Planned Serb Vote Stirs Separatism Fears in Bosnia

Bosnia's autonomous Serb region is set to defy its highest court with a referendum on a national holiday on Sunday that may stoke separatist sentiment lingering since the 1990s war. The United States, which brokered Bosnia's 1995 peace treaty, and European Union fear the plebiscite could destabilize the region anew. But Russia, a traditional Serb ally, backs the vote and the Bosnian Serb leader who was headed to Moscow on Thursday for talks with President Vladimir Putin in a show...

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