Srdjan Jankovic is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
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.
Macedonia is close to an agreement with a European institution to help with its $1 billion loan from the Export-Import Bank of China.
Russia is seeking to extend its no-NATO zone beyond the former Soviet Union and its former Warsaw Pact satellites. The next target: tiny Montenegro.
