Milorad Dodik, the former president of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska and leader of its ruling party, met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday in a last-ditch attempt to hold on to power.
In August, Bosnia’s state court sentenced Dodik to a year in prison and banned him from holding the position of Republika Srpska’s president for six years.
Bosnia’s Central Election Commission, CEC, later annulled his mandate and called extraordinary elections for the Republika Srpska presidency, due on November 23.
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