Banja Luka

This happened after Kovacevic reported on an anti-government protest in Banja Luka, the de facto capital of the Serb-controlled part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BNTVreported.

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik on Friday awarded Russian writer Zakhar Prilepein the award of Njegos of the First Order for his work in cultural and spiritual development and his public activity, contributing to friendly relations between Russia and Republika Srpska.

Opposition parties in the Republika Srpska gathered in the Alliance for Victory on Wednesday requested an extraordinary session of the parliament of the mainly Serbian entity, claiming that the prosecution was intentionally delaying the investigation into the unresolved death of a 21-year-old student.

Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti writes this on Tuesday.

According to the newspaper, this message should be handed over to the president of the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Milorad Dodik by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who will visit Sarajava and Banja Luka on September 16-17.

The participants in Banja Luka were political analyst Tanja Topic and social psychologist Srdjan Puhalo.

Banja Luka is the largest town in the Serb Republic (RS), the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

"There is some border there, that is temporary. RS President Milorad Dodik will, together with all of us, make en effort to erase it. That's not nationalism, but European integration," Predrag Markovic said in Banja Luka, addressing a congress of the Socialist Party (SP) of the RS.

Bosnians have gathered for a protest rally over the unresolved case of David Dragicevic, the 21-year-old whose body was discovered in late March in shallow water in the river Crkvena.

Although police first said he most likely drowned, the fact that his body was covered in bruises fuelled suspicion about this version of events.

Bosnians will gather in Banja Luka on Saturday for another mass protest over the unresolved case of David Dragicevic, the 21-year-old whose death has become a rallying cause for opponents of the Bosnian Serb government.

Bosnian Serb lawmakers have thrown out a parliamentary committee report casting doubt on the official explanation for the 'accidental' death in March of a 21-year-old man who protesters say was murdered.

According to him, "certain politicians, and above all RS President Milorad Dodik, are abusing the migrant crisis to collect cheap political points."

"There is no secret plan to settle tens of thousand migrants in the RS, and even if someone made it, it cannot be implemented without me," Mektic told a press conference in Banja Luka.