By Ion Todescu for the Dracula Blog
Montenegro, the small Balkan state, is once again in the center of public attention now. In fact, the same man has been ruling that country since 1991 as the Prime Minister, the President and the Prime Minister again. He’s often called the last dictator in Europe; corruptionist and mafioso are his other names. Let me introduce to you Milo Djukanovic, the Prime Minister of Montenegro.
Once Montenegro had got its independence from Serbia it was put under soft governance of the U.S. and the West European countries that seemed to freeze the position of pieces on the Montenegrin political chessboard.
However, some facts show that the situation is going to change. As it’s known from a document of Ilija Dakovic, the Montenegrin military representative to NATO, Milo Djukanovic will be jailed and Milica Pejanovic-Djurisic, the acting Defense Minister, will take his place about a year after the country will have joined the NATO. She’s obviously aware of the fact and I believe she’s forming her own team now.
Here’s Dakovic’s report to the Defense Minister with a note ‘Urgent’ as of July 16, 2015: “Our reliable source doesn’t exclude that M.Djukanovic will be removed from power and put on trial for corruption and abuse of power about a year after Montenegro’s NATO integration. The acting Defense Minister is a most likely Djukanovic’s successor”.
I wonder if the Prime Minister is aware of the fact that he’s moving closer to the end of his political career while pushing Montenegro to the NATO integration. Though, he can hardly change anything in any case. Due to his numerous criminal records the only thing left is to follow the course dictated from Washington.
In the 90s Montenegro was a center of crime business of cigarette smuggling. The Italian prosecution office gathered a lot of evidence of Djukanovic’s guilt. The detailed report took 409 pages. Prosecutor Giuseppe Scelsi named Milo Djukanovic as a boss of Montenegrin mafia.
The criminal case against Djukanovic is still open in Italy up to now and Interpol got a request on his detention long ago. That’s why the protocol service of Montenegro’s administration has to coordinate every Djukanovic’s foreign visit with the law enforcement authorities of a receiving country.
A lot of truth seekers who tried to stop Djukanovic were killed. For example, journalist Dusko Jovanovic, the editor-in-chief of Montenegrin newspaper Dan, was killed in front of his office in 2004. Mr. Ivo Pukanic, the editor of Croatian magazine National, was blown up in his car in 2008. Both of them were holding their own journalistic investigations against Djukanovic.
The Court of Southern District of New York held in 2001 that Djukanovic and his sister Ana Kolarevic were involved in a corruption scheme during the privatization of Montenegrin telecommunication company Telekom Crne Gore A.D. Investigative bodies clarified that Djukanovic’s family concluded four fake contracts with Magyar Telecom and received about €7.35 million as a result.
During a long period of ruling Djukanovic and his relatives took control over main economic sectors of Montenegro.
Prime Minister Djukanovic is 100% shareholder of Capital Invest company that distributes credits from overseas investors. Djukanovic and his compadre Vuko Rajkovic are owners of Global Montenegro Investment Company. Moreover, Djukanovic holds 25% of stocks of Donja Gorica private university in Podgorica.
Milo’s wife Lidia and his brother Aco are 100 % shareholders of First Bank of Montenegro (Prva banka Crne Gore). By the way, many government members have multimillion credits in this Bank.
It’s worth mentioning that Djukanovic core capital is about €1.2 billion and these funds are located in the U.S. banks. Djukanovic’s nephew Emin Kolarevic manages his funds via three special consulting companies.
Criminal background like that makes Djukanovic is the black sheep among NATO member states’ leaders. And he is not a welcome guest in their community for sure. But the U.S. strongly supports Milo; he is very loyal and he promises to bring Montenegro into NATO. That’s the answer why he’s been in power for overt 20 years.
It appears that the accession of Montenegro to NATO in defiance of the people’s will be the last corruption-related crime of a man known as Milo Djukanovic.
P.S. Here are other Ilija Dakovic’s docs
Translation: Here’s an act of the Military Partnerships Directorate (MPD) received through the PNMR office of Montenegro at MPD/SHAPE as of 08/21/2015.
In order to improve cooperation with its partners and in accordance with the MPD annual plan MPD will hold several seminars for partnership national military representatives (PNMR) to SHAPE. The second seminar will take place at the HQ of the Air Force Command “AIRCOM” in Ramstein, Germany, on November 3-5, 2015. The main objective of the seminar is to demonstrate to PNMR the organizational structure and tasks of AIRCOM that is a part of NATO Strategic Allied Command Operations (ACO). Given that this seminar is precisely designed for PNMR we suggest that lt. col. Skupnjak Krunoslav take part in it. In accordance with NATO’s financial policy as to the partner states NATO bears the costs for transportation and accommodation while the Ministry of Defense of Montenegro bears the costs for food and per diem. MO costs will be about 225 euros. Ask for your permission.
Translation: They contacted me from the U.S. Mission to NATO about a possible meeting with Laura Gross, the Pentagon’s Director for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia on Monday, September 28 at 10am. Laura Gross will be on a visit to NATO HQ and wish to have talks on topical issues related to NATO and other bilateral issues. Ask for your consent to accept the offer.
