By Tsarizm Staff | June 7, 2020
As Europe’s longest ruler, it is a surprise that Milo Djukanovic [1] is only 58. He has served as prime minister or president of various iterations of Montenegro since 1991 – spanning the collapse of Yugoslavia and across and beyond independence of the nation in 2006.
What is the secret to Mr Djukanovic’s success? The answer is depressingly predictable: clientelism [2] and the buying – or, depending on your perspective, stealing – of power [3].CARTOONS [4] | MICHAEL RAMIREZ [5]VIEW CARTOON [6]
The beauty of Montenegro hides this ugly truth. Most know it as a tourist idyll with pristine beaches, crystal lakes and picturesque mountains. But holidaymakers rarely realize they enter less a country, more a private fiefdom, run for the benefit of the president and the small coterie that surrounds him…
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