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B. President Trump last week signed U.S. ratification for the republic's accession to NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). All 28 NATO members must ratify Montenegro's accession for the country to join the military alliance. Washington was among the last to do so.
A. Albania was not among the nations created by the breakup of Yugoslavia which sparked a decade of bloody, ethnically-based wars that lasted until 2001. States created from Yugoslavia are: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia and Serbia. All but Serbia have joined or want to join NATO.
D. The Russians maintain a large naval fleet in the Black Sea which connects to the Mediterranean Sea through the Bosphorus and Dardanells straits. The Adriatic Sea is the northernmost arm of the Mediterranean and separates the Italian and Balkan peninsulas.
D. The Balkan region is a meeting point of Orthodox Christianity, Islam and Roman Catholic Christianity. Eastern Orthodoxy is the majority religion. Zen Buddhism is common in East Asia.