Source: Reuters
“A Bosnia court on Wednesday sentenced Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik to one year in jail and ordered him to step down as president of the country’s Serb-dominated region for six years for defying orders of an international peace envoy. Dodik, head of Bosnia’s autonomous Serb Republic, was for [sic] signing laws that suspended rulings by the constitutional court and by international peace envoy Christian Schmidt, whose role was created in 1995 to stop the Balkan country slipping back into war. Dodik, who has close ties with Russia, has rejected the indictment and retaliated with measures to reduce the state’s presence in his Serb-dominated region of Bosnia by banning the state prosecutor, the state court, and the intelligence agency.” (02/26/25)