Accession of Montenegro to anti-Russian sanctions: what next?
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Accession of Montenegro to anti-Russian sanctions: what next?
Montenegro's support of the EU on the introduction of anti-Russian sanctions caused a real storm both in the periodicals and in the blogosphere. It would seem that essentially nothing has changed, serious trade between Russia and Montenegro has not happened, it will not, but the reaction of the Russian audience to this step was genuine resentment and pain. Someone writes that he is selling tickets bought to go on vacation to Montenegro, someone caps-lokom exclaims: I thought we were brothers! That's just not clear who is all this addressed.
Some analysts predict a variant of the development of events, much more interesting than the ban on the importation of several meat machines per year. Anti-Russian sanctions drove a huge wedge into two serious areas, for the development of which Montenegro should have continued to be friends with Russia: these are investments in real estate and tourism. Restrictions on this matter (so far!) No, but the actual outflow of Russian finance will, in this doubt is not necessary. But in fact, all these years Russia was in the first place in terms of the number of tourists in Montenegro, and private and commercial Montenegrin real estate of Russian citizens has always been more interested than other neighbors.
Experts fear the abolition of the visa-free regime - a decision that can deprive Montenegro of about a third of Russian tourists in the first year, not to mention the next. However, on whom to bet, to solve first of all the Assembly, as experience shows.
The blogosphere is teeming with the desperate statements of the Montenegrins. The Assembly is not a people, and for the decisions of the top we are very ashamed before you. This is the leitmotif. Well, the people's lips ... In the end, the spring scandal in the Montenegrin media about the fraudulent results of the last vote on joining NATO still fresh in memory. On paper, the population of Montenegro wants to Block, but on the facts of a special aspiration somehow was not observed and is not observed.
Therefore, it is hardly fair to say that Montenegro joined the sanctions. The Skupshchina joined them, and it seems that Montenegro and the Skupschina have long been not the same. But the fact remains that decisions are made by the authorities. On the agenda - possible changes in the visa policy and the appropriation of residence permit.
President Philip Vujanovic said that the only goal of the country's accession to sanctions was its desire to speed up the process of joining NATO and become a member of the EU. Therefore, one should expect that all subsequent directives will be carried out diligently and rigorously, no matter how they react to the population.
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