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Montenegro was a success story in troubled Balkan region – now its democracy is in danger

  • Written by Marc L. Greenberg, Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Kansas
Montenegro was a success story in troubled Balkan region – now its democracy is in dangerCelebrating Montenegrin independence on May 21, 2006. Diminar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images

Tiny Montenegro has long been different from its neighbors in the former Yugoslavia.

After a decade of bloody civil wars that included ethnic cleansing and acts of genocide, Yugoslavia in the 1990s split violently along ethnic lines into six different...

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