# Milorad Dodik

## Identity and office

Milorad Dodik is the SNSD centre of Republika Srpska politics. In 2025 a BiH court banned him from office over defiance of the High Representative; he stepped aside. Željka Cvijanović is unresolved.

This page reuses ukraine-war for Russia-alignment while the war runs. It does not mint a second Balkans war. It does not hang RS or Kosovo on territorial-revisionism.

[US Treasury](/organizations/us-treasury) on 17 January 2025 named his patronage network and a 2024 secession working group. 2017 and 2022 listings for Dayton obstruction sit next door. Moscow visits and public alignment with Kremlin lines during 2022–2025 are the wartime file. Aleksandar Vučić is the live Belgrade counterpart. Vladimir Putin is Moscow.

## Documented benefits

Entity social transfers and Banja Luka construction are neighbouring prestige files, not a rebate of secession votes.

## Contributions and limits

He instructed the working group and took the Moscow line. The High Representative and BiH court are neighbouring. Sharing Dayton with other entities is not a reason to drop the row.

## Causal chain

Sanctions texts and secession votes strengthen ukraine-war as alignment-while-war. They are not territorial-revisionism.

## What the score does not say

No exact number. Direction is negative. A later genuine Dayton compliance gazette would be a different date. Cvijanović remains a name, not a minted biography.

## Dated facts

- 2025: US Treasury lists Dodik’s patronage network and a 2024 RS secession working group. https://factrail.ai/facts/ba-dodik-treasury-secession-2025-01-17. Sources: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-lifts-sanctions-bosnian-serb-leader-dodik-his-allies-2025-10-29/, https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2793.

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/people/milorad-dodik