Klimenko Z.V. The role of the Albanian community in the restoration and development of the statehood of Montenegro at the beginning of the 21st century. In: Slavs and Russia: problems of statehood in the Balkans (late XVIII-XXI centuries). Coll. monograph ... Klimenko Z.V. The role of the Albanian community in the restoration and development of the statehood of Montenegro at the beginning of the 21st century. In: Slavs and Russia: problems of statehood in the Balkans (late XVIII-XXI centuries). Coll. monograph / Ed. by S. I. Danchenko, Moscow: Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2020. P. 473-492.ISBN 978-5-7576-0445-9 DOI 10.31168/2618-8570.2020.25Posted on site: 10.01.21Текст статьи/монографии на сайте издателя URL: https://inslav.ru/sites/default/files/editions/2020_slavyane_i_rossiya.pdf (дата обращения 10.01.2021)AbstractThe article analyzes the role of the Albanian community in Montenegro. Notwithstanding a small (and even gradually deteriorizing) size of the Albanian community in that Balkan country, that community enjoys a large and maybe even the major influence on the contemporary history of Montenegro. Its role became especially remarkable in the period when Montenegro obtained its full state sovereignty in 2006, as well as in the next several years. The author explores positions of prominent Albanians politicians, mutual relations of the largest national political parties. A serious attention is paid to the problem of the influence of neighbouring Albania and Kosovo on the development of inter-ethnic relations in that country. Montenegro, under the influence of Albanian politicians, became a member of NATO in 2017.