Montenegro is accepted in NATO

Montenegro became the 29th member of NATO. This is reported by Vijesti.

The country's adoption ceremony in the North Atlantic Alliance was held in Washington in the US State Department building. It was attended by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Montenegro Dushko Markovich, head of the country's Foreign Ministry Sdjan Darmanovich and US Department of Committee for Political Affairs Thomas Shannon.

Markovich called June 5 a "great day" for his country.

Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign Ministry, on the eve of the ceremony, announced the "next stream of misinformation and the hackneyed propaganda cliches against Russia from official Podgorica" ​​as a manifestation "continuing in Montenegro anti -Russian hysteria."

“In the light of the hostile line of the Montenegrin authorities, the Russian side reserves the right to take retaliatory measures based on reciprocity,” they noted on Smolenskaya Square. “We state that the responsibility for the current situation lies entirely on the Chernogorsk side.”

TheAgreement of Montenegro ratified the agreement on the accession to NATO on April 28 . In the following weeks, the document was approved by all countries - members of the alliance.

Russia tried to disrupt this process. In October 2016, a coup d'etat was prevented in Montenegro, during which it was planned to kill the then Prime Minister Milo Dzhukanovich.

The Chernogorsk prosecutor's office accuses the Russian authorities of involvement in the crime. She issued a warrant of two agents of the Russian GRU - Eduard Shishmakov (pseudonym Shirokov) and Vladimir Popov.

On May 24, a court began in Montenegro in the case of an attempt by a pro -Russian coup in the country . The indictment states that the Shishmaks and Popov, which were put on the wanted list from the beginning of last year to October 18, led a criminal organization created on the territory of Montenegro, Serbia and Russia. The accusations were also charged to citizens of Serbia and Montenegro, including the leaders of the Prossei Party Democratic Front, Andriy Mandich and Milan Knezhevich.

In recent days, the conflict of Moscow with Podgoria has especially aggravated. On May 28, Minister Darmanovich said that Russia openly intervenes in the domestic policy of Montenegro. On the same day, a deputy of the bought -up Moodrage Vukovich, who was heading to Minsk, was unreasonably detained at the Moscow Domodedovo Airport.

On May 31, Russia banned the entrance to Prime Minister Markovich , the speaker of the bought-in Ivan Braiovich, ex-Prime Minister Dzhukanovich and dozens of leading Montenegrin politicians, in particular to all deputies who voted for joining NATO.

On June 2, Montenegro introduced response and financial sanctions against 149 Russians, including Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, founder of the Tsargrad television channel Konstantin Malofeev, deputy security officer of the General Council of United Russia, Sergey Zheleznyak, Director of the External Intelligence Service Sergey Naryshkin, chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Forces Valery Gerasimov, Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, Russian representative in the contact group in Minsk to resolve the situation in the east of Ukraine Sergey Gryzlov and a former commander of the Donetsk terrorists Igor Girkin.