Since the Berlin Congress of 1878, however, it has an uninterrupted continuity as a state, now embodied in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a common state of the citizens of Serbia and Montenegro. Under its Constitution, Montenegro is broken up into 21 municipalities. Its territory, however, is defined as unified and inalienable. Montenegrins speak the ijekavski dialect of the Serbian language and use both scripts, Cyrillic and Roman, equally. In areas where ethnic groups constitute a majority their own languages and scripts are also in official use.
All religions are equal before the law, freely professed and separate from the state.
Power in the republic is divided between the executive, legislative and judicial. The legislative authority is the Assembly and the Government is the executive branch. The President of the Republic represents the country at home and abroad. The capital is Podgorica, while the old capital and seat of rulers was Cetinje, which symbolically links the past and present of this republic. The Declaration proclaiming Montenegro as an ecological state is a step into the future, into a post-industrial society, in which man and his environment will be the focus of every activity.