Today in MTL-City, the development of the business accelerator under the Monteliberro investment fund was discussed. The head has changed there; the new one is currently taking over, trying to understand what he has gotten himself into, and estimating what to do about it.
Based on the results of the discussion, it seems to have become clear that the focus should not be on attracting new businesses, but on auditing those already invested in, either to ensure everything is fine there or to guess how to steer things out of trouble.
But that is just a side note. I simply want to share a thought that I voiced at this meeting.
When the Monteliberro project was just starting, a study was conducted on why Montenegro was the best place for its launch. It pointed to many favorable factors. The country is small, multinational, has sea access, and has democracy—it has everything so that Russians could come and carry out political transformations toward freedom and, to start with, achieve a powerful economic rise. In fact, it turned out that a small country means a tiny consumer market. That the absence of unconditional dominance by the Montenegrin national majority means the impossibility of obtaining citizenship. That sea access helps nothing in terms of the economy, because the country is effectively walled off by high tariffs on almost everything. And that no one will let Russians carry out any political transformations here; the citizens fight among themselves and change governments every two years, and to step into the line of fire under such conditions is an extremely foolish decision.
Therefore, essentially, the only reason for Rus to go to Montenegro now is that Montelibero is here. Yes, the location might not have been the most ideal choice, but we have already invested here, have already achieved significant success, and now other places are definitely worse. It turned out just like with Israel: the location there isn’t great, and the neighbors are aggressive, but once the Jews had already arrived and built so much, it truly made sense for those for whom it was all being built to go specifically there.
As for the motto of the updated Montelibero business accelerator, it has become “economy without politics.” A sort of return to libertarian classics.
