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[[File:Bosnia and Herzegovina, administrative divisions - en (entities) - colored.svg|thumb|alt=Map|Location of the Republika Srpska (orange) and [[Brčko District]] (green) in [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]]]]
[[File:Balkans2010.png|thumb|upright=1.0|alt=Another map|Central and eastern region of the former Yugoslavia (Republika Srpska shown in darker blue)]]
The [[Dayton Agreement]] ended the [[Bosnian War]] and created the federal republic of [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] (BiH), which consists of the Bosniak and Croat-inhabited [[Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina]] (FBiH) and the Serb-inhabited [[Republika Srpska]] (RS).  Although the [[Bosnian Serbs]] were viewed as "anti-Dayton" during the first years after the war, since 2000 they have been staunch supporters of the Dayton Agreement and the preservation of RS. [[Bosniaks]] generally view RS as illegitimate,<ref>((cite book|author1=Joanne McEvoy|author2=Brendan O'Leary|title=Power Sharing in Deeply Divided Places|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JMWVFmc6VF0C&pg=PA267|date=2 May 2013|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=978-0-8122-4501-1|page=267))</ref> and an [[independence referendum]] from BiH has been proposed in RS.<ref name="Merdzanovic2015">((cite book|author=Adis Merdzanovic|title=Democracy by Decree: Prospects and Limits of Imposed Consociational Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OYgcCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA328|date=1 August 2015|publisher=ibidem|isbn=978-3-8382-6792-0|pages=328–))</ref> The [[2006 Montenegrin independence referendum]] and [[2008_Kosovo_declaration_of_independence|Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence]] have raised the possibility of a referendum and unification with [[Serbia]].((sfn|Trbovich|2008|p=)) In 2015, after a judicial and police crisis, the governing [[Alliance of Independent Social Democrats]] said that it would hold an independence referendum in 2018 if RS's autonomy was not preserved. 

==Background==
 ((see also|Partition of Bosnia and Herzegovina|Peace plans proposed before and during the Bosnian War)) [[File:Serbia_in_the_Yugoslav_Wars.png|thumb|alt=Color-coded map of the former Yugoslavia|Serb control during the Yugoslav Wars]]
During the [[Yugoslav Wars]], the aim of Republika Srpska (a Serb-controlled territory in the [[Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina]]) was unification with the rest of what were considered Serb lands — the [[Republic of Serbian Krajina]] (RSK, in Croatia), [[Republic of Serbia (1992–2006)|Republic of Serbia]] and [[Republic of Montenegro (1992–2006)|Republic of Montenegro]] – in the [[Serbia and Montenegro|Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]]).<ref name="Cook2014">((cite book|author=Bernard A. Cook|title=Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kV-2AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT331|date=27 January 2014|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-135-17939-7|pages=331–))</ref> The United Serb Republic was a project to unify of RS and RSK before annexation by the "mother-state of [[Serbia]]".<ref>((cite journal | last = Međimorec | first = Miroslav | title = The Medak Pocket | journal = National Security and the Future | volume = 3| number = 3–4 | publisher = St. George Association | location = Zagreb | year = 2002 | url = http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=toc&id_broj=1672&lang=en|pages=29–30))</ref>

