{"id":416126,"date":"2025-09-11T15:35:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/416126\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T15:35:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:35:15","slug":"slovenia-slaps-entry-ban-on-pro-russian-bosnian-serb-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/416126\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovenia slaps entry ban on pro-Russian Bosnian Serb leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) \u2014 Slovenia on Thursday banned separatist pro-Russian Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik<\/a> from entering the small European Union country.<\/p>\n

The Slovenian government\u2019s decision followed Dodik\u2019s refusal to step down from the position of the president of a Serb-run entity in Bosnia despite a court ruling that removed him from office<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Dodik in August was formally ousted by Bosnia\u2019s electoral authorities after he was sentenced to a year in prison and banned from politics for six years. <\/p>\n

Dodik, who travelled to Russia this week, has repeatedly called for the separation of the Serb-run half of Bosnia to join Serbia, which has prompted U.S. sanctions against himself and his close associates<\/a> and family. Dodik has also faced U.K., German and Austrian sanctions.<\/p>\n

Slovenian media have reported that Dodik\u2019s family owns a number of properties in the country, including villas at the Adriatic Sea coast. <\/p>\n

There were no immediate reports that Dodik has tried to enter Slovenia recently.<\/p>\n

The United States played a key role in brokering a peace agreement that ended Bosnia\u2019s 1992-95 bloody ethnic conflict<\/a> that killed 100,000 people and displaced millions.<\/p>\n

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Dodik\u2019s policies are widely seen as undermining the tense peace in Bosnia between the country\u2019s three ethnic groups \u2014 Bosniaks, who are mainly Muslim, Serbs and Croats. <\/p>\n

Russia and neighboring Serbia have supported Dodik in his rejection of the decisions to remove him from office, calling them anti-Serb. <\/p>\n

The Dayton peace accords<\/a> for Bosnia allowed for the creation of the Serb-run and Bosniak-Croat entities, bound by joint central institutions. <\/p>\n

There have been fears that Moscow could help stir instability in Bosnia and the Balkans to avert some of the attention from the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) \u2014 Slovenia on Thursday banned separatist pro-Russian Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik from entering the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[46246,30,299,1699,4179,46243,285,332,13492,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-416126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-bosnia-and-herzegovina","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european-union","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-milorad-dodik","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-russia","16":"tag-slovenia","17":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115186403060074882","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}