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.

Bosnia's Serb political leader Milorad Dodik was sentenced to one year in prison and banned from holding public office for defying the decision of the fragile country's international peace representative.

Milorad Dodik’s decades-long disruptive reign in Bosnia may be over as a top court bans him from politics and sentences him to prison.