Banja Luka

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.

Brnabic immediately met with RS President Milorad Dodik and RS Prime Minister Zeljka Cvijanovic.

The meeting was also attended by RS ministers of industry and energy, and of spatial planning, construction, and ecology.

While in Banja Luka, Brnabic will also attend the ceremony to promote and declare open the Eko Toplana heating plant, and meet with Mayor Igor Radojicic.

Jerenic told the daily Euroblic on Tuesday that the details of the exercise are yet to be agreed on, "but it is possible that airplanes will take part."

However, he added, it is certain that not even live ammunition will be used, "let alone that with depleted uranium."

BANJALUKA - Republika Srpska and Serbia will set up a national council on preservation of the Serbian national identity and act together in an organised manner to implement a series of measures aimed at preventing an assimilation of Serbs, says a Republika Srpska-Serbia agreement seen by Banjaluka-based paper Glas Srpske.

However, the leader of the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina denied that he demanded spacial treatment when he was stopped on his way to the town of Karlovac.

The Banja Luka daily Nezavisne is reporting Dodik as saying that his car was moving at "over 180 kilometers per hour" - and that the fine was "astronomical."

Milorad Dodik on Tuesday said he would cut Ramiz Salkic's salary by 20 per cent because the Bosniak [Muslim] Vice President of the Republika Srpska had "told notorious falsehoods that inflict inevitable damage on the RS's reputation".

These concerns have to do with the intentions of the authorities in the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Serb Republic (RS) - which the paper refers to as "the separatist-led regional government" - and also, with "deepening Russian influence."

These concerns have to do with the intentions of the authorities in the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Serb Republic (RS) - which the paper refers to as "the separatist-led regional government" - and also, with "deepening Russian influence."

The controversial Russian motorcycle club, the Night Wolves, known for its close ties to President Vladimir Putin, has invited the president of Bosnia's mainly Serbian entity to their annual party in Sevastopol, in annexed Crimea.

The bike show is scheduled for August 17.

It remains "unknown whether Dodik will accept the invitation", a source from Dodik's cabinet told BIRN.

Bosnia's security agencies are investigating a Serbian group that the national government said Tuesday was a paramilitary unit formed to create "a problem" for those opposed to Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik.