Europe’s Next Separatist Time Bomb Is Ticking
- Russia befriends Bosnian Serb leader calling for dissolution
- Average wage of $500 a month as government stalls on reforms
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Europe’s latest separatist threat is in its most volatile region: the Balkans.
Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik wants to pull his faction out of Bosnia-Herzegovina, breaking the tripartite power-sharing agreement that’s kept it together since the 1995 peace accord that ended Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II. Dodik’s stance has earned him economic sanctions from the U.S.