Slovenia bars Bosnian Serb separatist leader Dodik


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  • Thursday, 11 Sep 2025

Milorad Dodik, who was recently stripped of his mandate as the autonomous Serb Republic's president by Bosnia's election commission, attends a press conference following talks with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, Russia, September 9, 2025. Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

SARAJEVO (Reuters) -Slovenia has barred entry to the separatist leader of the Serb part of Bosnia, who has been sentenced to a year in jail and banned from politics for defying Bosnia's international peace envoy, Deputy Prime Minister Matej Arcon said on Thursday.

Arcon said the decision preventing the Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik from entering Slovenia was effective immediately, marking the latest travel restriction against him.

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