The Serb and Croat political leadership agreed on a partition of BiH with the 1991 [[Milošević–Tuđman Karađorđevo meeting]] and the 1992 [[Graz agreement]], leading to a tripartite division of the country.<ref>((cite book|author1=Reneo Lukic|author2=Allen Lynch|title=Europe from the Balkans to the Urals: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WPhhLfp8huIC|year=1996|publisher=SIPRI|isbn=978-0-19-829200-5|pages=209–211))</ref> Serb-Croat negotiations also resulted in the Croat forces turning against the [[Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnian Army]] in the [[Croat–Bosniak War]] (1992&ndash;1994).<ref>((cite book|author=Laura Silber|title=Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation|url=https://archive.org/details/yugoslaviadeatho00silb|url-access=registration|date=1 January 1997|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=978-0-14-026263-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/yugoslaviadeatho00silb/page/185 185]))</ref> A [[Proposed Bosniak republic|Bosniak republic]] was part of the proposed Graz agreement.<ref>((cite news | last = Blaine | first = Harden | title = Warring Factions Agree on Plan to Divide up Former Yugoslavia | newspaper = The Washington Post | date = 1992-05-08 | url = http://tech.mit.edu/V112/N26/yugoslavia.26w.html|access-date=2009-08-11))</ref> The November–December 1995 Dayton Agreement ended the war and created the [[federal republic]] of Bosnia and Herzegovina, consisting of the Bosniak and Croat-inhabited [[Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina]] (FBiH) and the Serb-inhabited Republika Srpska. According to Niels van Willigen, "Whereas the Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Serbs could identify themselves with Croatia or Serbia respectively, the absence of a Bosniak state made the Bosniaks firmly committed to Bosnia as a single political entity."<ref name="Willigen2013">((cite book|author=Niels van Willigen|title=Peacebuilding and International Administration: The Cases of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mt1fF1RbgngC&pg=PP52|date=18 July 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-11725-3|pages=52–))</ref>

==History==
===((anchor|Post-war))After the war===
On 12 September 1996, Republika Srpska president [[Biljana Plavšić]] called for its secession and unification with the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; since that contravened the Dayton Agreement, however, the [[Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe]] compelled her to retract her recommendation.<ref name="BideleuxJeffries2007">((cite book|author1=Robert Bideleux|author2=Ian Jeffries|title=The Balkans: A Post-Communist History|url=https://archive.org/details/balkanspostcommu0000bide|url-access=registration|date=24 January 2007|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-58328-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/balkanspostcommu0000bide/page/361 361]–))</ref>

===2000s===
Although the Bosnian Serbs were viewed as "anti-Dayton" shortly after the war, they have been staunch supporters of the Dayton Agreement and RS preservation since 2000.((sfn|Bose|2002)) The Bosniak [[Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina]] has called for the abolition of RS.((sfn|Bose|2002)) In 2003, Aleksandar Jokic wrote that an international policy partitioning [[Kosovo]] and joining Republika Srpska with [[Serbia and Montenegro]] offered "long-term security and stability for the region".<ref name="Jokic2003">((cite book|author=Aleksandar Jokic|title=Lessons of Kosovo: The Dangers of Humanitarian Intervention|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NQJJ_BScMx0C&pg=PA180|date=26 February 2003|publisher=Broadview Press|isbn=978-1-55111-545-0|pages=180–))</ref>

