Once the butt of Viennese humour in the days of the Austro-Hungarian empire (Léhar's Merry Widow changed the German grand duchy of the play on which the operetta was based to a thinly-disguised "Pontevedro"), Montenegro escaped the break-up of Tito's Yugoslavia. However, on the brink of joining the EU, she is reported to be at the mercy of a would-be elected dictator on the lines of Belaruss' Lukashenko.
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