SARAJEVO: The separatist president of the Serb part of Bosnia vowed to defy a court ruling banning him from political office for six years on Friday and said he would seek help from both Russia and US President Donald Trump. Milorad Dodik was responding to a ruling by Bosnia’s appeals court upholding a sentence handed down to him for defying the orders of the international peace envoy, whose role is to prevent multi-ethnic Bosnia sliding back into civil war. Dodik told reporters he would continue to go to work. “I do not accept the verdict,” he told reporters.

Milorad Dodik rejects appeals court’s decision, saying he will seek help of Russia and the Trump administration.

A Bosnian appeals court on Friday upheld a one-year prison sentence and a six-year political ban for pro-Russia Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik over...

SARAJEVO: The separatist president of the Serb part of Bosnia vowed to defy a court ruling banning him from political office for six years on Friday and said he would seek help…

BELGRADE: Serbia rejected on Saturday a Bosnian appeals court ruling upholding a prison sentence for Milorad Dodik, the leader of Bosnia’s ethnic Serb entity, the Republika Srpska…