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Bosnia elections indicate time right for civic ideas, says pundit

Ljubljana – Faris Kočan, a researcher at the Centre of International Relations at the Ljubljana Faculty of Social Sciences, believes the results of the general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina available so far indicate time may have come for civic ideas as opposed to nationalism.

Sanctioned Politicians Join Race for Posts in Bosnia Elections

Milorad Dodik, the Bosnian Serb leader and Serbian member of the tripartite state presidency, will not be running for a second mandate in October, he has clarified.

Instead, Dodik, who has been sanctioned twice by the US and once by the UK, will be running for the post of president of Bosnia's Serb-majority entity, Republika Srpska.

Macedonia could join NATO as early as January 2019?

"Accession negotiations have already started and I expect that we can complete them by January of next year," Stoltenberg told reporters ahead of Wednesday's meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels.

"For Macedonia, there is no path to NATO other than accepting the agreement on changing the country's name," Stoltenberg added, Belgrade-based daily Blic reported on Tuesday.

Izetbegovic Wife's Top Job Causes Stir in Bosnia

Friday's appointment of Sebija Izetbegovic, wife of the Bosniak member of the Bosnian Presidency, as director of the University Clinical Center of Sarajevo, UKCS, an important medical institute, has caused controversy in Bosnia.

Sebija, who has been director of the Abdulah Nakash hospital in Sarajevo since 2013, was elected at a session of the board of the UKCS on January 6.