On 15 June 2006, a demonstration was held in [[Banja Luka]] supporting a Republika Srpska [[independence referendum]] if Kosovo became independent. The following year, an [[open letter]] demanding an independence referendum was presented to the [[National Assembly (Republika Srpska)|Republika Srpska National Assembly]].<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.plebiscitrs.org/sajt/?pismo=lat&id_jezik=1#.VzLJ0OQnO70|title=Open Letter on the Announcement by the Kosovo Parliament to Declare Independence|language=sr|access-date=26 September 2019))</ref> In 2007, the Bosniak and Bosnian Croat members of the [[Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina]] called for the abolition of their ethnic entities.<ref>((cite web|title=Bosnian Presidency members call for abolition of entities|publisher=Balkan Insight|date=2007|url=http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/bosnian-presidency-members-call-for-abolition-of-entities))</ref> In 2007, according to [[Walid Phares]], Republika Srpska should have the same status as Kosovo.<ref>((cite web|title=Trump adviser advocated for Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina|publisher=Telegraf|date=November 2016|url=http://www.telegraf.rs/english/2461898-if-kosovo-can-be-independent-so-can-republika-srpska-trump-adviser-advocated-for-serbs-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina))</ref>
[[File:Protesti u BL4.jpg|thumb|alt=Group of people, flags and a cameraman|Banja Luka protest against Kosovo's declaration of independence, 27 March 2008. The banner reads, "The people say 'Yes, [[Kosovo is Serbia]]. And let [Republika] Srpska become independent(('")).]]
Since [[2008 Kosovo declaration of independence|Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence]], Bosnian Serb nationalists have called for [[Milorad Dodik]] to keep his promise to hold a referendum. Dodik has since said that he would hold a referendum only if Republika Srpska's autonomy is threatened.<ref>((cite news|url=http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/8040/|title=Bosnia's Dodik Calms Secession Fears|publisher=Balkan Insight Reporting Network| work=[[Balkan Insight]] (Bosnia)|date=2008-02-20|access-date=2008-02-20 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080226175832/http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/8040/|archive-date = 2008-02-26))</ref> Bosnian Serb lawmakers passed a resolution on 21 February 2008 calling for an independence referendum if a majority of UN members, especially members of the [[European Union]] (EU), recognise Kosovo's declaration of independence.<ref>((cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL22859447|title=Bosnian Serbs threaten secession over Kosovo|publisher=Reuters|location=New York City|date=2008-02-22|access-date=2008-02-22))</ref> After the resolution was passed, the U.S. cut aid to the [[Alliance of Independent Social Democrats]] (SNSD) and the resolution was condemned by the EU.<ref>((cite news|url=http://www.pr-inside.com/u-s-cuts-aid-to-main-bosnian-r469759.htm |title=U.S. cuts aid to main Bosnian Serb party |publisher=PR-inside |date=2008-03-04 |access-date=2008-03-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210040845/http://www.pr-inside.com/u-s-cuts-aid-to-main-bosnian-r469759.htm |archive-date=February 10, 2012 ))</ref> According to the [[Peace Implementation Council]] (PIC) overseeing [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], the country's entities have no right to secede.<ref>((cite news|url=http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/8374/|title=Bosnia Serb PM Dismisses US Aid Cuts|publisher=Balkan Insight Reporting Network|work=[[Balkan Insight]] (Bosnia)|date=2008-03-05|access-date=2008-03-09 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080307045956/http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/8374/|archive-date = 2008-03-07))</ref> [[High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina]] [[Miroslav Lajčák]] said that RS has "absolutely no right" to secede, and he would use his [[High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina#The "Bonn Powers" of the OHR|Bonn Powers]] "if there are threats to peace and stability" or to the Dayton peace agreement:<ref>((cite news|url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gZyDa4Ekj3nlTBcwlnH93R_2pTOQ|title=Major powers reject Bosnian Serb secession calls|publisher=[[Agence France-Presse]] (Paris)|date=2008-02-27|access-date=2008-03-09|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080303051918/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gZyDa4Ekj3nlTBcwlnH93R_2pTOQ|archive-date=2008-03-03))</ref> "Republika Srpska does not have the right to secede from BiH, at the same time no one can unilaterally abolish Republika Srpska."<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.eusrbih.eu/media/pr/1/?cid=2301,1,1 |work=EUSR / OHR  |date=2008-01-30 |access-date=2009-01-07 |title=Existence of Bosnia and Herzegovina cannot be questioned))</ref> Dodik said in an interview that if most countries recognise Kosovo's self-proclaimed independence, this would legitimise the right to secession: "We do not see a single reason why we should not be granted the right to [[self-determination]], the right envisaged in international conventions."<ref>((cite news|title=Dodik insists RS has right to self-determination|publisher=B92|date=2008-03-09|access-date=2008-03-09|url=http://www.b92.net/eng/news/region-article.php?yyyy=2008&mm=03&dd=09&nav_id=48307|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080413235454/http://www.b92.net/eng/news/region-article.php?yyyy=2008&mm=03&dd=09&nav_id=48307|archive-date=2008-04-13))</ref> Serbian President [[Boris Tadić]] said that Serbia does not support a breakup of Bosnia and Herzegovina and, as a guarantor of the Dayton Agreement which brought peace to Bosnia, supports [[Bosnia (region)|Bosnia's]] territorial integrity.<ref>((cite web|title=Policy of peace Serbia's goal – Tadić|publisher=B92|date=2008|url=http://www.b92.net/eng/news/in_focus.php?id=251&start=0&nav_id=45847))</ref>

