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[Blue Lou]

Serbia has deported a group of Russians suspected of involvement in a coup plot in neighbouring Montenegro, the Guardian has learned, in the latest twist in a murky sequence of events that apparently threatened the lives of two European prime ministers.

The plotters were allegedly going to dress in police uniforms to storm the Montenegrin parliament in Podgorica, shoot the prime minister, Milo Ðjukanović, and install a pro-Moscow party.

The Russian fingerprints on the October plot have heightened intrigue about Moscow’s ambitions in a part of Europe hitherto thought to be gravitating towards the EU’s orbit.

A group of 20 Serbians and Montenegrins, some of whom had fought with Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, were arrested in Podgorica, the Montenegrin capital. In Serbia, meanwhile, several Russian nationals suspected of coordinating the plot were caught with €120,000 and special forces uniforms.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ussians-suspected-of-plotting-montenegro-coup

 

[MGrant]

Assassinating a state leader never set off any kind of clusterfuck in Europe before, right?

More seriously, this is the answer for all of you who keep asking "Why are closer relations with Russia a bad thing?"

 

[amar212]

I am surprised. Not. Come on, it is not even a story when one is aware what has happened around him and with him through past 20 years.

I would love to see a dossiers of ex-Yugoslav countries secret services about Djukanovic. It is probably absolutely unbelievable read.

 

[Tugatrix]

Putin trying to lay his hands on his backyard again

 

[fanboi]

Assassinating a state leader never set off any kind of clusterfuck in Europe before, right?

More seriously, this is the answer for all of you who keep asking "Why are closer relations with Russia a bad thing?"

But if they had closer this wouldn't have happened!

 

[qcf x2]

Assassinating a state leader never set off any kind of clusterfuck in Europe before, right?

More seriously, this is the answer for all of you who keep asking "Why are closer relations with Russia a bad thing?"

America, on the other hand, would never ever attempt such a thing.

 

[FStop7]

America, on the other hand, would never ever attempt such a thing.

LMAO what is this post

 

[JonnyDBrit]

Assassinating a state leader never set off any kind of clusterfuck in Europe before, right?

More seriously, this is the answer for all of you who keep asking "Why are closer relations with Russia a bad thing?"

Bonus points: Its the Balkans again.

 

[mjontrix]

Bonus points: Its the Balkans again.

Bonus bonus points - this is all an elaborate scheme for the Pink Panthers to distract everyone sp they can strike.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

America, on the other hand, would never ever attempt such a thing.

What's your point?

 

[qcf x2]

What's your point?

That planning political coups/assassinations is something many countries do, including our own. If it's ghastly when other countries do it, it should be ghastly to know that we do it / attempt to do it as well. That's my only point, the guy I was replying to was 100% right though, it's not a good thing and has obviously had catastrophic consequences in European history. And we seem to be teetering on the edge of something big/bad.