Latest news from Montenegro


April 24, 2024

As a number of Western Balkan countries join the global trend toward authoritarianism, human rights are suffering, the latest Amnesty International report warns.

April 18, 2024

Exactly 25 years after Yugoslav Army troops killed six Kosovo Albanians, including two children, in a border village, President says the quest for justice and truth about the crime must continue – and a memorial should be put up to the victims.

April 17, 2024

The director of the country’s anti-corruption agency, Jelena Perovic. has been arrested in the latest in a series of actions initiated by the Special State Prosecutor’s Office.

April 15, 2024

Reflecting tougher attitudes towards femicide, a court in Montenegro has handed Ilir Djokaj the maximum sentence of 40 years in jail for shooting dead his former partner.

April 15, 2024

Prosecutor’s Office accuses former top police official Zoran Lazovic of creating a criminal organisation that former Chief Special Prosecutor Milivoje Katnic joined.

April 11, 2024

New spatial plan includes potential site for new LNG terminal opposed by environmentalists – but minister says final decision to build will be made by government and parliament.

April 3, 2024

Compeition agency to investigate whether the three companies operating in the country broke competition rules by agreeing on prices and on simultaneous price rises.

April 3, 2024

One of the greatest film directors of the former Yugoslavia, Veljko Bulajic, best-known for his World War II dramas like the Oscar-nominated ‘Battle of Neretva’, has died at the age of 96.

April 1, 2024

Montenegrin President Jakov Milatovic will initiate legislation to compensate former inmates of the Yugoslav Communist regime’s notorious Goli Otok (Barren Island) prison off the coast of Croatia.

March 28, 2024

After Montenegro’s delegate voted against accepting Kosovo into the Council of Europe, the coalition government said that ‘one MP’s position’ was ‘not the official policy of the government’.