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The leadership of the Republika Srpska, when Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov negotiated with them a few days ago, committed impeccability in the film.
Milorad Dodik, the leader of the one-third Serb majority in Bosnia and a Serbian member of the three-ethnic presidency, presented a three-hundred-year-old gold icon to Lavrov, who was negotiating with him. Between two orthodox, this might even be normal, except it wasn’t just any icon.
But he stole.
That is, from Luhask, a city in eastern Ukraine on the front line of the former Russian-Ukrainian fighting. Furthermore, this fact was not revealed by an investigative journalist or a foreign secret service, but by SRNA, the official news agency of the Bosnian Serbs. They posted a short article and several photos of the icon on the day of the giveaway, mentioning that it was “found” in Luhasznk and had a stamp.
They even published a photo showing the stamp itself, which, according to its inscription, proved that the icon was part of the Ukrainian cultural heritage.
Lugansk has been ruled by pro-Russian separatists since 2014 and it has been known for a long time, for example, from investigative articles and court rulings like this one, that they have been assisted early on by foreign fighters of Serbian nationality. Also from Serbia and Bosnia.
The Ukrainian embassy in Bosnia, which had already approached Bosnian foreign affairs in an official protest letter two days later, demanding clarification of the icon’s origin, needed no more.
The fact that this is definitely a stolen item has been confirmed today by the Russian side itself. Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement Saturday that an icon donated to Lavrov would be sent back to Bosnia so donors could “clarify its origin” with the help of Interpol.
(We thank our reader, Gáspár, for this advice).
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