PODGORICA, Montenegro — It has the plot of a thriller, even if it doesn’t read like one.
In long, tangled sentences, an indictment filed by the chief prosecutor in Montenegro lays out a story of Russian agents recruiting mercenaries to storm parliament on election day and stop the small Balkan state from joining NATO.
The 135-page indictment will be tested in a trial that gets under way in the capital Podgorica on Wednesday. But if there was a plot to thwart NATO membership, it failed. The country of 620,000 people will become the alliance’s 29th member by early next month. Nevertheless, Montenegro …read more
Source: European Voice
