Q&A: Duško Marković, the Prime Minister Stuck Between Putin and Trump in the Balkans

As the U.S. presidential elections were approaching last year, voters in the tiny Balkan nation of Montenegro liked to say that they deserved to cast a ballot at least as much as any American. They were only half joking. Like many people in Eastern Europe wedged between the dueling interests of Russia and the West, the outcome of the U.S. race held nearly as much significance for them as the results of their own elections.

In Montenegro the stakes were especially high.