NYT: In a victory speech late Sunday, Milorad Dodik, the party’s leader and until recently the autocratic president of Republika Srpska, thanked Mr. Putin for his support and credited Mr. Trump’s 2024 victory with creating a favorable political environment
NYT: Last week, Trump political advisers James Blair and Chris LaCivita spent several days in Republika Srpska, a self-governing territory in Bosnia and Herzegovina, advising its pro-Russian government ahead of Sunday’s elections.
They were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars each through a Washington-based law firm retained by the Republika Srpska government.