Russia Was Behind Coup, Assassination Plot, Montenegro Says

Russia tried to overthrow Montenegro’s government and assassinate former Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic during last year’s general elections, a prosecutor in the former Yugoslav republic said.

Evidence collected by authorities in Podgorica show that “nationalist structures from Russia” were behind the plan to oust Djukanovic “but now we know that Russian state bodies were also involved,” Milivoje Katnic, the country’s special prosecutor, said on TV late Sunday. “It’s up to Russian state institutions to investigate how this happened.”