Predrag Tomovic is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
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.
As a new government settles into office in Podgorica, questions are once again being raised about the troubled Chinese project that has only resulted in a 41-kilometer section of road in eight years.
Local defenders say the Chinese builder of a controversial $1 billion stretch of highway in Montenegro is proposing to fix just a fraction of the damage it's done to a UNESCO-protected river canyon.
The 19-year-old victim of a hate attack on his own doorstep is thought to be the first transgender person baptized by the vocally anti-LGBT Serbian Orthodox Church after a hushed private ceremony earlier this week.
Montenegro seeks to legislate patriotism with law on standing for anthem.
