Milorad Dodik

The Union for Changes was formally established at a ceremony held on April 30 in Banja Luka, the main city in Republika Srpska.

Scotland and Catalonia similar to RS - Dodik

BANJA LUKA -- The Serb Republic, RS, should separate from Bosnia-Herzegovina as it cannot get "anything useful" from it, Milorad Dodik has told Newsweek.

The president of the Serb Republic entity cited the secession processes in Scotland and Catalonia as "similar examples."

A row erupted after the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, a party from Bosnia’s Serb-led entity, Republika Srpska, insisted that the next head of the agency that regulates the country’s broadcasting and telecommunications sectors and allocates frequencies should be a Serb.

BELGRADE - Students of the Belgrade and Banjaluka academies of arts performed the play "Veterans of the Salonica Front Speak" at the National Theatre in Belgrade late Saturday.

The play, based on a docudrama by Antonije Djuric and directed by Cisana Murusidze, is part of the official programme marking the centenary of the outbreak of World War I.

Dodik, ambassador discuss combating “electoral engineering”

BANJA LUKA -- Milorad Dodik met with Serbian Ambassador to Bosnia Stanimir Vukićević to discuss the RS lawmakers' activities to enact regulations on place of residence.

BANJA LUKA– Republika Srpska (RS) President Milorad Dodik has met with Serbian Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) Stanimir Vukicevic to discuss RS lawmakers' activities aimed at enacting regulations on place of abode and residence to prevent "electoral engineering" in the BiH entity.

Nikola Selakovic, vice-president of Belgrade’s ruling Serbian Progressive Party, SNS, told a conference of the Serb Democratic Party, SDS, in Bijeljina on Sunday that it had his backing ahead of polls due in Bosnia and Herzegovina in October this year.

BELGRADE/BANJA LUKA - Republika Srpska (RS) President Milorad Dodik and Serbia's Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic have discussed in Banja Luka ways of improving the cooperation between RS and Serbia.

U.S. study: Serbs and Croats do not want Bosnia

BANJA LUKA -- The main reason that Bosnia-Herzegovina is not functioning is not a shortcoming of the Dayton agreement, says a study on the U.S. policy in that country.

Republika Srpska Finance Minister Zoran Tegeltija on April 2 said the entity was still negotiating the terms of a Russian loan, which will hopefully supplant the need to go cap in hand to the IMF.

“The negotiations are being led, but not all conditions of the credit or the deadlines have been defined,” Tegeltija said.