Milorad Dodik, the President of Republika Srpska (RS), Bosnia’s Serb-dominated part, will together with the RS Prime Minister meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in early October, Dodik said on Tuesday.

Dodik said that the public will be informed of what he and RS Prime Minister Zeljka Cvijanovic spoke about with the Russian President after they return from the trip.  

He also announced that an ‘important figure’ from the political sphere in the US will visit Banja Luka, the administrative centre of the RS entity.