Republika Srpska

Despite harsh criticism from rights groups, international organisations and the media, the assembly of Republika Srpska, one of two entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, on Thursday adopted draft amendments to the criminal code, making defamation a crime. 

With 48 votes in favour and 21 against, the law will go to a 60-day public consultation period before its final adoption. 

The EU and US have criticised plans by Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, president of Bosnia's mainly Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity, to push a new Russian-style law which would allow the entity to mark civil society and non-governmental organisations as "foreign agents".

The freedom of movement agreement between the six Western Balkans countries, signed on November 3, 2022, as part of the Berlin Process has hit a wall in Bosnia thanks to the Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik. 

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Wednesday awarded Statehood Day honours at a ceremony also attended by PM Ana Brnabic, Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik and Patriarch Porfirije of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

Legendary former Serbian footballer and coach Sinisa Mihajlovic and composer Kornelije Kovac were posthumously awarded the Order of Karadjordje's Star.

The formation of a government in the Bosniak and Croat-dominated Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the bigger of Bosnia's two entities, remains on hold since the October 2022 election, as the governing coalition that promised its quick formation falls apart. 

The president of that committee, Alicia Kearns, said that the British government would not support the formation of a "Serbian enclave" in Kosovo.
During the session, as can be seen in the video she posted on Twitter, Kearns said "that she is worried about the Franco-German proposal to create an enclave in the form of Republika Srpska on Kosovo and Metohija".

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik on Tuesday to inform him of all Western initiatives regarding Kosovo-Metohija and the overall situation in Serbia's southern province.

Bosnia and Herzegovina held its ninth general elections on 2 October 2022.

Bosnia and Herzegovina completed the formation of a state-level government on Wednesday, several months after the October 2022 general elections, with the approval of the new Council of Ministers led by Borjana Kristo, vice-president of the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, the main Bosnian Croat party. 

EAST SARAJEVO - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic met with Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik in East Sarajevo on Monday.

They spoke at the Republika Srpska office in East Sarajevo ahead of a Republika Srpska Day parade.

According to a statement released by Dodik's office, they discussed joint projects by Serbia and Republika Srpska.