Russian Tourists Love NATO's Next Member, to Moscow's Chagrin
- Montenegrins, remembering Balkan wars, are split over joining
- U.S. pushes entry to distance country from Russian influence
Montenegro's Prime Minister Dusko Markovic at NATO headquarters in Jan.
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Marijana Toskovic, a real estate agent in Montenegro, has good reason to be against her country’s entry into NATO next month. She depends on clients from Russia for more than half of her income, and the Russian government is already urging its citizens not to travel there.
Opposition would align her with almost half the citizens of this former republic of Yugoslavia, who polls show are divided on joining the military alliance given the bitter history of conflict in the Balkans.