Bosnia Serb Leader Rubbishes Secession Plan

Milorad Dodik, President of Republika Srpska, has denied claims that he planned to declare the independence from Bosnia of the mainly Serbian entity with Russian support - just after Russia annexed the Crimea from Ukraine.

"The Republika Srpska surely has that concept and will, according to the estimates we have, go in that direction," he said. "But our prime goal [now] is to strengthen autonomy of [Republika] Srpska," he added.

The claim emerged in an analysis written by Bodo Weber and Kurt Bassuener of the Democratization Policy Council.

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