Montenegro Web Links

Below are links by topical categories to resources primarily in English providing information on Montenegro, one of two republics comprising the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. For related web links, see Regional Resources: Europe [1]. For more USIP resources see Montenegro [2].

• General Resources [3]
• Government Agencies and International Organizations [4]
• Human Rights and Refugees [5]
• Maps and Guides [6]
• Media and News Sources [7]

These links complement these Special Reports:

1. Montenegro--and more--at risk [8]
2. Serbia and Montenegro: Reintegration, Divorce, or Something Else? [9]
3. Taking Stock and Looking Forward: Intervention in the Balkans and Beyond [10]

These web links also support USIP's Balkans Initiative [11].
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General Resources

The sites below collect links to other Internet resources which describe the background, history   politics of Montenegro.

• INCORE guide to Internet sources on conflict and ethnicity in Serbia and Montenegro [13]
  A selective collection of annotated links to sources for news, articles and documents, NGOs, maps, etc. from the Initiative on Conflict Resolution & Ethnicity.
• International Cultural Center (ICC) Library--Eastern Europe Links: Montenegro [14]
  From Texas Tech University, annotated links to government, internet search tools (with automatic searches from three search engines), and other useful general resources.
• Montenegrin Association of America [15]
  Links to information on Montenegro covering geography, history, religion, politics and other topics.
• REESWeb: East European Studies Virtual Library (Univ. of Pittsburgh) [16]
  REESWeb has a comprehensive database of annotated electronic resources for Russia and Eastern Europe which can be browsed [17] by subject, culture, region (including Macedonia) or time period. A keyword search [18] is also available.
• Slavophilia: Slavic and East European Resources [19]
  Web site contains an extensive collection of links, many of them annotated, accessed through a subject index, country index and search engine. Yugoslavia [20] links are organized by subject category, with the language of each external web site (Bosnian, English, etc.) identified.
• Sources on the Balkan Peninsula: Yugoslavia [21]
  A collection of links compiled by the Hellenic Resources Institute and posted on their network, covering news sources, agencies, organizations, political parties, and lists of links from commercial search engines such as Yahoo! and Alta Vista.
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Government Agencies and International Organizations

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

• Constitution of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia [22]
  Text of the Constitution from the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• Constitution of the Republic of Montenegro [23]
  Text of the Constitution from the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• Facts about Montenegro [24]
  Information on the assembly, president and government of the Republic of Montenegro from the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Official Web Site [25]
  News, information and press statements from the Secretariat of Information, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

International Crisis Group (ICG)

• CrisisWeb: the International Crisis Group on-line system [26]
  The ICG web site has a brief overview of its Balkans Program [27], organized by country or region: Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro [28] which in turn, links to reports and breaking news for that region.

Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)

• Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) [29]
  Web site of the OSCE includes news, a newsletter, journals, press releases, and a documents archive. Its ">Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights [30] links to information on elections and legislation, particularly the Stability Pact Legislationonline [31], which provides information organized by topic and country for legislators, e.g. elections in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia [32]. Also includes election reports and analyses [33] by country with reports for Federal Republic of Yugoslavia [34], such as Comments on the Draft "Referendum Law on the State Status of the Republic of Montenegro." (November 2001) [35]

United Nations

• ReliefWeb: Balkans The Latest [36]
  ReliefWeb [37], a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), has a database of the latest news and reports on the humanitarian crisis in Macedonia and the Balkans. The database can be searched by month going back to December 1997, by source (organization name), by format or type of report, or by the latest news first. Keyword search capability is available, as are links to related reports. Yugoslavia: The Latest [38] country information has additional material and links. Within country listing, related links include background information and topics such as refugees and IDPs [39] with a link to IDPs in Macedonia [40] from the Global IDP Project [41] on internally displaced persons. ReliefWeb also includes a map center [42], site map and search capability.
• ReliefWeb: Balkans: The Latest [36]
  ReliefWeb [37], a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), has the latest news and "humanitarian response information on current emergencies and countries of concern" in its section on complex emergencies [43]. Also includes documents and related links organized by by country [44], a map center [42], and site map and search capability.
• United Nations Home Page (UN) [45]
  Home page of the United Nations, with links to databases, documents, publications, conferences, events, organs of the United Nations, including the Security Council [46], and other resources.
• UNHCR: Country of Origin and Legal Information [47]
  The web site for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has databases for country of origin and legal information documents and reports. Pull-down menus allow selection by country and/or subject and a specific search engine feature is also provided. Each country compilation includes links to country reports, legal documents, news and maps.

United States

• U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) [48]
  A search for "montenegro" on the web site for USAID yields a January 31, 2000 press release on a grant [49] to Montenegro and reports [50] and other documents from the Office of Transition Initiatives.
• U.S. Department of State, International Information Programs: Washington File Archives [51]
  A keyword search on "montenegro" yields documents from the Public Diplomacy Query (PDQ) database, including State Department press briefings and travel warnings, White House statements and a wide-range of U.S. agency-produced documents.
• U.S. Department of State: Serbia and Montenegro [52]
  U.S. Department of State's archived web site to official statements and press briefings on Serbia and Montenegro, including specific statements on Secretary Albright meeting Prime Minister Vujanovic [53] from February 3, 2000 and stability in Montenegro [54] from March 30, 1999.
• U.S. European Command: Serbia and Montenegro [55]
  United States European Command links to country information, maps, and related web sites.
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Human Rights and Refugees

• Annual Report 2001: Montenegro [56]
  From the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, this section of a 2001 comprehensive report (on events in 2000) focuses on Montenegro, and includes sections on legislation, elections, independence of the judiciary, religious intolerance and misconduct by the military.
• IDPs in Yugoslavia (Federal Republic of) [57]
  From the Global IDP Project [41] database, several categories of data regarding patterns of displacement, return and resettlement, property issues, humanitarian access, for example.
• Montenegrin Helsinki Committee for Human Rights [58]
  From the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, this web page provides background information, contacts and a description of current projects.
• Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: 2001 (Section on Montenegro) [59]
  The U.S. State Department's extensive report on human rights in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, March 4, 2002. Reports for 2000 [60] and previous years 1993-1999 [61] are available online.
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Maps and Guides

• CIA Factbook: Serbia and Montenegro [62]
  Basic facts on Serbia and Montenegro prepared by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
• Political Map of Serbia [63]
  Maps detailing political, ethnic, economic, etc. terrain in Serbia, prepared by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Part of the larger Balkans Regional Atlas [64], which also covers Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
• Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) Maps [65]
  Maps from the Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection of the University of Texas at Austin. These maps were produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Mapping Agency.
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Media and News Sources

• B92 [66]
  Internet, Radio and TV B92 with breaking news from Yugoslavia in English, Serbian, Hungarian and Albanian. Includes links to B92 projects in music and publishing as well as media links to the Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM). Requires Real Player [67] for some files.
• Balkan Media & Policy Monitor [68]
  The Balkan Media & Policy Monitor is a digest, culling artcles from other publications, with links to full text in cited publications.
• Eurasia Research Center Balkan News Page: Montenegro [69]
  Links to selected news sources and search engines which perform an automated search for news stories on Montenegro.
• Radio Antena M [70]
  Radio Antena M, independent radio network and described as "the free voice of Montenegro." Requires Real Player [67].
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty [71]
  The RFE/RL Newsline for Southeastern Europe [72], a daily report of developments in the region, contains news covering Montenegro, as does the semiweekly Balkan Report [73] and the weekly South Slavic Report [74]. Subscription through e-mail is also available. Also of special interest is the series of reports on Yugoslavia's Democratic Revolution [75].

Updated: March 6 2002