Djukanovic: Russia continues to interfere with Montenegro's internal affairs

The cabinet announced that Alfeyev, head of the Department of Relations with the Moscow Catholic Foreign Church, in an interview with TV Russia 24, who recently took over “behind secular goals incompatible with the mission of the Church of Christ”, intervened in Montenegro's internal affairs, reports RTCG.

The “just days after Lavrov's statement, he replaced approximately the theses in the same way and cynically commented on the recent events of Montenegro's violent mitropole-primority SOC's statement in Cetinje, which further confirmed Lavrov's open recognition that the Russian Church serves Russia's state interests abroad and in relation to our country, they are both anti-Morthodox <1>, the report says.

As it was announced, Ilarion is trying to present himself as defender of the interests of the Serbian Orthodox Church branch in Montenegro, and remembers that he visited Podgorica in July 2011, when he had closed meetings with senior Montenegrin officials, in which he spoke quite differently about the possible model of organising the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro.

Then, behind Patricana's back in Belgrade, he defended the autonomy of Mitrovica Montenegro and Liturgy, which the Amfilohije Radovici reached to some extent, and Serbia's Patrickana simply removed it with no respect for her archbishop last spring, according to the president's office.

Warned that the head of the Russian Church ignores the historic fact that in the past there was a liturgical and canonical sister church for Montenegro's autocemous Mitrovici, it adds that, the current Russian government and head of the Russian Church try to destabilise Montenegro on the road to European integration.