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Montenegro's foreign ministry summoned the Russian ambassador in Podgorica on Monday to protest over the brief detention of one of its parliamentary deputies at Moscow airport overnight.
Montenegro's foreign ministry summoned the Russian ambassador in Podgorica on Monday to protest over the brief detention of one of its parliamentary deputies at Moscow airport overnight.
The move could further sour relations between Podgorica and the Kremlin, which strongly opposed Montenegro becoming a member of NATO. It will join the military alliance next month.
Miodrag Vukovic, a prominent deputy from the ruling Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) was held overnight at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, the ministry said in a statement. Vukovic, who had been travelling to Minsk via Moscow, returned to Montenegro on Monday morning.
"(The protest note) singled out inappropriate behaviour by Russian officials ... during the unwarranted detention of Mr Vukovic," the statement said.
The note also said Russian authorities took Vukovic's passport and he was not initially allowed to contact the Montenegrin embassy. Russian authorities also failed to allow a Montenegrin diplomat to make immediate contact with him at the airport.
Officials from Russia's embassy in Podgorica were not immediately available for comment.
Ties between Montenegro, a candidate to join the European Union, and Russia, previously its key Slavic and Orthodox Christian ally and a leading investor, worsened after the tiny Adriatic republic sought to join NATO.
Last year Montenegrin authorities said Russian spy agencies and local pro-Russian parties concocted a plot during October elections to halt Montenegro's NATO bid, assassinate the-then Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic and bring an opposition figure to power. The Kremlin dismissed that as absurd.
In 2014, Montenegro imposed sanctions against Russia, embracing EU policies over its annexation of Crimea in Ukraine. Moscow retaliated by adding Montenegro to the list of countries from which it was banning food imports.
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