Songs for Western Slavs

The British Prime Minister Teresa May called on the European Union to closer cooperation with the West Balkan countries to effective confrontation of "disinformation" from Russia. According to the BBC, May said this at a meeting with EU leaders in Brussels.

According to the prime minister, the increased instability in the region threatens the collective security of the European Union. "In the light of the alleged attempts to arrange a coup in Montenegro, I urge us to make all more to counteract the Russian disinformation campaigns that destabilize the situation and make our interest in cooperation with this region more obvious," the British prime minister said.

May also said that Britain intends to build closer ties with the countries of this region, and next year will accept the Summit of Western Balkans. Cooperation in the field of security with the Balkan countries will affect, in particular, the fight against organized crime, corruption and cyber attacks.

At the end of February, the special prosecutor of Montenegro, the Military Katnich accused the Russian intelligence services of involvement in the organization of the coup in Montenegro. According to the Chernogorsk authorities, on October 16, 2016, when parliamentary elections were held in the country, a group of conspirators planned to hold a series of armed attacks. The main victim was to be Prime Minister Mil Dzhukanovich.

The chaos that arose as a result of these actions should have taken advantage of one of the opposition parties that would seize power and change the foreign policy of Montenegro - would refuse plans to enter NATO and set a course towards rapprochement with Moscow.

According to Katnich, at the head of the group planning the coup, Russian citizen Eduard Shishmakov stood. According to the prosecutor, one of the main conspirators, Alexander Sindelich, who was going through the case as a witness to the investigation, visited Moscow at the invitation of Shishmakov to verify the possibility of participating in the operation.

"There are nationalist structures in Russia behind these events, but now we know that Russian state bodies were also included in them. The verification of how all this happened and I expect this to be done," Katnich said.

According to the prosecutor, the indictment in connection with the attempt of the coup will be ready until April 15. 23 people were involved in the case, but after the removal of the deputy front of the deputy front of Andriy Mandich and Milan Knezhevich last week, the number of participants increased to 25 persons.

In Russia, the charges were called "unfounded." “These are too serious words to pronounce them and not reinforce any reliable information. This is at least irresponsible,” said Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of Vladimir Putin. He noted that he refers to the statement of the special prosecutor of Montenegro "very negatively."