Brcko District

Former Croatian Defence Council commander Mensur Djakic was sentenced to two years in prison for not punishing the killer of three captured Serbs in the village of Bukvik in the Brcko District in 1992.

Russia has suspended imports of apples from Bosnia and Herzegovina after customs officials found that one company from the eastern Bosnian town of Bijeljina had imported fruit from a third country and re-exported it to Russia, claiming it was from Bosnia, Bosnia's Plant Protection Directorate said on Friday

A total of 98,578 people living in Bosnia and Herzegovina still have the status of displaced persons and a further 20,000 are registered as refugees living outside the country, the Union for Sustainable Return and Integration in Bosnia and Herzegovina NGO told a press conference on Wednesday.

The Russian finance ministry has told its counterpart in Bosnia that Moscow will transfer $125 million to Sarajevo to cover so-called 'clearing debt' of the former Soviet Union, the Bosnian finance ministry said on Tuesday.

The clearing debt was debt that the Soviet Union accumulated to the former Yugoslavia from the trade of goods.

After a five-day search resulted in the discovery of a corpse, the death of ten-year-old Konstantin Stijepic has been blamed on the reluctance of authorities in the Bosnian Serb entity to ask for help from counterparts in the country's Federation entity. 

Bosnia's path to EU is blocked once again as Bosnian Serb officials refuse to cooperate in the preparation of joint answers to the EU questionnaire, the key document that is to guide the country's future integration process.

Just ahead of local elections due in Bosnia this Sunday, a poll shows that the country's main Bosniak [Muslim] party, the Party of Democratic Action, SDA, has retained its dominance in the country's largest entity, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Russia sends aid to flood-affected areas of Bosnia

SARAJEVO -- A Russian airplane carrying 38 tons of humanitarian aid for the areas affected by the May floods landed on Thursday in Sarajevo.

Officers from the Bosnian State Investigative and Protection Agency, SIPA arrested the alleged jihad recruiters during raids in Sarajevo, Kiseljak, Zenica, Magaj, Srebrenik, Zvornik, Buzim and Teslic on Wednesday in an operation codenamed Damask.

Bosnia's Foreign Minister, Zlatko Lagumdzija, on Tuesday said he was confident that enough money would be raised at Wednesday's donors conference in Brussels to meet the country's immediate needs.