Friday, June 3 - The higher court in Podgorica acquitted Oleg Obradović and Miodrag Ivanović of the accusation "that as co-perpetrators, by abuse of position, they obtained a benefit of 2,3 million euros to a company from London in the name of a fictitious contract on consulting services, to the detriment of Monet and Telekom".
That's it, eleven years of accusations were denied in one complex sentence.
So, what are we going to do now?
Unfortunately, nothing. No prosecutor in Montenegro has ever ended up before a disciplinary panel, let alone a criminal panel. Not because of a false indictment for war crimes, let alone for theft.
I only know about Oleg Obradović from the media, but I met Miodrag Ivanović a decade and a half ago, when - unfortunately, not for long - he was the director of Pobjeda.
I knew that he did not abuse his position, benefit a foreign company at the expense of a domestic one, and conclude fictitious contracts in 2011, when the affair was started.
Because in Montenegro, wholesale theft is not an acute but a chronic disorder of morals, once it starts, it doesn't stop. If Ivanovic had such inclinations, Pobjeda was an ideal destination. It was already in the face of twenty million euros - just as much as Plantaže last year - he could comfortably "finish" 2-3, it wouldn't even be felt.
He did the opposite, tried to save her from financial ruin. And moral, which was much more important to me.
He did not manage to stop the vocabulary of hatred, pranks and lies in the infamous feature about the owners and journalists of Vijesti and Monitor, but at least he tried. It's a pity that the powers of the director of Pobjeda in editing the newspaper were even after the "war for peace" equaled to mine.
Coincidentally or not, it was only after that conflict that a fictitious affair was born, which was ruled by the High Court today. In the meantime, it served very well to cover up the real "Telecom Affair".
How many more real corruption cases are covered up by the production of fictitious ones, we will find out if the Supreme State Prosecutor keeps her word and reviews all suspicious indictments.
Provided that - after the DPS's warning that in the event of such a scenario, the party's response will be unequivocal and clear - he will be able to maintain it at all.
And how to stop the media judgment before the court?
Well, I would have a lot of ideas, but their realization would also cause a lot of problems.
To begin with, not even half of the media would pass the legality check, and not even half of the journalists would pass the professional check...
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Saturday, June 4 - Do you believe that Milo Đukanović will go into political retirement at the end of his presidential term - asked a Nova journalist.
- I believe they will - answered Prime Minister Dritan Abazović.
I would also believe that I had not heard the same answer - to the same question, only the mandate - at the end of the last century.
And then in November 2002. And November 2006. And June 2009. And December 2010. And November 2016. And January 2018...
As of August 30, 2020, he leaves on a daily basis...
And it's still here. And it won't go away in 2023 either.
I wouldn't either if there were almost two hundred thousand people from Depees, Esdeo, Esdepe and parties of minority peoples with me...
And that for me the presidential campaign, even if indirectly, is already being led by European officials.
And that geopolitical circumstances make me a security factor in the Balkans again.
And that my domicile opponents, with fairy tales about arrests that they themselves do not believe, maintain the integrity of even those supporters who occasionally disobeyed me...
And there is no more room for the question of whether someone from the West guarantees that Đukanović will be protected.
Vladimir Putin already gave him all the necessary guarantees by invading Ukraine...
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Sunday, June 5 - The fifth anniversary of Montenegro joining NATO. About whom I think the same as three decades ago, when during the killing of Sarajevo he took the position of the OSCE and responded to the grenades - with announcements.
I don't know if he would defend Montenegro in the same way, because it has not (yet) been attacked.
Well, Dmitry Rogozin did threaten intercontinental ballistic missiles, but he will discuss it with the command in Brussels because he threatened not only Montenegro, but also Romania and Bulgaria.
What Montenegro has to discuss with itself is the "coup d'état" which was the main driving force behind its accelerated entry into NATO.
Five and a half years have passed, and the public still does not know the truth about October 16, 2016, which ignited Montenegrin-Serbian disputes much more fiercely than May 21, 2006.
There is no answer even to the initial question - whether the terrorist attack was prepared at all.
If so, who prepared it - Russian agents, domestic politicians or Western intelligence services.
When I say local politicians, I mean the government, which was the only one capable of preparing such an election day for us.
And she was the only one who benefited from that day. And that - uh, as I like to quote myself from October 18, 2016 - threefold.
First, at the end of a hilarious day, the regime won an election it would have lost without that hilarity.
Second, he forced the country into NATO without problems, even though the overwhelming majority of citizens were against it.
Thirdly, he pacified the chief special state prosecutor, who, according to the head of the DPS, "got a little carried away" with statements that there are no untouchables above the convicted chief party ideologist...
