Aneta Durovic is a correspondent in Podgorica for RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
A foreigner who made unwelcome advances, chased, and allegedly assaulted a young woman in Montenegro got fined 300 euros. She got fined, too, for fighting back too hard.
President Milo Djukanovic has steered Montenegro from the Milosevic era through independence and NATO membership. Now he's seeking a final term, with his tiny Balkan nation mired in political and institutional crisis.
Against a combustible backdrop of the kind of religious and ethno-nationalist tensions that are taking down its current government, Montenegrins shared markedly differing takeaways from a shocking mass shooting this month.
Montenegrin Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapic's ruling coalition came to power nearly six months ago, but it still hasn't gotten past two of the most polarizing issues in society.
