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Regional Resources
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.
These links complement three Institute Special Reports:
(1) Montenegro--and more--at risk
(2) Serbia and Montenegro: Reintegration, Divorce, or Something Else?
(3) Taking Stock and Looking Forward: Intervention in the Balkans and Beyond.
These web links also support the activities of the Institute's Balkans Initiative, particularly regarding Montenegro.
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
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
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
Links to information on Montenegro covering geography, history,
religion, politics and other topics.
- REESWeb: East European
Studies Virtual Library (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
REESWeb has a comprehensive database of annotated electronic resources
for Russia and Eastern Europe which can be browsed
by subject, culture, region (including Macedonia) or time period.
A keyword
search is also available.
- Slavophilia: Slavic and
East European Resources
Web site contains an extensive collection of links, many of them
annotated, accessed through a subject index, country index and search
engine. Yugoslavia
links are organized by subject category, with the language of each
external web site (Bosnian, English, etc.) identified.
- Sources
on the Balkan Peninsula: Yugoslavia
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.
Government Agencies and International Organizations
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- Constitution
of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Text of the Constitution from the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- Constitution
of the Republic of Montenegro
Text of the Constitution from the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- Facts
about Montenegro
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
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
The ICG web site has a brief overview of its Balkans Program, organized by country or region: Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro which in turn, links to reports and breaking news for that region.
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
United Nations
- ReliefWeb:
Balkans The Latest
ReliefWeb, 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 country information has additional material and links.
Within country listing, related links include background information
and topics such as refugees
and IDPs with a link to IDPs
in Macedonia from the Global
IDP Project on internally displaced persons. ReliefWeb also
includes a map
center, site map and search capability.
- ReliefWeb:
Balkans: The Latest
ReliefWeb, 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. Also includes documents and related links organized
by by
country, a map
center, and site map and search capability.
- United Nations Home Page (UN)
Home page of the United Nations, with links to databases, documents,
publications, conferences, events, organs of the United Nations,
including the Security
Council, and other resources.
- UNHCR: Country
of Origin and Legal Information
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)
A search for "montenegro" on the web site for USAID yields a January
31, 2000 press release on a grant
to Montenegro and reports
and other documents from the Office of Transition Initiatives.
- U.S.
Department of State, International Information Programs: Washington
File Archives
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
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 from February 3, 2000
and stability
in Montenegro from March 30, 1999.
- U.S. European
Command: Serbia and Montenegro
United States European Command links to country information, maps,
and related web sites.
Human Rights and Refugees
- Annual
Report 2001: Montenegro
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)
From the Global IDP Project
database, several categories of data regarding patterns of displacement,
return and resettlement, property issues, humanitarian access, for
example.
- Montenegrin Helsinki
Committee for Human Rights
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)
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
and previous
years 1993-1999 are available online.
Maps and Guides
- CIA
Factbook: Serbia and Montenegro
Basic facts on Serbia and Montenegro prepared by the U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency.
- Political
Map of Serbia
Maps detailing political, ethnic, economic, etc. terrain in Serbia,
prepared by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Part of the larger
Balkans
Regional Atlas, which also covers Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia
and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
- Yugoslavia
(Serbia and Montenegro) Maps
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.
Media and News Sources
- B92
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 for some files.
- Balkan Media &
Policy Monitor
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
Links to selected news sources and search engines which perform
an automated search for news stories on Montenegro.
- Radio Antena M
Radio Antena M, independent radio network and described as "the
free voice of Montenegro." Requires Real
Player.
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
The RFE/RL Newsline
for Southeastern Europe, a daily report of developments in the
region, contains news covering Montenegro, as does the semiweekly
Balkan Report
and the weekly South
Slavic Report. Subscription through e-mail is also available.
Also of special interest is the series of reports on Yugoslavia's
Democratic Revolution.
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Updated: March 6 2002
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