Folks seem to be having issues elsewhere, too. Wonder what they all have in common? Under U.S. pressure, the leader of Bosnia's autonomous Serb Republic on Friday submitted to questioning by prosecutors, after defying a summons for three months, for holding a referendum in violation of a Constitutional Court ruling. The country's chief prosecutor called in Milorad Dodik in September but he refused to come to the Bosnian capital, citing security concerns. Dodik had said that he would settle for questioning only on the territory of the Serb Republic. But on Friday, he was questioned in Sarajevo as a suspect in the case, the prosecutor's office said in a short statement. Bosnia's Serb Republic held a referendum in September on a national holiday despite a ruling by the Constitutional Court that it discriminated against the region's non-Serbs. The court banned the plebiscite. Dodik told the Bosnian Serb news agency Srna he decided to answer the summons after rejecting two previous calls, but criticised the investigation as politically fabricated. He said the prosecutors were under influence of the international community and Muslim Bosniaks, from the country's other region. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-bosnia-politics-idUSKBN14J1K7?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews
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