US Treasury Department

Slobodan Tesic, described as "the biggest dealers of arms and munitions in the Balkans", is among 39 individuals and entities on whom the US imposed sanctions on Thursday.

The government of the mainly Serb entity in Bosnia, Republika Srpska, RS, has set aside additional cash for lobbyists in the US to get RS President Milorad Dodik removed from the US blacklist, documents and information which BIRN received from Bosnian Serb officials reveal.

Most local analysts and international officials say the move is unlikely to achieve much, however.

Vukota Govedarica, head of the main opposition party in the Bosnian Serb-led entity, the Serbian Democratic Party, SDS, said his party was demanding an investigation into how much money Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik has spent on US lobbying firms and what their effect was.

Toyota Oct. 8 said it was willing to help the United States probe how the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has managed to get hold of so many of its notoriously tough trucks.

The USA extended the list of sanctioned Russian and Ukrainian individuals and institutions in an attempt to maintain pressure on Russia for Moscow's alleged support of separatists in Ukraine.

The administration of US President Barack Obama added on Thursday the names of 26 people and entities that will be subjected to economic sanctions, the New York Times informs.