Bosnian-Serbian leader Dodik travels to Russia despite international arrest warrant

Milorad Dodik, the president of Republika SRPSKA, a state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, traveled to Russia, while an international arrest warrant was issued against him last week. In one movie That Dodik posted on his social media on his social media on Monday evening can be seen how he stands for a war memorial at the Kremlin in Moscow. Dodik maintains Neat ties with the Russian leader Putinwhich he regularly visits.

In February, Dodik became the highest judge in Bosnia condemned Up to a year in prison and six years of exclusion from politics, for opposing the Dayton agreement. That peace agreement arranged that Bosnia was divided after the bloody civil war (1992-1995) into a federation where mainly Bosniaken (Muslims) and Bosnian Croats (Catholics) live, and the Republika SRPSKA, where mainly Bosnian Serbs (Orthodox) live. The Republic is led by Dodik, who regularly fuels Serbian Nationalism in the northern area and, moreover, threatens with separation.

In 2023, Dodik introduced a law that scraps all decisions of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Republika SRPSKA he led by him. He also refuses to recognize Christian Smidt, the high representative who supervises compliance with the peace agreement. Dodik is’ intensively busy with it Ondermining the state« , Said Smidt last year in an interview with NRC.

In addition to Russia, Dodik has also traveled to neighboring Serbia in recent days since his arrest warrant. In addition, he visited a controversial Anti-Semitism conference in Israel who attracts many international radical-right politicians.

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