For years, Dodik has pursued a relentless separatist agenda that has put him on collision course with Bosnia's institutions. The Republika Srpska president has repeatedly threatened to pull the Serb ...

In 2021, Dodik tried to withdraw the Serb region from the joint army, judiciary and tax administration but delayed the action due to the war in Ukraine. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and ...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnian Serb lawmakers on Thursday passed a set of laws barring central Bosnian judiciary and police from their entity in Bosnia, sending tensions soaring in ...

Further convictions came in October 2022, when the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina sentenced seven former soldiers from the Bosnian Serb Army’s Second Podrinje Brigade—Obrad and Novak Poluga, Petko ...

Sarajevo (AFP) – Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik was found guilty ... to strengthen the central state -- including targeting the army, customs, taxes and law enforcement in RS.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik watches ruling by the court after a court sentenced him to one year in ...

BELGRADE — A foul-mouthed Bosnian Serb leader who has been a central figure in nearly two decades of instability and controversy could soon be barred from political office — and even face jail time, ...

A Bosnian court on Wednesday sentenced Milorad Dodik, the pro-Russia Bosnian Serb leader, to one year in prison and barred him from engaging ... The two regions were given wide autonomy, but kept some ...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A court in Bosnia on Wednesday sentenced the pro-Russia Bosnian Serb president, Milorad Dodik, to one year in prison and banned him from politics for six ...

Photo: BIRN The Bosnian state court on Wednesday in a first-instance verdict sentenced Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik to one year in prison – plus a six-year ban on being president of ...