Bosna i Hercegovina na ledu između Zapada i Ruske Federacije
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA ON ICE BETWEEN WEST AND RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Summary/Abstract: Bosnia and Herzegovina is no longer in an orbit of strategic interests of the United States. It is an area of interest- meeting the EU, the Russian Federation and Turkey. Since appearance of Eastern Question up to the present, Bosnia and Herzegovina has been a part of Russia’s interest regarding the Orthodox Slavic peoples in the Balkans. In this context, one can understand the relationship of the Russian Federation to the Balkans and its open political issues today, according to the political status of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, and joining South Slavic countries, especially Serbia, in NATO and other Euro-Atlantic associations. Although the Ottoman Empire preserved and saved the Southern and Eastern Orthodox Slavs of Western Latinism and Catholicism, the Russian Federation has not considered Turkey as a political partner for finding an acceptable solution of political relations between the Slavic countries in the Balkans, regardless the important Muslim cultural factor among them. The Russian Federation has very high degree of encouragement and tolerance of Serbian separatism and irredentism in Bosnia and Herzegovina that was documented and illustrated here by a number of political, diplomatic, economic, cultural, scientific facts and examples. The Russian Federation ranks Republika Srpska in the context of frozen conflicts of the former Soviet Union, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Nagorno -Karabakh, Prednjestrovlje on one hand, and Kosovo, on the other.

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