{"id":"BIH-033","notes":"CROSS-REGIONAL COORDINATION SIGNAL: April 3 2024 — RS publishes revised draft same day Georgia reintroduces its law. April 2 2024 — Kyrgyzstan signs similar law. This is documented simultaneous regional activation of Russian-playbook foreign agent legislation. The regional coordination is analytically important for third-country expansion of Playbook.","country":"Bosnia and Herzegovina (Republika Srpska)","sources":[{"url":null,"citation":"ECNL April 11 2024 analysis (https://ecnl.org/publications/republika-srpska-analysis-foreign-agent-law); Human Rights House Foundation April 9 2024; RFE/RL May 29 2024 (context)"}],"summary":"RS Ministry of Justice publishes revised and strengthened version of foreign agent law draft on April 3, 2024. New draft contains further negative changes relative to September 2023 first reading — harsher sanctions, expanded scope. Published same day (April 3) as Georgian Parliament reintroduces its own foreign influence law — documented regional coordination of foreign agent legislative push across South Caucasus, Western Balkans, and Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan signs similar law April 2). Human Rights House Foundation: \"Using Russia's authoritarian playbook against civil society has become a wider regional trend, simultaneously unfolding in the South Caucasus, Western Balkans and Central Asia.\" Draft submitted to National Assembly March 28 2024 (just before legal deadline). ECNL analysis: draft violates BiH human rights commitments, stigmatizes civil society, duplicates existing regulations, contradicts EU standards and BiH accession aspirations. No minimum threshold on foreign funding — even smallest donation requires registration as \"agent of foreign influence.\"","tactics":[{"code":"TC-18","role":"primary","label":"Legislative Operationalization","needs_review":false},{"code":"TC-23","role":"secondary","label":"Foreign Agent Legislation","needs_review":false}],"version":1,"channels":["Official/Regulatory"],"entities":[{"id":747,"name":"RS Ministry of Justice; Milorad Dodik; Miloš Bukejlović (Deputy PM/Justice Minister)","role":"actor","entity_type":"Government Official"},{"id":748,"name":"Civil society sector; NGOs receiving foreign funding","role":"target","entity_type":"Sector"}],"date_text":"03/04/2024","created_at":"2026-09-24T17:50:55.358311+00:00","escalation":2,"harm_track":"Track 1 — Legal/Administrative","narratives":[{"code":"NF-01","role":"primary","label":"Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence","needs_review":false},{"code":"NF-09","role":"secondary","label":"Political Interference","needs_review":false}],"report_ids":[],"signal_ids":["SIG-BIH-033"],"updated_at":"2026-09-24T17:50:55.358311+00:00","occurred_on":"2024-04-03","campaign_ids":["BIH-CAMP-004"],"enabler_type":"","response_ids":["BIH-034"],"trigger_type":"TR-01: External Political Event","campaign_phase":"Phase 2: Media Execution","civic_response":"ECNL analysis April 11 2024; Human Rights House Foundation joint statement April 9 2024; OSCE warns bill contradicts RS and BiH constitutions | Outcome (see Civic Responses BIH-034): RS Government withdrew the law from the Assembly agenda on 28 May 2024 under international pressure; Dodik announced its reintroduction the same day.","date_precision":"day","enabler_status":"","campaigns_served":[],"consequence_category":"Legal/Administrative","institutional_consequence":"Strengthened draft submitted — expanded sanctions and scope; regional coordination with Georgia/Kyrgyzstan documented"}