East Sarajevo, Republika Srpska (BETAPHOTO/YouTube PrintScreen)
Republika Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is celebrating Republika Srpska Day on Jan. 9, which the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has declared unconstitutional.
The central celebration with a ceremonial procession will take place in East Sarajevo, unlike in previous years, when Republika Srpska Day was marked in Banjaluka.
On the occasion of RS Day, a ceremony was held in Banjaluka late on Jan. 8 which was attended, among others, by Serbian National Assembly Speaker Vladimir Orlic, Serbian government officials, Serbian Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Milan Mojsilovic, and Russian Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Igor Kalabukhov.
Previously, on the occasion of RS Day, Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik awarded his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin the Order of Republika Srpska on a necklace. Dodik awarded the same, highest order of RS which is awarded to foreign officials, to Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Porfirije.
Republika Srpska celebrates Jan. 9, the day when in 1992 then Assembly of the Serbian People in Bosnia and Herzegovina, comprising Serbian members of the parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina elected in the first multi-party elections in 1990, proclaimed the Republic of the Serbian People in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was later renamed Republika Srpska.
The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has disputed Jan. 9 as Republika Srpska Day and declared celebration of that date unconstitutional.
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