Republika Srpska president Milorad Dodik has dismissed a claim–made in a recent report on the Western Balkans and the Ukraine Crisis–that Dodik planned to declare independence during the recent Crimea crisis. According to the report’s authors, Bodo Weber and Kurt Bassuener, President Dodik’s plan to separate RS from BiH was only discouraged by Serbia’s prime minister, Aleksandar Vucic.
The report noted that the Serbian government led by Vucic “has struggled to maintain a tactical balance between its goal of EU integration and its special relationship with Russia.”
Dodik denied having concocted any such plan, saying that it was all part of the “hysteria in the West around Russia and Crimea”.
“I believe that Mr Weber is informed, but this time he missed it all because everything that he said is spin and a hoax,” Dodik told the Serbian daily Danas.
