{"id":1744,"date":"2017-03-15T00:33:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T00:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2017-03-15T00:33:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T00:33:53","slug":"russia-possibly-tried-to-kill-montenegro-pm-says-british-foreign-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/03\/15\/russia-possibly-tried-to-kill-montenegro-pm-says-british-foreign-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"RUSSIA POSSIBLY TRIED TO KILL MONTENEGRO PM, SAYS BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Ian Allen<\/p>\n

Boris Johnson, the British foreign secretary has said in an interview that Russian spies may have orchestrated last year\u2019s failed attempt to kill the then-prime minister of Montenegro, Milo Dukanovi\u0107.<\/p>\n

Mr. Johnson, a senior figure in the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom, was a major contender for the prime minister\u2019s position in 2016, after the administration of David Cameron collapsed under the weight of the Brexit vote result. Speaking on Sunday morning to reporter Robert Peston, of Britain\u2019s ITV television network, Mr. Johnson said that the West should \u201cengage\u201d with Russia, but warned that it should also \u201cbeware\u201d of Moscow\u2019s \u201cdirty tricks\u201d in Europe and the United States.<\/p>\n

The British foreign secretary spoke following reports that British intelligence services called an emergency meeting with representatives of the country\u2019s major political parties, in order to warn them that Russia planned to use cyber-attacks to disrupt regional and national elections in the country.<\/p>\n

Mr. Johnson said that the government had \u201cno evidence the Russians are actually involved in trying to undermine our democratic processes at the moment\u201d. But he added that there was \u201cplenty of evidence that the Russians are capable of doing that. And there is no doubt\u201d, he went on, \u201cthat they\u2019ve been up to all sorts of dirty tricks\u201d. Some of those \u201cdirty tricks\u201d, said Mr. Johnson, targeted the former Yugoslav Republic of Montenegro, where last year there was \u201can attempted coup and possibly an attempted assassination\u201d.<\/p>\n

The British politician was referring to allegations made last October by authorities in Montenegro that \u201cnationalists from Russia\u201d and Serbia were behind a failed plot to kill the country\u2019s then-Prime Minister Milo Dukanovi\u0107 and spark a pro-Russian coup in the country.<\/p>\n

The allegations surfaced after 20 Serbians and Montenegrins were arrested by police in Montenegro for allegedly planning a military coup against the government. The arrests took place on election day, October 16, as Montenegrins were voting across the Balkan country of 650,000 people. The plotters had allegedly hired a \u201clong-distance sharpshooter\u201d who was \u201ca professional killer\u201d for the task of killing \u0110ukanovi\u0107.<\/p>\n

After killing the Prime Minister, the plotters planned to storm the parliament and prompt a pro-Russian coup in Montenegro, according to authorities. In response to allegations that the coup had been hatched in neighboring Serbia, Serbian Prime Minister Vu\u010di\u0107 said that he would not allow Serbia to \u201cact as the puppet of world powers\u201d, a comment that was clearly directed at Moscow. Russia vehemently denied the allegations.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Mr. Johnson is preparing to visit Moscow in a few days to meet with his Russian counterpart, Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov. He told ITV that he planned to deliver his \u201cpersonal feeling\u201d to Mr. Lavrov, which \u201cis one of deep, deep sadness\u201d about Russia\u2019s foreign policy under President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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