That the Russian company Miraks does not and has never had a good opinion of Montenegro, apart from the constant violation of its laws, is also shown by the text in their magazine "Elite Guide to Montenegro".
The author of the text "Characteristics of the Montenegrin Mentality" Vladimir Moisejev calls Montenegrins highway robbers, robbers, liars, lazy people, irresponsible mountain Slavs whose word you cannot rely on, great lovers "of themselves", good traders and middlemen, those who do not return money. ...
Moisejev first talks about the historical connection between Russia and Montenegro, but also about the life of Montenegrin ancestors in order to better understand "the life of today's Montenegrins".
- History says that Montenegrins (and Serbs) behave very well towards Russia and Russians. They were also helped a lot by the Russian emperors - many historical monuments, churches and monasteries were built here with their money. And now, while walking down the street, you can receive a branch with tangerines as a gift from a completely unknown person just because you are Russian - the text states.
But there is another side of the national character. The author says that "mountainous Slavs have always lived in excellent natural conditions and knew much better how to make war than how to cultivate the land". One of their basic incomes was "robbing caravans that were going from Serbia to the coast (it doesn't matter whose Serbian or Turkish)", stating that in Montenegro there was a law according to which it was forbidden for a Montenegrin to leave the house without a weapon. Moisejev says that his friends from Montenegro told him that "when salt, tobacco or money were bought in a Montenegrin family, the man first looks for a friend from the neighborhood and goes into ambush on the nearest trade route. If he does not show up at home within a week, the woman goes to him with a piece of dried meat, cheese, a slice of bread and wine. And so until a suitable prey rich to the teeth comes along".
- This way of life of the ancestors is still present today - Montenegrins - good traders and intermediaries. Even now, a man often leaves home in the morning, sits in a cafe, drinks coffee and talks about his favorite topics. Of course, every third person is an acquaintance or relative. And so he drinks coffee and waits for a "good case" (a Russian, English or German) who will show interest in some real estate. Then, he conducts a trade transaction and for the next six months "he doesn't have to exert himself too much in the tavern" - the text states.
Moisejev says that Montenegrins love themselves a lot and are very lazy, which he substantiates with examples. In the first example (about how they love themselves), one of his friends traveled to Moscow and left his car with a Montenegrin friend who crashed it "in smoke", and when he returned from Russia, the Montenegrin answered him "why did you give me a car? If I had died, you would have paid my daughter's pension!). In another example (about laziness), "his Russian acquaintance sold strawberries in cups in Montenegro at the market near the house for one euro, and when the locals complained that it was expensive, she suggested that they go to the garden and pick them for free. The answer was - why should I bend so much for one euro".
- Another interesting trait is irresponsibility. As you know, there is an empirical law according to which 15 percent of power solves 85 percent of problems. In Montenegro, no one tries to get out of the top 15 percent, and most of them don't even get there. And, to the question "and can..." they answer "and why not". That way, in case of failure, the responsibility is not theirs. And another interesting feature is lying. They themselves even have a classification of people "this one keeps his word and this one doesn't". Those who keep their word are obviously less than ten percent of the population, and maybe not more than one - explains Moiseyev.
The author advises to end the work with Montenegrins immediately and to run away, and not to leave them any advance (because they don't like to return money).
- If you leave something for tomorrow, it may happen that on the way to you, he will meet his aunt's grandmother or some other relative (the country is small, so the compactness of relatives and acquaintances is great) and he will not be able to pass by them without contacting them. And about five such random encounters can happen, and you waste precious time waiting. Sometimes until night. At the same time, it is usually incomprehensible to them that it is not nice and that they should call and apologize, while their answer is "well, I couldn't pass by" - says the author, who ends the text with "a detail" that his acquaintance from Moscow, who deals in real estate, always in the luggage when traveling to Montenegro, the most space is occupied by books in order to "pass the time while waiting for colleagues".
After this "detailed analysis of the Montenegrin mentality", we should ask ourselves what we really are and who are our partners who advertise us outside the borders of Montenegro.
The Montenegrin public first heard about the Miraks group, which is backed by the Russian billionaire Sergey Polonsky, when they began the illegal construction of the luxury tourist complex Astra Montenegro on Cape Zavala near Budva, which envisaged the construction of 30 villas for sale and rent and a 27-story hotel. .
Although the urban plans for Cape Zavala were not finished, the construction of villas was started, and the inspection got involved in the whole case only after pressure from the media and the non-governmental sector. Miraks, whose partner at the beginning of their business in Montenegro was the vice-president of DPS and the most powerful man from Budva, Svetozar Marović, this summer opened the "Miracle Lounge" discotheque on Topliš hill above Budva on the former construction site, where the Aqua park was supposed to be built. The discotheque, which hosts numerous parties until dawn and concerts by famous world and regional stars, does not have a license to operate as a night club. It is registered in the municipality as a coffee bar that can work until one hour after midnight.
Sails are no longer even in brochures
It is interesting that in the Miraks guide, in the section showing the Astra Montenegro complex on Zavala, there is no planned hotel in the shape of a sail, which was supposed to have 27 floors and be the first seven-star hotel in the Mediterranean.
Miraks avoids public mention of the second phase of the Astra Montenegro project, and we should not forget that the AP agency recently reported that Polonski declared bankruptcy and that the court froze all assets of Miraks due to non-payment of a debt of 242 million dollars, which stopped the company's attractive projects such as Federation Towers in Moscow. The Miraks company in Montenegro denied such allegations.
On the list of Forbes magazine, the wealth of Polonsky, who became famous in early 2008 with the sentence that "those who don't have a billion can go to hell", was worth 1,2 billion dollars last year. Analysts estimate that Mirax owes between $600 million and $700 million.
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