... notice the pressure that has been and continues to be exerted on WB countries to force them to join EU sanctions policy against Russia without any regard to specific national interest and long-lasting ties.
A policy of drawing WB countries into NATO, another ... ... Yugoslavia.
Intra-Bosnian process require close attention and global consensus. The initiative of the former High Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina Valentin Inzko, introduced without prior consultations, to pass a law on criminalizing “genocide denial” ...
... demonstrate transatlantic solidarity and expand the Euro-Atlantic sphere of influence as well as diminish the role of Russia.
Milorad Dodik, the President of Republika Srpska, harshly
criticized
Valentin Inzko, currently serving as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, at a conference organized on the venues of the Security Council by the permanent mission of the Russian Federation to the UN.
Moscow believes there is no added value in preserving the authority of the OHR in view of the fact that this has become a restraining factor for the development of Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the same time, there is no reason ...
... destabilization scenario that was seen as unlikely failed to materialize in the region fully. Nevertheless, specific crisis trends that had been predicted did come true.
In the regard, the return of former members of the Islamic State (IS, banned in the Russian Federation) terrorist group to their countries of residence, in particular to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and the unrecognized Republic of Kosovo
appears
to be a principal problem today. This already creates hotbeds of tensions in predominantly Muslim areas in the Balkans. The European Union’s
position
on the matter is ...
... Balkan states themselves.
Ekaterina Entina, Dejan Novakovic:
Negotiations on Kosovo 2019 — Opportunities and Limitations for Russia
Long-term Scenario of a “Package” Settlement
The “spontaneous” territorial organization designed for the Balkan ... ... in the north of Kosovo, including North Mitrovica;
—
“Great” Croatia
: Republic of Croatia, the third “entitet” in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Herceg Bosna (Herzeg-Bosnia));
—
Montenegro
would receive a part of the Serbian Sandzak;
—
Bosnia ...
... seeking to have the July 1995 killing of Muslim population by the Serb army commanded by Ratko Mladic qualified as genocide. Russia vetoed the resolution, a move welcomed in Serbia and the Republic Srpska and the utterly opposite response in the West, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The resultant heated wrangling seems a manifestation of Russia-West geopolitical confrontation in the Balkans – this time in the form of a debate aimed to win the hearts and minds of the region’s population. What are the sides’ motives and what long-term consequences are in store for Russia?...
... Affairs in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Council of Ministers Zlatko Lagumdžija came to Moscow to participate in these events
[7]
. They were obviously aimed at arousing interest in the Federation as a whole, but to date problems dominate the picture.
Russia and Bosnia and Herzegovina have no agreements on mutual protection of investment and double taxation. There is no bilateral free trade agreement. There are no direct flights from Moscow to Sarajevo (Moscovia announced plans to launch this route last year,...
