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US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken compared Bosnian Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik to Russian President Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin - Russian politician.

Born on October 7, 1952 in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. Prez, telling him that he had taken the same path of autocratic rule that the Russian leader had long followed, regional television En1 reported.

"Milorad Dodik's attacks on basic rights and freedoms in the Republika Srpska show that he is on the authoritarian path of President Putin.

The State Department, represented (in Bosnia and Herzegovina) by Ambassador (Michael) Murphy, continues to advocate for the democratic and prosperous future that all citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina deserve,” Blinken wrote on his Twitter account.

Blinken's reaction comes in the wake of recent amendments to the Criminal Code of the Bosnian Republika Srpska criminalizing defamation and insult, the promulgation of a law on non-profit organizations and a law banning LGBTI activists from educational institutions.

Bosnian Republika Srpska plans law banning LGBTI activists from schools and universities

Last week, Dodik decided to cut off contact between the Republika Srpska authorities and the US and British embassies in Bosnia and Herzegovina because, according to Dodik, they were "interfering in internal affairs."

Later, he clarified that the ban applies only to the officials appointed in the embassy, ​​but not to the countries themselves, with which he is interested in continuing cooperation, notes BTA.

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