===2010s===
((See also|Referendums in Republika Srpska))
[[File:Milorad Dodik.jpg|thumb|alt=Milorad Dodik speaking at a podium and projected on a background screen|[[Milorad Dodik]] in 2010]]
According to a November 2010 poll of [[Bosnian Serbs]] by the [[Brussels]]-based Gallup Balkan Monitor, 88 percent would support a referendum on Republika Srpska's independence from Bosnia and Herzegovina.<ref name="Srpska">((cite news|url=http://www.danas.rs/danasrs/svet/region/za_nezavisnu_rs_88_odsto_gradjana.9.html?news_id=204069 |title=Za nezavisnu RS 88 odsto građana -- poll|publisher=Gallup Balkan Monitor|date=2010-11-19))</ref> RS proposed a 2011 referendum on possibly leaving Bosnian institutions, which was defused by the EU.<ref>((cite web|title=Bosnia: What Does Republika Srpska Want?|publisher=Crisis Group|date=2011|url=http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/regions/europe/balkans/bosnia-herzegovina/214-bosnia-what-does-republika-srpska-want.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160520030720/http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/regions/europe/balkans/bosnia-herzegovina/214-bosnia-what-does-republika-srpska-want.aspx|archive-date=2016-05-20))</ref>

In 2012, Dodik predicted Republika Srpska's independence.<ref>((cite web|title=Dodik: Republika Srpska Will Be Independent|publisher=Balkan Insight|date=2012|url=http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/dodik-republika-srpska-will-be-independent))</ref> In 2013, there were discussions on the matter.<ref>((cite web|title=Bosnian Serb Leaders Still Talking Secession|work=Institute for War and Peace Reporting|date=2013|url=https://iwpr.net/global-voices/bosnian-serb-leaders-still-talking-secession))</ref> Former [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] [[Balkans]] chief Steven Meyer said in 2013 and 2014 that he believed that Republika Srpska would become independent in time, that Bosnia and Herzegovina exists only on paper, and the people should decide for themselves.<ref>((cite web|title=Meyer: Srpska bi mogla postati dio Srbije|publisher=Bljesak|url=http://www.bljesak.info/rubrika/vijesti/clanak/meyer-srpska-bi-mogla-postati-dio-srbije/80242/ispis)); ((cite web|title=BIH je izmisljena drzava|date=10 April 2013 |publisher=Hercegovina|url=http://www.hercegovina.info/vijesti/vijesti/politika/bih-je-izmisljena-drzava))</ref> 

The [[Alliance of Independent Social Democrats]] (SNSD), the largest Serb party in Bosnia and Herzegovina, adopted an April 2015 resolution that the RS assembly would call a 2018 referendum to break from the FBiH if RS could not increase its autonomy.<ref>((cite web|title=Biggest Serb party in Bosnia threatens 2018 secession|publisher=Reuters|date=25 April 2015|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bosnia-serbs-secession-idUSKBN0NG0NB20150425))</ref> Bosnian legal experts said that although the referendum (on the state court and prosecution) "would not weaken the state judiciary", it "would destabilise the country".<ref>((cite web|title=Bosnian Serb Referendum 'Can't Destroy State Judiciary'|publisher=Balkan Insight|date=1 February 2016|url=http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/no-legal-consequences-of-referendum-in-republika-srpska-02-01-2016))</ref> The [[Party of Democratic Action]] (SDA), Bosnia's largest party, adopted a May 2015 resolution in which the country would be reorganized into five regions (without RS).<ref>((cite web|title=Dodik: Sramna rezolucija, SDA trazi ukidanje Republike Srpske|publisher=Srbija Danas|date=27 May 2015|url=http://www.srbijadanas.com/clanak/dodik-sramna-rezolucija-sda-trazi-ukidanje-republike-srpske-27-05-2015))</ref> Milorad Dodik said in November 2015 that if the [[Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina]] was not reformed as he wished, the country was in danger.<ref>((cite web|title=Serb Leader Warns Bosnia Could Break Up|publisher=[[Balkan Insight]]|date=2 December 2015|url=http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/bosnian-serb-leader-warns-of-breakup-of-bosnia-12-02-2015))</ref>

