Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic traveled to Bosnia and Herzegovina to support Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik after he was sentenced to a one-year prison term Wednesday.

The Kremlin has condemned the conviction of Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik and warned it could destabilize the situation in the Balkans Read Full Article at RT.com

Bosnia's Serb Republic is expected to bar the state police and judiciary from operating on its territory on Thursday, a day after a state court ordered the Russian-backed separatist Serb president to step down for defying an international peace envoy.

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A court in Bosnia on Wednesday sentenced Milorad Dodik, the pro-Russia Bosnian Serb president, to one year in prison and banned him from engaging in politics for six years over his separatist actions.

Supporters of separatist Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik have rallied as tensions soared on the eve of a scheduled court verdict that could order the pro-Russia Serb leader banned from politics o

Bosnian Serb nationalist leader Milorad Dodik was sentenced to one year in prison on Wednesday and ordered to step down from his role as president of the country's Serb-dominated region for six years for defying orders of an international peace envoy.

The Kremlin said on Thursday it believed a one-year jail term and political ban handed down to Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik was politically-motivated and could have negative and destabilising consequences for the Balkans.

But the Bosnian-Serb leader Milorad Dodik made light of the verdict at the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The president of the country's majority-Serb Republika Srpska region told supporters at a rally in the regional capital Banja Luka there was "no reason to worry".