Official Moscow has already interfered in the presidential race in Montenegro. It is using its honorary consul in Montenegro, Boro Djukic, for that purpose. Russia is providing logistical support to Marko Milacic’s presidential campaign. He used to be one of DF’s candidates for an MP and an associate to Sputnik, a media close to Kremlin.
Milacic’s election and party headquarters is located in a villa in the elite suburb of Gorica that Djukic has been using for years, Pobjeda writes.
A luxurious Mercedes jeep without front registration plates with Russian flag on it is parked in front of the house on a daily basis.
Ties between Djukic and Milacic have not been unknown, just like the True Montenegro’s presidential candidate’s closeness to the policy of Putin’s Russia.
Milacic was once a journalist and editor of the Montenegrin edition of Press tabloid, the media outlet close to radical Serbian and Russian political and security circles. Later, Milacic became a regular associate of Sputnik, the official Moscow news bulletin, a propaganda unit by which the Russian authorities tried to spread influence on the Western Balkan countries, especially Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro. Then he was particularly active as one of the Resistance to Hopelessness movement with Mladen Bojanic (the current presidential candidate of a larger part of the opposition) in the anti-NATO campaign.
Multiple Pobjeda’s sources from DF said that Russian consul Djukic had played a significant role in promoting Milacic and connecting him to political influential figures in Russia, but also in Serbia.
