RS government

The government of Republika Srpska, one of two entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, said it would "end cooperation" with US and UK embassies in the country from Thursday, in reaction to recently imposed US sanctions on the director of the Administration for Geodetic and Property Affairs of Republika Srpska, RUGIPP, Dragan Stankovic.

According to Stanivukovic, Dodik will try to change the regulations in the Republika Srpska, establishing the new position of city "manager" who would be appointed by the city council and hold all effective powers.

Authorities in Republika Srpska, RS, Bosnia's mainly Serbian entity, have denied that investors are using a lack of oversight, owing to the situation with coronavirus pandemic, to illegally build small hydropower plants on some of the country's unspoiled but increasingly endangered watercourses.

The rights organisation Transparency International, TI, in Bosnia and Herzegovina has called on Zeljka Cvijanovic, President of the Serb-led entity, Republika Srpska, to withdraw a decree banning the spread of panic and disorder during a state of emergency, saying that the Bosnia's constitution does not allow the entities to suspend the right to freedom of expression and opinion.

Bosnia's mainly Serb entity has opened a new front in its disputes with the country's Bosniaks over a demand for the establishment of a clear line of demarcation between Bosnia's two entities.

Several hundreds protesters, led by opposition MPs in the assembly of Republika Srpska, the mainly Serbian entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina, gathered for a second time in the Mladen Stojanovic park in Banja Luka, close to the RS government building after the authorities refused to allow them to gather in the central Krajina Square.

The Muslim charity Merhamet, as well as Caritas Banja Luka, the Catholic relief organisation, will receive far less funding in 2019, according to the draft version of the Republika Srpska budget.

Around hundred people gathered on Monday in Banja Luka, the administrative centre of the Bosnia's mainly Serbian entity, Republika Srpska, for the consecration of a new Russian church and cultural centre, which are being built in the centre of the city.

Republika Srpska Interior Minister Dragan Lukac on Monday said local police had arrested a suspect in the case related to the attack on journalist Vladimir Kovacevic on August 26.

"Kovacevic recognized the attacker," Darko Culum, RS Police Director, said at the press conference.

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.