian capital, the daily Blic is reporting.
Balkan Journalists Vulnerable to Attacks, Study Shows
A study conducted in Bosna and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro by the Western Balkans Platform for Advocating Media Freedom and Journalists Safety, concludes that journalists remain vulnerable to physical attacks and other pressures, and have few ways of defending themselves effectively.
WW2 - Time when Kosovo Albanians wanted to create ethnically pure "Greater Islamic State"
Historical evidence demonstrates that genocide and ethnic cleansing were perpetrated upon the Serbian population of Kosovo and Metohija, first by Ottoman Turks, then by Albanian leaders and the populace and continued throughout the Communist period, during which the ethnic Serbian population was forced to emigrate.