This deserves much more attention. #Russia’s attempted 2016 coup in #Montenegro was far more serious & sophisticated than previously understood. @CrisLeeMaza summarizes here the key findings of new report by @ReufBajrovic, @VeskoGarcevic & Richard Kraemer. newsweek.com/exclusive-russ…
Reason why this is such a major story is bc @ReufBajrovic & @suljagicemir1, in this report from March, warn of *upcoming* Russian inference in the Bosnian elxns. BiH is far more vulnerable & volatile than Montenegro was in 2016. Are EU, US, NATO prepared? fpri.org/article/2018/0…
Some of us have been warning about Russia’s very serious meddling in Bosnia for yrs now. I warned explicitly *last Sept* that we were headed for Kremlin-backed trouble in Oct of this yr. Too little has been done by the international community to prepare. foreignaffairs.com/articles/bosni…
And I remind you we know exactly why Russia is engaging so aggressively in the #Balkans. It is explicitly to block NATO enlargement. This report from @OCCRP after the Macedonia revolution contains key Russian & Serbian intel leaks. Note this part esp: occrp.org/en/spooksandsp… 
As the region’s strategic center, #Bosnia is key to #Russia’s ambitions in this regard. Given what they’ve been prepared to do in Montenegro & Macedonia, I’m deeply alarmed at the extremes they, and their proxies, will go to in #BiH, as I wrote here. balkaninsight.com/en/article/the…
I know some of you have heard me go on and on about this but that’s bc I’m genuinely trying to raise the alarm about #Russia’s intentions in BiH. There’s still time to act but not much. BiH is far more volatile & yet central to whole region’s stability. The thinnest ice now. /x
