News archive on the topic "Bosnia"

Thirty-two years ago, Croatian militants killed 46 Serb civilians in Bosnian Siekovac, whose memory was honored in the Republika Srpska. This was reported by Politika, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. In the border village of Siekovac, near Brod in the Republika Srpska, mourning events were held in memory of the crime committed there against the Serb civilian population. On March 26, 1992 they entered...

Russian State Duma deputy Konstantin Zatulin admitted that he took part in hostilities in Bosnia in 1993. He stated this from the parliamentary rostrum during a discussion of the appeal to the UN in connection with the 25th anniversary of the aggression of NATO member states against Yugoslavia, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “This is the first time I will say this. I fought in Bosnia and...

London needs to strengthen its opposition to Russia in the Balkans, where the risk of military conflict has seriously increased. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports that Arminka Helik, a former special adviser to the head of the Foreign Ministry and peer of the House of Lords, stated this during a hearing on foreign policy in the British Parliament. “Vladimir Putin sees Ukraine not as a final destination, but as a starting point in his campaign to...

The West destroyed Yugoslavia and continues to pit the peoples living on its former territory against each other. A striking example is the situation in Bosnia, where the interests of the Republika Srpska are ignored. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated this at a press conference in Macedonia. “Our Western colleagues encourage some ethnic groups in the Balkans, but in relation to others they simply take an aggressive dictatorial position, demanding that they agree...

The head of the defense department of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Zukan Helez, said that there are military training camps on the territory of the Serbian entity. At the same time, according to the minister, “certain people from Russia” are running everything in them, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. BiH Defense Minister Zukan Helez discovered paramilitary forces on the territory of the Republika Srpska (according to the Dayton Agreement, the RS has the right to its own army,...

The Appeal Board of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo acquitted the former commander of the Fourth Corps of the BiH Army, Ramiz Drekovic, who was accused of war crimes. Drekovic was tried for ordering an artillery shelling of the peaceful Serbian village of Kalinovik in 1995, as a result of which schoolchildren were killed and wounded, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Appeal Board of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina...

The NATO seminar in Bosnia was attended by the deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Law Enforcement Affairs Galina Mikhailyuk. She promised to study and implement the experience of “post-war reconstruction” of an impoverished country under Western colonial rule. According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, the so-called 105th Rose-Roth seminar of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly is taking place in Sarajevo these days to promote the interests of the Alliance in the countries of Central and...

President of the Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik said that the leadership of the entity will announce separation from BiH if the central authorities try to take away property from the Serbs. The leader of the Bosnian Serbs stated this to the Croatian weekly Nacional, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Today there are from 10 to 15 countries that have expressed their readiness to support it [the independence of the RS], and among them there are EU members, and...

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has once again postponed the hearing in the case of the commander of the 5th Corps of the BiH Army, Atif Dudakovic. The defendant is accused of killing 300 Serb civilians and destroying 38 Orthodox churches. As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, the day before the BiH Court postponed hearings in the trial of “Atif Dudakovich and others” for the reason that “one of the accused is on a hospital...

The disciplinary commission expelled Valentina Vujicic and Sladjana Todic, Serbian students of the Faculty of Criminalistics, Criminology and Security, from the University in Sarajevo for three years. Previously, the girls were harassed by classmates, the dean’s office, the university’s management and the Bosniak media, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The Disciplinary Commission of the University of Sarajevo imposed a three-year ban on the studies of Valentina and Sladjana, despite the fact that they…

The remains of Jadranko Glavaš, a prisoner of the Sarajevo Silos concentration camp, recently identified through DNA analysis, will be buried on Saturday in the city of Sokolac. Twenty-nine-year-old Glavash was killed in 1993 by Bosniak guards, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The identification of the remains was carried out by representatives of the Australian Association of Serb Victims of the Civil War in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1999 (after the pogroms and...

Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik stood up for two Serbian students who were harassed by classmates at a university in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo. Based on the denunciation of Bosniak students, the Bosnian prosecutor's office opened criminal cases against the girls for inciting ethnic hatred. According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, the incident occurred during a correspondence on social networks between classmates from the Faculty of Criminology at the University of Sarajevo. Bosniak student Aydin Fazlagic started communicating...

During the visit of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama to Bosnia and Herzegovina, representatives of the Sarajevo elite held meetings with him without the participation of colleagues from Republika Srpska. Serbian ministers promised to “respond adequately” to such behavior, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the protocol of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama's visit to BiH, a meeting was planned with members of the country's government. And this meeting took place...

President of Republika Srpska (entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BiH - approx.) Milorad Dodik said that the US Embassy in Sarajevo supports the idea of ​​an armed rebellion in Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to him, such a revolt will be carried out by local Muslims using American weapons, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Another interethnic and interfaith scandal arose in Bosnia and Herzegovina after statements by the head of...