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Sunday, January 09, 2011

Montenegro: Split in ruling DPS looms

Podgorica, 7 Jan. (AKI) – Montenegro’s ruling Democratic Party of Socialists may be heading for a split, two weeks after the resignation of its supreme leader Milo Djukanovic as prime minister, local media reported on Friday.

Djukanovic, 48, who had ruled the country for the past twenty years, resigned on 21 December, only a few days after Montenegro was granted the status of official candidate for European Union membership.

The EU has tied Montenegro’s pre-accession talks to an intensified fight against organised crime and corruption and the judicial reform.

A few days after the resignation of Djukanovic and his deputy premier Svetozar Marovic, Montenegro police arrested ten people in Marovic’s Adriatic home town of Budva on corruption charges.

Among those arrested were Budva mayor Rajko Kuljaca and his deputy Dragan Marovic, the former vice-premier’s brother.

Djukanovic is considered Montenegro’s political 'godfather'. He is suspected of having mysteriously accumulated enormous wealth and has retained the post of DPS president. He is said to be running the country from behind the scenes, despite the appointment of a new prime minister, Igor Luksic.

Svetozar Marovic retained the post of DPS vice-president. But Podgorica daily Vijesti said Marovic was under strong pressure from his Budva group to split with the DPS (who are reformed communists) and to form his own party.

“The talks are going on daily, but Marovic still doesn’t want to say whether he wants to join that project,” Vijesti sad.

After his brother’s arrest, Marovic said that it was clear from the start that he, not his brother, was “a political target” of Budva arrests.

Djukanovic, a controversial figure, was investigated by Italian prosecutors in Bari for an alleged multi-million euro cigarette smuggling scheme, but no charges were pressed against him.

Vijesti said Marovic was about to reveal “murky business deals made by Djukanovic”. But he decided to keep silent after meeting with Djukanovic, Luksic and president Filip Vujanovic to protect his brother Dragan.

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New York Times article published May 21, 1911

"ALBANIAN JOAN OF ARC: Handsome Heroine Takes Father's Place and Vanquishes Turks" – Cetinja, May 21, 1911 - A young girl, whose first name corresponds to that of the given name of the Maid of Orleans, is now being sung in the songs of the Montenegrin bards in the inns and coffee houses in Podgorica. When at the battle of Vranje last week, her father, the hereditary commander of his clan, fell, she immediately stepped to his place and led the Martinajs to victory against the Turks. Aside from the romantic phase of the affair, for Janitza Martinaj (Tringa e Grudes) is very beautiful, the battle is important as showing that the Montenegrins on the frontier had joined with the Albanians. According to a person who is well acquainted with her, this new Joan of Arc is “a tall, handsome, well-developed young woman. All the Albanian women are brave, and are trained from their girlhood to the use of firearms, and in times of war, as there are no mules, they carry the provisions and ammunition for their soldiers and go into the firing line to distribute them.” “And are sometimes killed?” “Yes, often that happens.” Janitza would probably have carried a Martini rifle; or, as many of the Marininis were collected last year by the Turks, her weapon may perhaps have been one of the old-fashioned Albanian rifles, which are handsomely decorated with silver and have very long, narrow barrels. Shooting is almost the only amusement of the young men and women in Albania. Both boys and girls learn to shoot when they are 12 years old. At weddings the parties amuse themselves by dancing and shooting: at christenings shootings is again the principal amusement – firing at large targets for some little prize – and at festivals there is shooting all day long. It’s one of the great difficulties that Turks have to contend with, for it is part of the national life; the people use their rifles by day and sleep with them by their side by night. The custom has grown up with the prevailing insecurity from vendettas at home and border troubles abroad. Physically, the Albanians are the finest race in Europe. Their women are handsome, with dark hair, though their eyes are sometimes gray. To see them walk is a delight. We like to see the ballet in Servia. The first time I saw the Albanians walk it gave me just the same pleasure. Their movements are so graceful, elegance and strength together. Yes, they are a very fine and very gifted race. They are like the Scots in the 17th century, and they will be by and by the finest race, intellectually as well as physically, in the Balkans. If you go to Constantinople you will find that many of the finest men, not only soldiers but also statesmen are Albanians. Their fault, due to their present degree of civilization, is that they cannot grasp the idea of State. The clan is their highest organization; they are unable to see the importance of combining the clan with the higher organization of making a state. But that will come.

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Montenegro: Split in ruling DPS looms

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