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Discussion

In the presentation is discussed pro-Russian propaganda in Montenegro since the outbreak of Russian aggression against Ukraine. Montenegro, a member of NATO and a negotiator for joining the EU, is a country with extremely strong Russian influence, which is realized through the media, religious organizations, cultural societies and political parties.

Although Montenegro has formally harmonized its policy with the European Union regarding the introduction of sanctions against the Russian Federation and the condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine and the sending of aid to Ukraine, the extremely potent presence of Russian malign influence is felt in the country affecting the overall social and political life. Propaganda campaign is actively and successfully carried out through the pro-Russian media, the narratives of the pro-Russian political parties and the activities of the Serbian Orthodox Church as the strongest religious organization in Montenegro, and creates a binary image of the world - about the rotting and insidious West that wants to destroy Russia and Orthodoxy and thereby "Traditional Orthodox Montenegro", through Ukraine. The action is largely planned and based on local historical themes, themes of identity and values, which further destabilizes and burdens the already complicated situation in multinational and multicultural Montenegro and promotes the Russian strategy of "Balkan chaos". In the presentation are analyzed speeches, columns, radio-television shows and literary-documentary material in which the tendency to create a desirable image of the (Russian) East as more moral, spiritual and freer than the West is evident.