A little later, the fourth goal was also achieved - the final of the court's return, which we watched live.
And the death penalty was such that, even after the arrest of Vesna Medenica, we cannot hope for a review of the dubious verdicts. Until other judges who ruled according to the wishes of their children and their politicians follow in her footsteps...
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Monday, June 6 - What is this about the Democrats, it has been a long time since there was a party on the political scene that envied itself so much.
Instead of arguing with their opponents in accordance with their own name and in my TV diaries they get a privileged status like all the opposition has had for 30 years, they do not suffer with hate speech and insults.
That scandalous address to the "drone prime minister of the Kavac clan" has just been forgotten, when here is the indictment against his party.
Well, Ura could have refrained from retaliating by mentioning the skalars, but that cannot be a justification for a counterattack under the jurisdiction of the Counterintelligence Department of the ANB.
- We suggest that the SNP join forces with the legitimate pro-Albanian URA in Pljevlja and thus try to cash in on their right-wing activism in this municipality as well - said the Democrats.
Of course, the work of any party for the state of Albania, or any party, cannot be legitimate. If in this sense Ura is called pro-Albanian, then it is a charge of a serious crime, which is punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
If Ura is accused of being pro-Albanian because she works for the Albanians in Montenegro, the Democrats have definitely failed.
Giving a negative connotation to the work in favor of (i) the Albanian people in Montenegro is not associated with the fight against division, but with - chauvinism...
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Tuesday, June 7 - Thank God and the Montenegrin talik, there are more people in Montenegro who are ripe for collective psychotherapy than for European integration. And the fuss over the banning of the overflight of the Russian plane is more reminiscent of the symptoms of addiction than the expression of a political stance...
It is said that 85 percent of citizens are in favor of joining the European Union.
This entry is possible only according to EU directives/recommendations.
One of those directives/recommendations includes sanctions due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The problem is not only that support for European integration excludes support for Russian invasion. But, if we're being honest, the sanctions of Montenegro against Russia are no match for those that - exactly thirty years ago - Russia and the rest of the world imposed on Montenegro.
Just because she was a member of the FRY! And despite the fact that, as a country, it did not participate in the invasion of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Unlike Montenegro today, Russia then had the right of veto and could prevent Resolution 757 and a dozen others that:
- prohibited import and export of all products and raw materials;
- prohibited transit of any goods, including food and medicine;
- all financial transactions are prohibited;
- prohibited use of all ships - they were later confiscated - and aircraft;
- participation of all athletes in all sports events is prohibited;
- prohibited cooperation not only with all scientific, technical and cultural institutions, but also with all individuals who were engaged in science, technology and culture.
All that, including starvation and hyperinflation during which bread reached the price of 500.000.000.000 (five hundred billion), Russia could have prevented.
She did not do that, she used the right of veto only once, and that was because of a border crossing near Bihać.
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Wednesday, June 8 - President Milo Đukanović met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.
- Đukanović expressed satisfaction with the fact that this is the first visit of the Montenegrin head of state to the Ecumenical Patriarchate after 1899, when Prince Nikola stayed in Istanbul - his office announced.
The founders of the belvedere tradition still do not agree on the question of whether the autocephaly of the Montenegrin Church from the time of King Nikola was kept silent only in the announcement or in the conversation with the patriarch.
- The president introduced the patriarch to the historical circumstances in which Montenegro repeatedly restored its independence and international subjectivity - it is stated below.
It was not stated whether he also informed him about the restoration of the work of the CPC in 1993.
- In this connection, he referred to the deep historical ties between the Mother Church and the Montenegrin state - the announcement says.
Nothing is said about the historical ties of the aforementioned Daughter Church with the Mother Church and with the Montenegrin state, which the Daughter ruled for a long time.
From the extensive press release, we learn that President Đukanović also told Patriarch Bartholomew:
- the current socio-political moment;
- plans related to the strategic direction in which our country is moving;
- the importance of Montenegro joining NATO;
- European and Euro-Atlantic integrations, which are synonymous with stability for our region...
Masa also mentioned that, but there is no mention of the Montenegrin Church.
Impossible, so he joined the Ecumenical Patriarchate because of her?!
No, but to baptize Milo Đukanović Jr. in it, cheers to him.
And to the elder's credit, he finally admitted what he really thinks about the Montenegrin Orthodox Church...
And like a grandfather.
And as President...
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Thursday, June 9 - I sincerely apologize to the Democrats, but I have to mention them one more time.
I trained myself by searching the portals for Momo Koprivica's answer to the Ecumenical Patriarch.
How to what?
Well, to Bartolomej's statement that he had "greater pleasure and joy" in hosting Milo Đukanović than Aleksa Bečić...
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