HOW TO ACHIEVE INDEPENDENCE ?
By Slobodan Rackovic It is certain that this year, Montenegro will achieve its 80-year dream of becoming an internationally recognized state. The only question is what will happen first: a referendum on independence or early parliamentary elections. This uncertainty is not popular among the people of Montenegro because it gives the impression that the leaders just do not know what to do next, which looks like weakness in the face of historical events. Since everything became clear only yesterday, it adds to the confusion of Montenegrins. The idea of elections was rejected as a means by which the country’s pro-Serbian forces would postpone a referendum and diminish the nationalist sentiments of the majority of Montenegrins. Anti-independence forces openly use tactics of buying time in hopes that the new and allegedly democratic regime in Belgrade, to which the world is giving so much support, will strengthen enough that the issue of separation of Montenegro from the Federal Republic of
