Montenegrin people

A right-wing NGO and an obscure Orthodox church group have been accused of deliberately provoking the country's Serbian community as it gets ready to mark Orthodox Christmas Eve.

Representatives of the large Serbian community in Montenegro will meet Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic on Monday in Belgrade to seek his support about what they call their "intolerable situation" in Montenegro.

A controversial Montenegrin author has published an article claiming that Montenegrins are not Serbs - Slavs whose ancestors migrated to the Balkans.

Instead, Miroslav Cosovic writes for the Analitika website, Montenegrins are the peninsula's indigenous people.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has said that the rights of Serbs in Montenegro must be "solved by the Constitution."

Nikolic, who was in Montenegro for a regional summit, said that Serbia must care for Serbs wherever they are, and that this was one of the topics of his meetings with Montenegrin officials.

Metropolitan Amfilohije on Wednesday accused the Montenegrin authorities of "crucifying and persecuting" his Church and of wanting to "grab Church property".

At a service in Cetinje, Bishop Amfilohije said Montenegro was also trying to obstruct the legal residence of his clergy.

The mainly ethnic town of Ulcinj on the coast of Montenegro says it will declare Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and Kosovo Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci honorary citizens at a ceremony scheduled for Saturday.

The Mayor of Ulcinj, Fatmir Djeka, revealed the decision, and officials say top Montenegrin officials, including President Filip Vujanovic, will be in attendance.

PODGORICA - The council of the Montenegrin national minority will for the first time be set up in the elections for national minority councils in Serbia on Sunday, October 26.

The Montenegrin church on Sunday demanded an investigation into its Serbian rival's decision to lease a piece of land to a Qatari investor for the construction of the tourist complex on the coast.

An audience in Montenegro will a chance to see the country's first domestic film in years on Monday, when "The Boys from the Marx and Engelsa street" ("Dječaci iz ulice Marksa i Englesa") has its first public showing at the Herceg Novi film festival.

Filming has taken nearly four years because of numerous financial problems.

Activists who campaign to uphold old Yugoslav traditions protested against the government’s plan to build a cemetery for German soldiers killed in World War II in Montenegro.