EU-member Slovenia bans pro-Russian Bosnian Serb leader from entering the country

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• EU-member Slovenia bans pro-Russian Bosnian Serb leader from entering the country</p>

<p>September 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM</p>

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<p>Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik attends a news conference following his talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at Zinaida Morozova's Mansion in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025. (Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool Photo via AP) ()</p>

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

<p>The Slovenian government's decision followed Dodik's 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.</p>

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

<p>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 and family. Dodik has also faced U.K., German and Austrian sanctions.</p>

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

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

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

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

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

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

<p>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>

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