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Bosnia - Republika Srpska - politics

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Milorad Dodik
Milorad Dodik

“Those who claim that Republika Srpska is isolated probably think that we should be sitting in [U.S. President Joe] Biden's office and watching him stumble. Let them say what they want. After Lukashenka, I will talk with Putin in two or three days, then with the president of Tatarstan [Rustam Minnikhanov].”

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Serbian member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency
19 Feb 2024 7 2
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Liljana Smiljanic
Liljana Smiljanic

“They [Bosnian Serbs] say it [January 9 holiday] guarantees liberty for them, and the best conditions to live in Bosnia and Herzegovina. On the other hand for Bosniaks … it is the start of the war horrors that they endured during the 90s, and later on war crimes and genocide in Srebrenica.”

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Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Banja Luka, Bosnia
09 Jan 2022 7 3
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Branislav Borenovic
Branislav Borenovic

“Dodik survives on conflict. He hates stability because he then has to explain why we are living like we do. Mr. Dodik plays on the emotions of his people and doesn't care about the consequences.”

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Opposition leader in Republika Srpska (Bosnia Herzegovina)
02 Jan 2022 3 2
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Branislav Borenovic
Branislav Borenovic

“[Having separate armies - Republika Srpska army and Bosnian army] It means conflict, war, and death. Tell us about your projections, Mr Dodik: what does the RS army represent? Do we have money for tanks, airplanes? The conditions to put up checkpoints at the entity line? Give your answers to the citizens.”

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Leader of the opposition Party of Democratic Progress (Bosnia)
11 Dec 2021 8 3
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Kurt Bassuener
Kurt Bassuener

“It requires a security response such as reinforcing EUFOR, which is deployed to ensure a safe and secure environment but has been shrinking and below deterrent capability for more than a decade. There's more than enough weaponry, and more than enough vulnerable people to allow something very bad to happen. The potential for miscalculation among the actors who have coercive power in Bosnia is very, very high. I think it is a very legitimate fear that unless this is addressed seriously with security tools in the immediate term - within days, weeks, not months - it is ever more likely that something bad will happen that not might be planned but will lead to something that will develop a dynamic of its own.”

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Senior associate at the Democratization Policy Council, a Berlin-based think-tank
05 Nov 2021 2 3
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Christian Schmidt
Christian Schmidt

“Not all MPs are there, but I hope they will attend and take the opportunity to talk because parliament is a place for dialogue. Bosnia and Herzegovina is now in a situation where certain elected representatives are paralyzing the work of state institutions, which is not in line with the oath that everyone has taken, and politicians who do not focus on real challenges, in the long run, will not have support.”

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High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
28 Oct 2021 0 5
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Ismail Cidic
Ismail Cidic

“I understand that 'both-sideism' is always a safe option for every diplomat, but the consequences of such an approach are well known from the 1990s. If they are not willing to react because of the people of Bosnia, they should do it at least because of the leaders in their countries who cannot afford yet another refugee crisis or a Russian-backed conflict right next to the NATO borders. Pro-Bosnian political leaders and state institutions must be prepared for dangerous scenarios.”

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Head of the Bosnian Advocacy Center
21 Oct 2021 3 6
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Jasmin Mujanovic
Jasmin Mujanovic

“The RS [Republika Srpska] entity assembly has officially adopted a proposal to create its own drug procurement agency; the first of its para-state offices following Dodik's 'pull out' from BiH [Bosnia and Herzegovina] institutions. Critical that BIH authorities & international community respond credibly to this putsch. This is secession in all but name. And he's testing the waters. If Dodik and his masters in Moscow and Belgrade feel the response here is weak - which I fear it is likely to be - they're going to escalate even further.”

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Political Scientist
20 Oct 2021 4 4
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Emir Suljagic
Emir Suljagic

“Mono-ethnic institutions like the ones Mr. Dodik plans to re-create are vehicles for genocide in the 1990s. Police, military, intelligence, and security services were at the centre of organised and systematic violence against non-Serbs. These institutions considered Bosniaks' existence an existential threat. If we fail to deter these threats, the ultimate price we will pay is another Srebrenica [genocide].”

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Director of the Srebrenica Memorial Centre
17 Oct 2021 5 5
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Milorad Dodik
Milorad Dodik

“The agreement we have given for the defense law, the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, and the Indirect Taxation Authority will be withdrawn. We will withdraw consent for the [joint] army in a vote in the Serb-run Republika Srpska parliament.”

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Serbian member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency
08 Oct 2021 4 5
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Vedran Džihić
Vedran Džihić

“Behind that is the need to protect Dodik's own position and the SNSD structures, which in RS [Republika Srpska] have created a kind of kleptocratic-clientelistic rule, which behind the screen of caring for the Serbian people and nationalist rhetoric ultimately takes care of itself. The position of Dodik and SNSD [Alliance of Independent Social Democrats] is well shaken in some parts of RS and they feel it. It is also a reason for great nervousness and intensified ethnonationalism rhetoric and artificially raising tensions and creating crises. For politicians like Milorad Dodik, ready to do anything to stay in power and protect their own privileges and the privileges of the clique, there is no life outside of politics.”

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Senior Researcher with the Austrian Institute for International Affairs and a lecturer at the University of Vienna
08 Jun 2021 5 4
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Milorad Dodik
Milorad Dodik

“The Office of the High Representative in Bosnia should be closed. The international community's experiment in Bosnia and attempts to appoint a new high representative must be stopped.”

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Serbian member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency
02 Jun 2021 1 3
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Milorad Dodik
Milorad Dodik

“We cannot talk about the European path without talking about the current political situation in BiH. Many believe that BiH has a systemic error in terms of its existence. There are different opinions – according to one of them, the signing of the Dayton Accords itself began the integration process. The second opinion goes towards unitary country creation, while the third goes towards the need of full autonomy preservation, and the fourth that BiH should disband peacefully. Because of all that, BiH is a much more complex country today, and many even consider it a failure or a country of frozen conflict, which is not able to find a basic internal consensus.”

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Serbian member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency
14 May 2021 2 4
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