The mayor there, Milorad Dodik, is that rare Bosnian specimen, a Serb who opposes an ethnic carve-up of Bosnia.

ECONOMIST: Bosnia��s Serbs

And Milorad Dodik, the RS leader, threatens to secede unless it is left free to be run as a quasi-state.

ECONOMIST: Fragile Bosnia

In Bosnia she called for unity and criticised threats of secession made by Milorad Dodik, the president of Republika Srpska, the Serb part of the country.

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Investigators from the Tribunal have recently interviewed military officials in the Bosnian Serb Republic, and the Western-backed Prime Minister, Milorad Dodik, visited the Hague last week.

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The leader of his party is the influential Milorad Dodik.

BBC: NEWS | Europe | Serbs block road to Bosnian unity

The move eventually led to a total removal of hardliners from the government and the Bosnian Serb parliament's election of moderate Milorad Dodik as prime minister of the Serb Republic.

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Milorad Dodik, the premier of the Republika Srpska, the Serb part of Bosnia, wants the same right to self-determination as that exercised by Montenegro last year, and possibly by Kosovo soon.

ECONOMIST: The politics get messy, even for an old hand