Tensions Rise

Milorad Dodik (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV/EV)

A political crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which escalated last summer when Republika Srpska’s representatives decided to boycott central institutions and launch a process to shift their powers back to the entity, has grown so much so as to threaten the stability of the country. For quite a while the Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milorad Dodik, the leader of the most powerful party in the Bosnian Serb entity, has been turning up the heat on the crisis.