News archive on the topic "Sarajevo"

This morning, Sarajevo authorities dismantled one of the signs with the inscription “Welcome to East Sarajevo, the city of 157 thousand Serbs who had to leave Sarajevo.” At the same time, they did not hesitate to enter the territory of the neighboring Republika Srpska for this purpose, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The authorities of the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, and the canton of the same name, which belongs to the Federation (Bosniak-Croatian) BiH, motivated their decision...

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...

Serbian member of the BiH Presidency Milorad Dodik said that the Republika Srpska will not abandon the formation of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC). This was reported by RTRS, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The bill on VSTS (Visoki Sudski i Tužilachki Savjet), according to Dodik, will be submitted for public discussion, and if it comes to Sarajevo’s request for the intervention of the so-called High Representative, then...

Security and counter-terrorism expert Dzevad Galijasevic noted that instead of responding to constructive proposals from the Bosnian Serbs, Sarajevo hosted meetings of paramilitary Islamist organizations. Galijasevic concludes that the Bosniak authorities are encouraging local Islamists to develop anti-Serbian sentiments, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The expert drew attention to the fact that the largest Bosniak, Islamist Democratic Action Party (Stranka...

Why were members of the international commission investigating crimes against the Bosnian Serbs not allowed into the capital Sarajevo? How many Serb civilians died as a result of ethnic cleansing carried out by the Bosniaks? The vice-chairman of the International Independent Commission to investigate the suffering of the Serbs in Sarajevo in 1991-1995, a candidate of political sciences, a former employee of the UN mission in...

The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzezegovina has begun examining the constitutionality of the Rules of Service in the Armed Forces of BiH, which do not allow military personnel to wear beards and hijabs. The corresponding claim was previously filed by the chairman of the oldest Bosniak national-Islamist Democratic Action Party (SDA), deputy speaker of the House of Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bakir Izetbegovic, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Counter-terrorism expert Dzhevad Galiyashevich believes...

British jailers, who was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Hague Tribunal for the first President of the Republika Srpska Radovan Karadzciu, refuse to approve telephone numbers for communicating with relatives and to allow the use of personal belongings. This was reported by the Serbian “News”, a correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports. It has become known that while incarcerated in Parkhurst prison on the Isle of Wight (UK), the local administration refuses to approve a list of telephone numbers, with...

Russia has finally begun to use its Muslim factor in the Balkans. Political scientist Oleg Bondarenko gave this assessment of the recent visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Tatarstan delegation, reports PolitNavigator correspondent. “High-ranking Russian officials of the Muslim faith began to come to the Balkans, to their Islamic part. This means that Moscow has finally begun to play with its Islamic factor in the Balkans. Before that she...

The recently inaugurated mayor of Sarajevo, Benjamina Karic, refused to satisfy the demand of the mayor of Serbian East Sarajevo, Ljubisa Cosic. The mayor of a remote suburb left behind by the Serbs asked that tables mentioning “Serbian criminals” be removed from the city center. According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, Cosic demanded that the signs on the capital’s Town Hall and on Ferhadija Street (under Yugoslavia, which bore the Serbian name Vasya Miskina) be replaced...

In Sokolac, a city that is part of the Istochno Sarajevo community of the Republika Srpska, mourning events were held to mark the anniversary of the exodus of the Sarajevo Serbs. Under the 1995 Dayton Accords imposed on the Bosnian Serbs, the Serbs were losing control of areas of Sarajevo they had defended for three years of war. As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, the government of the Republika Srpska declared the exodus of the Serbs from Sarajevo an event of national significance. Mourning…

The newly elected mayor of the Serbian (eastern) part of Sarajevo, Ljubisa Cosic, and his team of lawyers are preparing an appeal to the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina demanding that the streets of the capital of BiH be returned to their historical names. In his lawsuit, Cosic also intends to demand that the Sarajevo authorities remove memorial plaques mentioning “Serbian aggression.” According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, the team of the mayor of a suburb of the Bosnian capital, remote...

Serbian member of the BiH Presidency Milorad Dodik, in response to the threat of his Bosniak colleague Šefik Dzaferović to “react legally” to the energy cooperation between Serbia and the Republika Srpska, recalled that Sarajevo does not have the authority to do this. This was reported by RTRS, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The BiH Concession Commission has no jurisdiction over property located on the territory of Republika Srpska and in good faith...

At today's extraordinary meeting of the Presidium of BiH, Bosnia leader Šefik Džaferović and his vassal Croat Zeljko Komsic voted for recognition of Kosovo, Serb Milorad Dodik - against. In turn, Dodik tried to carry out a decision to move the BiH embassy in Israel after Kosovo to Jerusalem, but his opponents did not agree, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. What happened today in Sarajevo...

Serbian member of the BiH Presidency Milorad Dodik discussed with Croatian President Zoran Milanovic Sarajevo's attempts to turn Bosnian Croats and Serbs into second-class citizens. In the capital Zagreb, the leader of the Bosnian Serbs donated 100 thousand euros to the Zagreb Orthodox Cathedral damaged by the earthquake, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The Bosnian Serb leader arrived in Croatia at the invitation of the country's President Zoran Milanovic. Like…