# Seriously Balkans - The BiEPAG Talks, episode 18

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Podcast: [Seriously Balkans - The BiEPAG Talks](https://stenobird.com/podcast/seriously-balkans-the-biepag-talks-6296779)
Published: 2025-12-11T11:58:06+00:00
Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/seriously-balkans-the-biepag-talks/episodes/a-change-in-republika-srpska
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 A Change in Republika Srpska? Host: Damir Kapidžić, BiEPAG member Guests: Dženeta Karabegović , Associate Professor at the University of Salzburg, and  Vedran Džihić , a member of BiEPAG This episode reflects on developments that have been keeping Bosnia and Herzegovina on edge. In the past year, the longtime leader of Bosnian Serbs and president of the ruling SNSD party, Milorad Dodik, was sentenced by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was sentenced to one year in prison, a sentence he commuted, removed from the office of President of Respublika Srpska, a subnational entity of BiH, and barred from holding public office for six years. He still disputes the sentence, even I though it is final. Since then, early elections were held in RS to fill his vacated, which were won by Siniša Karan, Dodik’s chosen successor. The shifting dynamics of the transatlantic alliance and general elections scheduled for October 2026 for their complicate the situation. To what all of this means and if we can expect a change in RS and for BiH? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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