Editor’s Note: Drones shut one Yandex data center and knocked part of a second out of service within two days this week. Yandex Cloud says a fire caused by the drone attack on its Sasovo site took down one of
The government of Montenegro says it has set the ball rolling on the creation of a state-owned entity that will eventually manage its local ccTLD, .me. The ccTLD, which enjoys over a million of registrations largely due to its friendliness
In what looks like bad news for GoDaddy and Identity Digital, Montenegro appears to be the latest government to demand a bigger share of revenues from its national ccTLD. While already formally delegated to the government, .me is currently managed
The Bay of Kotor
The D&O Diary’s European assignment continued last week with a long weekend visit to Montenegro. Montenegro is a small country with rugged mountains and an interesting history, tucked along the Adriatic coast on the Balkan
Membership
On 4 March 2026, Guatemala deposited its instrument of acceptance of the Statute, becoming the 93rd Member of the HCCH. More information is <a available here.
Conventions & Instruments
On 1 March 2026, the 2019 Judgments Convention
Die Wahl eines neuen Richters des montenegrinischen Verfassungsgerichts am 25. November 2025 hat einmal mehr ein strukturelles Problem offengelegt: Die Richter:innen entscheiden faktisch über das Ende ihrer eigenen Amtszeit – und können dadurch die verfassungsgemäße Erneuerung des Gerichts blockieren. Damit
1. Call for Submissions: BlueRights International Conference on the Protection of Health at Sea. The BlueRights International Conference on the Protection of Health at Sea (25– 27 March 2026, Budva, Montenegro) is inviting the submission of abstracts for presentations to
Twelve institutions have formed a center of excellence to focus on food safety risk assessment and authenticity.
The consortium is led by the University of Donja Gorica in Montenegro and includes the University of Padova, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and
Reuters reports that early today the Parliament of Montenegro passed a controversial law on religious communities:
Under the law, religious communities in the tiny Adriatic state would need to prove property ownership from before 1918, when predominantly Orthodox Christian Montenegro
It all began as an everyday tale of Montenegrin academics and some animals, and ended up in a European Court of Human Rights decision with potentially significant consequences for employers across the EU and the UK.
