"Certainly, there were such statements last week, they were quoted by the media, but we react to them just as you do — you said yourself that these were quite strange statements," Peskov told reporters, responding to a question regarding recent claims by Prime Minister of Montenegro Milo Dukanovic.
Dukanovic said in an interview last week that Russia played an active role in organizing anti-government protests in his country.
"Looking for some kind of devil everywhere and continuing to demonize Russia is a known pastime in many countries, but we still hope that common sense and sober assessments will prevail," Peskov said.
A string of anti-government protests, organized by the Democratic Front opposition coalition, shook the small Balkan country over the past weeks. The latest gathering on Saturday saw police use tear gas on demonstrators, who called for Djukanovic’s resignation and demanded that Montenegro stay out of the US-led NATO military bloc.
The brutal dispersal of protesters prompted the Russian Foreign Ministry to lambast the Montenegrin government’s anti-free speech actions as regrettable. It also condemned the country’s fast-track course toward NATO accession.
