Memorandum on cooperation between South Ossetia and Republika Srpska Photo: Government of RS

There is a Russian saying, “С кем поведешься, от того и наберешься”, which roughly means that all things good and bad tend to rub off the company you keep.

By rolling out the red carpet to the Russia-backed leader of occupied South Ossetia, Anatoly Bibilov, Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik is mixing in bad company.

What’s worse, he does this with the Kremlin’s blessing and facilitation. This is not good news for Dodik, the Republika Srpska or the whole region.

Questioned about Georgia’s diplomatic protest over the visit, the RS president said: “So what?”