Complicated geography Republika Srpska consists of two separate entities connected via a neutral district, Brcko, to the north. The Brcko district was created after the war in 1995 to ensure that ...

Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik told supporters at a rally in Banja Luka on April 18 that the actions of the Republika Srpska Army in Srebrenica in 1995 were "a mistake that left the ...

In December 2016, Republika Srpska’s parliament passed a law stipulating that January 9 is a secular holiday and that the entity’s government will decide how it is celebrated.

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country comprised of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska, which mainly contain ethnic Bosniaks and Serbs respectively. Formed in 1995, the ...

The bus station in Banja Luka, the capital of Republika Srpska, a component of Bosnia-Herzegovina, once a region of Yugoslavia. Banja Luka is largely cut off from Europe, with few flights, trains ...

The Republika Srpska has celebrated Republika Srpska Day on Jan. 9, which is also when it celebrates its orthodox Patron Saint's Day, but the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina ruled ...

Republika Srpska also declared its readiness to declare independence due to the plans of UN High Representative Christian Schmidt to adopt a new property law, which implies the transfer of real ...

On June 27, the Republika Srpska National Assembly (RSNA) passed a controversial law to disregard decisions from Bosnia and Herzegovina’s constitutional court. Proposing this new law, Dodik claimed ...

“Republika Srpska’s youth have been raised on narratives of Great Serbia’s legacy.” Meanwhile, in Serbia the media has left residents largely uninformed about the atrocities that occurred ...

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia Nov 11 (Reuters) - Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, whose secessionist ideas are widely seen as endangering a Bosnian peace deal, said in an interview with Reuters on Thursday ...

Republika Srpska, Decision on Admissibility and Merits, March 7, 2003 (the case concerns the disappearance of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995). [38] Ibid., paras. 186 and 191.