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Montenegro’s Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic has resigned, hours after suggesting that Russia was involved in an alleged coup attempt on the country’s election day and accusing the opposition of collaborating with the Kremlin.

Milo Djukanovic said on October 25 that there was “a strong connection of a foreign factor” in the October 16 vote, which was marked by the arrest of 20 people suspected of planning armed attacks against Djukanovic and his supporters after parliamentary election results were announced.

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