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Bosnian Serb leader Dodik sentenced to prison for defying peace envoy

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik [Elvis Barukcic/AFP]

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik has been sentenced to one year in prison for defying the rulings of the top international official overseeing peace in the Balkan country.

The court in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, on Wednesday also banned the president of Republika Srpska, the country’s autonomous Serb republic, from participating in politics for six years.

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