Bosnian Serb nationalist leader Milorad Dodik was sentenced to one year in prison on Wednesday and ordered to step down from his role as president of the country's Serb-dominated region for six years for defying orders of an international peace envoy.

A Bosnia court on Wednesday sentenced Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik to one year in jail and ordered him to step down as president of the country's Serb-dominated region for six years for defying orders of an international peace envoy.

A court in Bosnia has sentenced the pro-Russia Bosnian Serb president, Milorad Dodik, to one year in prison and banned him from politics for six years over his separatist actions as tensions mount in

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".

Herzegovina has sentenced Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik in absentia to one year in prison for defying the country’s top international overseer, barring him from office for six years.

Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik will find out on Wednesday whether he faces jail for allegedly defying decisions by an international official overseeing peace in the Balkan country. Dodik,