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By Ljubomir Filipovic, CdM observer
We need to get used to the new rules of communication and new ways of behaving and greeting. Yesterday, we were greeted by the national broadcaster’s presenter with “God helps” while airing the enthronement of the new Serbian bishop of the north Montenegro, Metodije. All ministers and gendarmes were in the audience and no one respected the measures. The camera also caught the Prime Minister at the time of the communion, but the footage was quickly removed. No one is showing a shred of shame, except perhaps Minister Milojko Spajic, who apologized for not wearing a mask at the event.
While we watched a Berane resident seriously saying that chemtrails were deliberately used to poison the gathered, a photo of the Government of Montenegro among those present showed a representative of the Tivat’s St. Panteleimon Serbian Orthodox Youth Brotherhood, Igor Samardzic. Samardzic was previously noticed in public when, ahead of the enthronement of Metropolitan Joanikije in Cetinje, he posted a gruesome comment on Facebook. “We hope that on 5 September, there will be a symbolic 8,372 Milogorci (*Milo’s supporters) in Cetinje”, he wrote earlier, alluding to the number of people killed in the genocide in Srebrenica. I don’t want to insult all the people who gathered there, but it’s time for many of them to open their eyes and realize that a huge freak show is being made around them, all together with the paratrooper bishop Jovan Culibrk, who jumped from a parachute with a flag.
Read the comment of my colleague Miras Dusevic on how this event revealed the complete domination of the Serbian Church over politics in Montenegro, and how epidemiological measures are respected only by those who have to.
Humiliation of Montenegrin sports
There is nothing new in Vesna Bratic’s Ministry – chaos, inaction, non-transparency – or what URA MP Milos Konatar would say – “a lot of good things”. Now, Vesna has almost, intentionally or accidentally, come to deprive Montenegro of the right to participate in sports competitions, and deprive athletes of the right to participate under their own flag. She blamed everything on the acting director of the Directorate for Sports and Youth Vasilije Lalosevic and sent a statement to the media. She then asked for the statement to be withdrawn, but a scandal broke out and the SNP reacted. Lalosevic accused Vijesti columnist Marko Begovic, who replaced him as director, that he, as “Bratic’s secret consultant”, was directly responsible for the whole scandal.
You can read more about the whole event in the analysis/comment by Aleksandra Obradović – Is someone intentionally ruining Montenegrin sports.
Escobar: Russia and DF’s interfering in Govt.
Gabriel Escobar, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs and the new envoy of the State Department for the Western Balkans, said in an interview for the Voice of America that Russia is destabilizing Montenegro.
“I know I keep coming back to that, but European integration and NATO membership are very important tools, but so are messages to individual parties and governments that introducing destabilizing factors into governments, and government positions, is a very worrying phenomenon”, Escobar pointed out.
Sloppiness in the ACG
The Executive Director of the Airports of Montenegro (ACG), Goran Jandreoski, in addition to his respectable international biography, is about to be fired, CdM has learned from an ACG source. The reason for his dismissal is allegedly an open conflict with the ACG’s Board of Directors, due to the direct abuse of authority of the Board members, who want to put their people in key positions in the company despite being exclusively politically committed and without professional experience.
I remind you that this would be the second dismissal of professionals at the head of ACG since the change of government.
Budva combinations
While we have all almost realized Carevic’s combinations with asphalting and public procurement, and while his prosecution for the usurpation of state property is allegedly being prepared, he strikes back at those who nailed all this to him – the Democrats, disclosing from the archives the alleged combination of Budva’s Democrat leader Krsto Radovic.
In the Municipality of Budva, with a very weak opposition, everything is currently reduced to a competition over who is the bigger Serb and to mutual accusations of “who stole more with the DPS”. The city and its residents thus remain trapped in the fact that one Mediterranean place is turning into a Chetnik province, and that its Venetian walls are being desecrated with banners in support of nationalist outbursts throughout the Serbian World.
Recommendations for reading
In the excellent analysis by my colleague Miras Dusevic, read how the Minister JBB threw 21,000 vaccines in the trash thanks to her reluctance and irresponsibility.
In his text for Okruzenje and in a statement for Pobjeda, the President of the European Movement for Montenegro, Momcilo Radulovic, criticized the Open Balkans initiative.
That’s it for today. Enjoy the rest of the day.