''[[Pravda]]'' reported in January 2016 that Dodik said that American lobbyists asked for ((dollarsign|USD|lk=on))1 billion in return for independence in 10 to 15 years.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.pravda.rs/2016/01/12/dodik-otkriva-amerikanci-su-mi-trazili-milijardu-dolara-za-nezavisnost-republike-srpske/|title=ДОДИК ОТКРИВА: Американци су ми тражили милијарду долара за независност Републике Српске!|date=12 January 2016|work=Pravda))</ref> Analysts at [[Mic (media company)|Mic]] said that RS would become independent by 2025.<ref>((cite web|title=Republika Srpska nezavisna do 2025. godine?!|date=12 August 2013 |publisher=Telegraf|url=http://www.telegraf.rs/vesti/802846-americki-portal-republika-srpska-nezavisna-do-2025-godine))</ref> According to a [[BMI Research]] analysis, "Bosnia's Serbian entity, Republika Srpska (RS), is unlikely to achieve formal independence over the next five years, owing to widespread opposition on the part of the EU and US, which do not wish to see a redrawing of Balkan borders. RS could conceivably declare independence regardless, but it would risk being diplomatically and economically isolated."<ref>((cite web|title=Republika Srpska: How Likely Is Independence?|publisher=BMI Research|url=http://www.bmiresearch.com/news-and-views/republika-srpska-how-likely-is-independence))</ref> In February 2016, the [[Referendums in Republika Srpska#2016 referendum on the authority of the BiH State Court|RS court referendum]] was indefinitely postponed.<ref>((cite web|title=Bosnian Serb leader puts controversial referendum on hold|publisher=Balkan Insight|date=9 February 2016|url=http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/bosnian-serb-leader-puts-controversial-referendum-on-hold--02-09-2016))</ref> US Balkan analyst [[Daniel Serwer]] said in May 2015 that RS would never become independent.<ref>((cite web|title=U.S. analyst tells Dodik "RS will never be independent"|date=17 May 2016|publisher=B92|url=http://www.b92.net/eng/news/region.php?yyyy=2016&mm=05&dd=17&nav_id=98028))</ref> On 31 May of that year, Dodik said that RS was in danger of disappearing.<ref>((cite web|title=Dodik: Republika Srpska nije nikada bila u opasnosti da nestane kao sada|date=30 May 2023 |publisher=Kurir|url=http://www.kurir.rs/region/bosna-i-hercegovina/dodik-republika-srpska-nije-nikada-bila-u-opasnosti-da-nestane-kao-sada-clanak-2288863))</ref>

In December 2016, High Representative [[Valentin Inzko]] said that "separatism" (an RS independence referendum) would force international "intervention".<ref>((cite news|title=Incko preti umesto da miri|publisher=Novosti|url=http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/naslovna/republika_srpska/aktuelno.655.html:639964-Incko-preti-umesto-da-miri))</ref> According to Inzko, the international community would never recognize an independent RS; although he had the power to replace Dodik, those "times have passed. Today we need domestic solutions and responsibility".<ref>((cite news|title=Incko: Imam ovlašćenja da smenim Dodika, ali ...|publisher=B92|url=http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2016&mm=12&dd=22&nav_category=167&nav_id=1212831))</ref>

In May 2017, Steven Meyer (considering the possible creation of [[Greater Albania]]) said that Bosnia and Herzegovina was "far from a united country" and predicted a deteriorating relationship with RS.<ref>((cite web |title=Ex CIA chief on Balkans Steven Meyer: Border changes may happen in Kosovo and Macedonia |url=https://www.ocnal.com/2017/05/ex-cia-chief-on-balkans-steven-meyer.html |website=Oculus News |date=28 May 2017 |access-date=26 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181115195255/http://www.ocnal.com/2017/05/ex-cia-chief-on-balkans-steven-meyer.html |archive-date=15 November 2018|url-status=live))</ref> In July, he reiterated that "it remains a country in name only; a fiction that is real only in the minds of outdated, mostly mid-level American—and some European—diplomats."<ref>((cite web|title=Steven E. Meyer: Where is the Leadership in the Balkans?|publisher=Nedeljnik|date=July 2017|url=http://www.nedeljnik.rs/nedeljnik/portalnews/steven-e-meyer-where-is-the-leadership-in-the-balkans/cq274877|access-date=2017-12-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181114105203/http://www.nedeljnik.rs/nedeljnik/portalnews/steven-e-meyer-where-is-the-leadership-in-the-balkans/cq274877|archive-date=2018-11-14|url-status=dead))</ref>

