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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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