And the Montenegrin people just stand around and do nothing. Maybe a delegation of them should go to Crimea and Donbass to learn how to revolt,”to the barricades”.
By saying this you show your total ignorance of Montenegrin mentality and their proven way of living as a free loaders for centuries, they are not stupid to cut a branch on which they sit and at this moment NATO is that branch, tomorrow will be something else , depends who has the upper hand at the moment.
So,then it seems you are saying they are parricides? I dispute that. They have a long history of resistance to oppression. Though I will agree that they aren’t living up to their history,and need to start doing so.
Is not ignorance. The same person 27 years in a little “country” with the same or Worst problem than before. And nobody does nothing!!. Now goverment cleans minds and say “new montenegrinan language, new montenegrinan church, etc… unbelievable and sad. And the people just shut up and walking without future.
Crimean’s didn’t ” revolt,”to the barricades”.” they declared Independence under Russian protection and then declared union with Russia and even then they actually suffered economic and social hardship, thankfully coming to an end.
Novorussians didn’t ” revolt,”to the barricades”.” they had to fight an ongoing war that left millions displaced, industry & infrastructure destroyed, most of their people & land under occupation and they are still struggling and all that with massive Russian support
Montenegrins with all due respect are an out-of-history city-state that has no chance of being a successful independent state (successful city-states are all fully-integrated nodes of Globalization, e.g. Singapore, Monaco, Brunei, Kuwait, Qatar, etc, etc)
I think it’s the height of political immaturity & irresponsibility for you to sit back comfortably in your armchair and demand that others destroy their country in a futile “revolt,”to the barricades”.”
Hmmm,”sitting back in my armchair” gave me the time to “actually” read Montenegro’s history. Maybe you should try that some time. They have countless times revolted against opression from great empires (and won,or at least survived).Your ideas seem to come down to, “knell and kiss your masters feet. Because otherwise you might suffer for it.” I shutter to think of what would have been the World’s fate if the Russians had taken up on your idea when Napoleon and Hitler invaded.Also,Crimea struck for independence before the Russians protected them. And certainly life is tough right now in Donbass. But as we see in Banderatan today. Its tough wherever evil is allowed to win unopposed.Had the people of Donbass not fought back,their “Russianess” would have been punished by ethnic cleaning by the fascists.
Uncle Bob is correct here.
Majority of the people of Montenegro don’t want to be a part of NATO. And they are willing to resists. In my opinion, should the government push for NATO entry without a referendum, a full scale civil war will probably break out.
For at least half of citizens of Montenegro an idea to be an official ally of Turkey against Russia is completely unimaginable. I am talking about archetypes here, something very powerful and irrational.
If Russia really wants to prevent Montenegro from entering NATO, it can realistically be prevented. Some financial aid and some public statements from Putin is all that is needed.
Let’s see.
I still bet it is not going to be decided peacefully. I still hope Russia will assist.
Wend, they’ll organise a “referendum” just like the one 2006. This will give NATO absorption an appearance of due process. That’s all.
This is well researched article, but at the end of the day, so what? If Djukanovic goes, the enemy will simply find another willing prostitute to replace him.
Nemo, I beg to differ with you concerning Sevastopol and Krimea. The citizens did, indeed, revolt while maidan was still smoldering, they did indeed set up block posts at the Krim borders with Ukraine by the following Tuesday afternoon and night after the coup in Kiev and blockaded Sevastopol’s five main roads in to the city, they did, indeed block all the major Ukraine bases in Sevastopol Region and Balaklava and this was all done before there was any word from Moscow about protection or support of any kind. In fact the Wednesday morning after the coup the Black Sea Flot commander clearly stated in a news conference that his orders were to safeguard the Flot, not the city and region of Sevastopol.
Auslander, author of Never The Last One, http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZGCY8KK
In process, The Struggle for Krimea, 2014
My dear Auslander,
I don’t know how many times you’ll have to say and repeat this, but you’ll have to keep saying it. You said so in your humorous tourism article (very interesting, thanks again) (“You were not at the barricades”), but many continue to think that when Putin spoke of “local self-defence groups” he was just trying to cover up for the presence of troops. And even when they saw the reconstruction in the video, they thought it was a kind of fiction or embellishment.
There was a very cute cartoon of a mother bear seeing someone kicking her little cub, then she is seen holding the little chappie by the hand, walking away from the knocked out bully. Very pretty picture, but you people must work hard to show that the cub was not lying down weeping when she was rescued, but found actually fighting tooth and nail.
Oh, and where is the son of Mrs. Albright who has privatized all of the communication companies in Montenegro. How is he doing in his new country of enslaved people?
I hope he is also going to receive his bill for his shady businesses.
I wonder if the US NATO embrace of 150% corrupted Turkey, now Montenegro mean the death rattles of NATO have begun in earnest? NATO cannot survive if it receives no money from it’s members and looks like Europe is heading into 15 to 20 years of deepening austerity and anger at US and it’s ravenous NATO. We can no longer be the recipient of the US war refugees. We have become too poor, jobs going.
