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economy engagement apart from its geostrategic aims to foster the image to the citizens of these countries in improving their life quality.
Russia ' s confrontation with the West recently, remains the one with Montenegro, which is on the verge of joining the NATO, and for this reason it was organized an assassination attempt against former Prime Minister Djukanovic. This attempt was intended by a party close to the Russian policy, in order to take the power of the state. Montenegro’ s government managed to stop the execution of this plan, which, according to Prosecutor of Montenegro, was organized by the Russian agenda and attempted to run from former senior commanders of the Serbian police 9.
This may be termed as the ' boiling point ' between Russia and the West before a high risk of direct confrontation. Adding Kosova too which remains through its north a gateway to Russia, and of course through Serbia. Kosovo currently is in political crisis and the country is still pending. Its government, is not able to convince the parliament to vote the agreement for demarcation with Montenegro and the Association of Serb Municipalities in Kosovo. A part of the political spectrum and experts disagree with how the government wants to vote demarcation with Montenegro after that, consider the measurements are wrong. On the other hand, the government insists that the demarcation should be voted. In this point it ' s also involved the international community( US and EU) by pressuring the agreement on demarcation with Montenegro to be voted by the parliament and also the Association of Serb Municipalities. It has to have a general social polarization around the two voting agreements as the one contested by the other party. Adding to this the other challenges, especially sabotaging made to Kosovo ' s statehood by the government of Serbia, Kosovo can easily be destabilized and thus empower Russian influence in any case the internal confrontation. One such case was the provocation with ' Russian train ', which was launched by Belgrade to Mitrovica( Kosovo), without the prior permission of the Kosovo authorities. This train was Russian donation to the Serbian railways. The train as a way to justify itis provocative tendency, it was decorated with frescoes Church of monasteries in Kosovo.
Another country that we need to pay attention is Macedonia. This state, bolis from within and after the elections can not afford to form a new government. The party of former prime minister found a new partner and now he is trying to prevent all forms of government formation by the party of
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Reconstruction: The full incredible story behind Russia’ s deadly plot to stop Montenegro embracing the West http:// www. telegraph. co. uk / news / 2017 / 02 / 18 / reconstruction-full-incredible-story-behind-russias-deadly-plot /
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