Gusinje

A woman walks past campaign billboards for Presidential candidates Milo Djukanovic and Jakov Milatovic in Podgorica, Montenegro. Photo: EPA-EFE/BORIS PEJOVIC

Injured tourist evacuation on the mountain of Durmitor, Montenegro. Photo: Montenegro's Mountain Rescue Service

On August 3, the Mountain Service conducted two rescue missions on Mt Durmitor, when they evacuated a family from Poland and two more persons.

The ethnic Albanian vice-president of the Montenegrin parliament, Genci Nimanbegu, has claimed that Albanians, who make up about 5 per cent of the  country's population, remain discriminated against in the public sector, pointing as an example to the small multi-ethnic municipalities of Plav and Gusinje.

A local dispute has turned into became a much larger inter-ethnic row after unknown perpetrators removed a wooden cross from the foundations of St. Vasilije Ostroski church in the village of Martinaj and threw it into a nearby stream.

Ethnic Albanian parties in Montenegro protested on Tuesday against the "inadequate curriculum" their children are offered in schools in Montenegro.

They said that teaching programs in schools are not adapted to the needs of the community as the textbooks are only translations into Albanian of books written in the Montenegrin language.