In June<ref>((cite web|title=Bosnia's Serb Republic leader: No breakaway vote next year|publisher=Politico|date=June 2017|url=https://www.politico.eu/article/milorad-dodik-bosnia-serb-republic-serbia-leader-no-breakaway-vote-next-year/))</ref> and September 2017, Dodik said that plans for a 2018 independence referendum had been dropped.<ref>((cite web|title=Dodik Drops Plans For Holding 2018 Republika Srpska Independence Referendum|publisher=Beta|date=September 2017|url=https://beta.rs/en/72751-dodik-drops-plans-for-holding-2018-republika-srpska-independence-referendum))</ref>

Presidency member [[Bakir Izetbegović]] threatened war in November of that year if Republika Srpska opted for independence, saying that Bosnia and Herzegovina should recognize the independence of Kosovo.<ref>((cite web|title=Bosnian Serbs Threaten Walkout Over Izetbegovic Statement|date=14 November 2017|publisher=Balkan Insight|url=http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/serbs-threate-abandoning-bosnian-institutions-over-izetbegovic-statement-11-14-2017))</ref> On 22 November 2017, the issue was examined on  [[RTV BN]]'s ''[[Globalno]]''.<ref>((cite web|title=Da li je moguća nezavisnost RS?|publisher=RTV BN|url=https://www.rtvbn.com/3886764/da-li-je-moguca-nezavisnost-rs))</ref>

==Polls==
((Refimprove section|date=April 2019))
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Date
! Source
! Sample
! In favour
! Against
|-
|15–21 June 2007
|
|1,699 (992 from RS, 707 from FBiH)
|((Yes2|'''54%'''))
|46 %
|-
|November 2010
|Gallup Balkan Monitor<ref name="Srpska"/>
|Bosnian Serbs
|((Yes2|'''88%'''))
|12 %
|-
|17–20 July 2015
|Centar za društvena istraživanja i analize<ref>((cite web|title=Anketa: Više od polovine ispitanika za samostalnost RS, vole Dodika, a vjeruju crkvi|publisher=Nezavisne|date=2015|url=http://www.nezavisne.com/novosti/bih/Anketa-Vise-od-polovine-ispitanika-za-samostalnost-RS-vole-Dodika-a-vjeruju-crkvi/319950))</ref>
|1,414 (RS)
|((Yes2|'''53.54%'''))
|15.34%
|}

==See also==
*[[Republika Srpska–Serbia relations]]
*[[Proposed Bosniak republic]]
*[[Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia]]
*[[Kosovo independence precedent]]
*[[Partition of Kosovo]]
*[[Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation]]
*[[Proposed Croat federal unit in Bosnia and Herzegovina]]
*[[Greater Serbia]]

==References==
((reflist|2))

==Further reading==
*((cite book|last=Bose|first=Sumantra|title=Bosnia After Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O2nGNMKGYJsC&pg=PA26|year=2002|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-515848-9|pages=26–))
*((cite book|author1=Rajko Kuzmanović|author2=Dragoljub Mirjanić|title=The Republic of Srpska - Tenth Years of the Dayton Peace Agreement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KAYWAQAAIAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska|isbn=978-99938-631-9-9))
*((cite book|last=Trbovich|first=Ana S.|title=A Legal Geography of Yugoslavia's Disintegration|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ojur7dVoxIcC&pg=PA381|year=2008|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-533343-5|pages=381–))

==External links==
*((cite web|title=Is War About to Break Out in the Balkans?|date=26 October 2015 |publisher=Foreign Policy|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/10/26/war-break-out-balkans-bosnia-republika-srpska-dayton/))
*((cite web|title=Is Republika Srpska About to Be the Next Crimea?|date=26 March 2014 |url=https://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/secession-serbia-bosnia-hrzegovina))
*((cite web|title=The False Threat of Secession in Bosnia|date=4 May 2016 |publisher=Balkan Insight|url=http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/the-false-threat-of-secession-in-bosnia-05-02-2016))

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