Slobodan Vaskovic

"Solidarity happens much more among equals," Sarajevo-based psychologist Jasna Bajraktarevic said on a regional talk show on N1 TVon March 18. She stressed that the countries in the region should rely much more on each other than on major global actors.

A journalist facing a lawsuit from the Bosnian Serb interior minister over his reporting on 21-year-old David Dragicevic's death said it would not stop him from reporting on this and similar cases.

MPs in the Bosnian Serb entity, Republika Srpska, delivered a stunning blow to Milorad Dodik's government on Wednesday when they failed to back a plan to sell a key iron ore mine to Israeli purchasers.

Of 80 MPs present in the chamber, only 39 backed the sale of the Ljubija mine to the Israelis, while 34 MPs were opposed and seven abstained.

Slobodan Vaskovic, one of the most influential bloggers and journalists from Bosnia's Serb-led entity, Republika Srpska, and a prominent critic of RS President Milorad Dodik, has said he has left Bosnia because his life was in danger.

Sinisa Karan, president of the referendum commission in Republika Srpska, told a press conference on Monday that, after all votes have been counted, 99.81 per cent of voters had said "yes" to maintaining January 9 as the mainly Serbian entity's national day.

Karan said that of the 1,219,399 people eligible to vote, 680,116 did so, giving a turnout of 55.67 per cent.

The Minister of the Interior in Bosnia's Serb-majority entity, Republika Srpska, has launched an extraordinary attack on an independent journalist from Banja Luka, Slobodan Vaskovic, accusing him of trying to destroy the entity's institutions.