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  "path": "/articles/commentary/independence-before-identity-montenegro-at-twenty/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-21T14:29:46.000Z",
  "site": "https://europeanconservative.com",
  "tags": [
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  "textContent": "Montenegro outlasted the Ottoman Empire, the forcible erasure of its statehood in 1918, and decades of communist Yugoslavia, but will it be able to outlast the European Union?",
  "title": "Independence Before Identity—Montenegro at Twenty"
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