US Concessions to Dodik Strengthen Moscow’s Hand in Bosnia

Back in October 2025, Milorad Dodik, leader of Republika Srpska’s ruling SNSD party and former president of the Serb-led entity, met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Minsk, Belarus, and spoke of the “high level of strategic cooperation” between Republika Srpska and Moscow. The next day, the US Treasury Department removed him from its sanctions list, together with 47 others . The Treasury gave no reasons; the State Department later pointed to “constructive actions taken by the National Assembly of Republika Srpska in recent weeks”. Eleven months on, there is enough on the record to judge the result.