Dr. Philip Kovachevish is on with us and he is an author, a global justice advocate

and a university professor at the University of San Francisco where he teaches international politics and U.S. foreign policy.

He is also chairman for the NGO movement for the neutrality of Montenegro.

And he's also involved in the politics there and he writes for Sibyl Edmund's Boiling Frogs Post.

Welcome.

Thank you for inviting me yet again.

I'm glad to be on your show.

It's great to have you. So you're from Montenegro and just

this past week we've been seeing these protests in Montenegro, you know, and just for a little

bit of context, we've seen in Moldova over the fast few weeks, so I don't recall if it was a

month or two ago, a hundred thousand people turn out to protest the Moldovan government and demand the resignation of the corrupt government there.

And now we're seeing in Montenegro, a thousand people at least demand the resignation of the Prime Minister Milo Jukanovich.

They claim he has robbed the people, destroyed jobs,

and the country. And well, Jukanovich blames Moscow for the anti-government protest, which is

interesting to which Moscow has responded, that he has had no evidence. And the context there is

Dukonovych is pushing his pro-NATO and seeking to join the NATO block.

So what can you tell us what's happening in Montenegro?

Yeah, I mean, the situation in Montenegro is very complex.

You know, we have to look at everything in a context.

First of all, we have to look at the Montenegrin situation itself.

What's happening in Montenegro is that Montenegro has had the same political party in power

since 1990.

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