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In a clear sign of support for the controversial Bosnian Serb referendum on their national day, Russia's ambassador to Bosnia, Petar Ivancov, held a series of meetings with Republika Srpska leaders on Monday.

As much as it is looking ahead, Serbia has no reason to be ashamed when it looks behind, President Tomislav Nikolic has said.

According to his press service, he made the statement on Thursday in Thessaloniki after honoring the fallen Serbian soldiers buried at the Allied military cemetery Zeitenlik. Nikolic was accompanied by RS President Milorad Dodik.

RS President Milorad Dodik on Thursday said his visit to Russia on September 22 was planned in advance.

RS President Milorad Dodik is "the new Slobodan Milosevic," former Croatian President Stjepan Mesic has said.

Speaking for the Belgrade-based tabloid Alo, he also described "the messages of politicians" exchanged between Zagreb and Belgrade recently as "very dangerous, even if they are the result of the election campaign (in Croatia)."

RS President Milorad Dodik said in Belgrade on Tuesday that the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina "has never been in greater danger of disappearing."

The post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina has two entities - the Serb Republic (Republika Srpska; RS), and the Muslim-Croat Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina (FBiH).

BANJALUKA - Republika Srpska (RS) is a state, and it is capable of defending itself by democratic means, RS President Milorad Dodik said in Banjaluka at Saturday's pro-government rally titled "With our hearts for Srpska - Stop the treason."

BANJA LUKA - Tensions over the possibility of riots in the streets of Banja Luka, Republika Srpska (RS), during two rival protests, one called by the opposition and the other by the ruling party, on Saturday, are mounting, and the police announced securing the events with at least 2,000 police officers.
    

RS President Milorad Dodik has sent a letter to the UN secretary-general presenting his accusations against the judicial institutions of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The letter was sent along with the Serb Republic's report to the UN Security Council - in which the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina gives its view of the situation in the RS and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Bosnian Serb parties are feuding over 35 million euros that Russia has offered to Republika Srpska, to clear its share of the foreign debt that Bosnia owed the old USSR.

The total debt Bosnia owes the Soviet Union is about 125.2 million US dollars [around 110 million euros].

The chief prosecutor of Bosnia-Herzegovina has confirmed that his office is investigating RS President Milorad Dodik in connection with the Pavlovic Bank.

"The investigation is conducted within the 'Pavloviv Bank' (case). Three or four investigations against Dodik have been closed," Goran Salihovic has told the Sarajevo-based daily Oslobodjenje.