Outline of Republika Srpska

Military exercises with the participation of NATO's A-10 aircraft squadrons are being planned in Bosnia and Herzegovina's (BiH) Serb Republic (Republika Srpska) in 2019. That's according to a report by "Dnevnik," a Sarajevo-based website, referencing official documents of the Ministry of Defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday Serbia would lend stronger support to various development projects in Republika Srpska and within Serb communities in Croatia, without endangering the territorial integrity of neighbouring countries or encroaching upon the rights of other nations.

BELGRADE - Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik awarded the Order of Republika Srpska on a collar - the highest honour of Republika Srpska - to Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Thursday.

An energy company in Bosnia's mainly Serbian entity, Republika Srpska, has threatened to suspend delivery of gas to the city of Sarajevo by the end of February, unless an agreement is reached on prices.

Its dispute is with the energy company BH-Gas, which is owned by the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia's other entity.

After receiving it two years ago, Bosnia has finally prepared its answers to the lengthy EU Questionnaire, Bosnian authorities confirmed on Thursday.

"It is 20,000 pages long, so we need to go through that before our session next week," Dragan Mektic, Bosnia's Minister of Security, said on Thursday.

Moves by the authorities in Bosnia's mainly Serbian entity to beef up the entity's police force have caused jitters in the deeply divided c0untry.

University professors from Bosnia's mainly Serbian entity, Republika Srpska, have complained about a new decision that appears to ban them from attend state-level events that discuss education in the entity.

They told BIRN that the ban limits their freedom of speech and their role in society as educators.

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.

Igor Bilbija, member of an unregistered Serbian right-wing organization active in Bosnia called "Serbian Honour", on Monday denied allegations of helping to form a paramilitary unit.