Bosnian Serb President Dodik sentenced to prison for defying peace envoy

Aljazeera

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Supporters of separatist Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik rallied on Tuesday as tensions soared on the eve of a scheduled court verdict that could order the pro-Russia Serb leader banned from politics or even sentenced to prison.
Newsmax
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A top state-level court in Sarajevo on Wednesday sentenced Milorad Dodik, president of a Serb-majority federal entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to one year in prison and barred him from politics for six years for pushing through legislation in defiance of the country’s Constitutional Court and circumventing established legal procedures.
Politico Europe
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Bosnia, the former Yugoslavia's most ethnically-mixed republic, is today divided into two regions - the Serb-dominated Republika Srpska and a federation of Croats and Bosnian Muslims or Bosniaks - linked by a weak central government.
The Gazette
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The verdict came after a year-long trial of Dodik on charges that he failed to obey the top international envoy overseeing the peace process in the Balkan country.
Deutsche Welle

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