Milorad Dodik: Bosnian-Serb leader sentenced to jail in landmark trial

Dodik's trial had been widely seen as a test for the Balkan nation's weak central government.

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But the Bosnian-Serb leader Milorad Dodik made light of the verdict at the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The president of the country's majority-Serb Republika Srpska region told supporters at a rally in the regional capital Banja Luka there was "no reason to worry".

His conviction on charges of ignoring the rulings of the international High Representative was "nonsense", he said.

Dodik said he had "learned to deal with more difficult things" and called on the crowd in Republika Srpska's de facto capital to "be cheerful".

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