Experts deemed the verdict a victory for rule of law and a critical step toward countering Russian influence.
After several years of investigations, a higher court in NATO ally Montenegro sentenced 14 people, including two Russians, on Thursday of participating in an attempted coup allegedly backed by Russia. Experts deemed the verdict a victory for rule of law in the small Balkan country.
“The Montenegrin investigation, and final judgment, shows how far Russia is willing to go to prevent NATO enlargement and destabilize both current and prospective members of the alliance,” Mark Simakovsky, an expert on Russia and NATO at the D.C.-based Atlantic Council, told Newsweek. British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on Thursday called the coup "another example of Russia’s outrageous attempts to undermine European democracy."
Previous investigations suggested that the effort had involved around 50 members of Russian intelligence, in addition to members of Montenegro’s political opposition and their supporters in Serbia, which borders Monetenegro to the east.
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