The Americans will leave, but only after we’ve become too poor to pay for the occupation army.
We already are too poor, still believing US cooked numbers, fearing them yet,we pay out what we no longer have.
Interesting to see on the main page of this article the portrait of Vlad Tepes,the romanian king from mid-ages.Also named Dracula.Is there any relations ?
The author of the piece, Ion Todescu, sounds Romanian, and Vlad is considered by many Romanians to be a national hero.
A Russian Diplomat’s Take on the World
On Jan. 26, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held an important year-in-review press conference before an audience of about 150 journalists, including the BBC correspondent Steve Rosenberg and many other well-known representatives of mainstream Western media. The purpose of this annual event is to look back at issues faced by his Ministry over the past year and to give his appraisal of results achieved.
Lavrov’s opening remarks were concise, lasting perhaps 15 minutes, and the remaining two hours were turned over to the floor for questions. As the microphone was passed to journalists from many different countries, the discussion covered a great variety of subjects, including the likelihood of a new “re-set” with the United States, the negotiations over re-convening the Syrian peace talks in Geneva, British Prime Minister David Cameron’s comments on the findings of a U.K. public inquest into the Litvinenko murder, the possibilities for reestablishing diplomatic relations with Georgia, and prospects for resolving conflicting claims over the Southern Kurile islands so as to conclude a peace treaty with Japan.
To the best of my knowledge, not a single report of the event has yet appeared on major online American, French, British and German newspaper portals or television channels. This was not for lack of substance or newsworthy sound bites, including Lavrov’s headline comment that he agreed with Western leaders who said there would be “no business as usual” between Russia and the West.
As part of his opening comments, Lavrov said, “Our Western colleagues sometimes declare with passion that there can no longer be ‘business as usual with Russia.’ I am convinced that this is so and here we agree: there will be no more ‘business as usual’ when they tried to bind us with agreements which take into account above all the interests of either the European Union or the United States and they wanted to persuade us that this will do no harm to our interests. That history is over and done with. A new stage of history is dawning which can develop only on the basis of equal rights and all other principles of international law.”
In keeping with custom, the Russian Foreign Ministry posted the entire video recording of Lavrov’s press conference on youtube.com and posted transcripts in Russian and English on the http://www.mid.ru site. The Russian version takes up 26 tightly spaced printed pages. This is what I have used, since I prefer to go to the source and do my own translations when I have the option. The English version probably takes 40 pages, given the normal expansion from Russian to English in the translation process.
What I noted first in the television broadcast on Russia’s Pervy Kanal and then in the transcript was both how well prepared Lavrov was to deal with a plethora of issues and how he gave detailed answers that went on for many minutes without making reference to any notes.
From the press briefing, I have extracted several big chunks of text that characterize the overarching views on international relations of Lavrov and the Kremlin, applying their Realpolitik prism and focused primarily on U.S.-Russian relations. This is essential if we are not to lose sight of the forest for the trees.
https://consortiumnews.com/2016/01/29/a-russian-diplomats-take-on-the-world/
Thanks for link.
Russian military jets have, at times, been carrying out more sorties in a day in Syria than the Natoists have done in a month.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/war-in-syria-russia-s-rustbucket-military-delivers-a-hi-tech-shock-to-west-and-israel-a6842711.html
Everything stated in this analysis is quite realistic and completely within the realm of possibility. There are many indications that a Mubarak scenario is in the works for the greedy fool Djukanovic. However, the first purported message from the Montenegrin military representative at NATO HQ in Brussels addressed to the defense minister in Montenegro, dated July 16, 2015, is highly problematic. It also happens to be the most significant of the three reproduced within the article. The remaining two look OK, but their significance is not comparable to this one in terms of supporting the conclusions that are being drawn.
There are two major problems in this letter. First, the syntax is wrong in several places. I am not sure that a native speaker would have made such gross mistakes, unless he was very, very sloppy. However, there is no comparable sloppiness in the other two letters, although they are longer. Second, the dialectal peculiarities of the Serbian language as spoken in Montenegro are not respected. It is phrased in the way someone from central Serbia would have done it. In contrast, in the remaining two letters, purportedly from the same author, these peculiarities are respected, thus reinforcing the impression of their authenticity, on that level at least.
Also, the remaining two letters seem to have been written professionally, in proper bureaucratese, as you would expect under the circumstances. The first and most critical letter, by contrast, is written carelessly, without proper introduction or context (as in the remaining two). All these factors make it highly suspicious.
Nevertheless, based on other and more reliable sources we can confirm the basic thrust of the author’s analysis.
Montenegro or Crna Gora is a artificial puppy state create with NATO ( USA) and EU support against many people who wanted to be union with Serbia.
The same man Milo Djukanovic is the power chief of a little state. 27 years after that state with just 600,000 inhabitants have more than 30% without money. Its unbelivable just 600,000 people and 30% or more in poor condition and nobody does nothing!!!.
The real Montenegro is a part of Serbia. This Montenegro or Milo Gora ( Crna Gora) is a little mafia private Milo Djukanovic’s, albanians and UE’s Club…
Regards
José Luis