Bosnian Serb nationalist leader Milorad Dodik was sentenced to one year in prison on Wednesday and ordered to step down from his role as president of the country's Serb-dominated region for six years for defying orders of an international peace envoy.

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik was sentenced Wednesday to a year in prison in a landmark trial for defying rulings made by an international envoy charged with overseeing the country's peace accords.

Milorad Dodik’s decades-long disruptive reign in Bosnia may be over as a top court bans him from politics and sentences him to prison.

Bosnia is on edge ahead of a court verdict for Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, who is accused of defying the international envoy who oversees peace accords that ended the country's 1990s war. "Your verdict will determine the future of Bosnia,

Milorad Dodik has dominated Bosnia's Serb-majority region since 2006, holding a range of offices including a seat in the fractured Balkan country's tripartite presidency. During his four years as Bosnia's tripartite presidency,

Bosnia's state court on Wednesday convicted Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik for defying orders of an international peace envoy and sentenced him to one year in prison, the court said in a statement.

But the Bosnian-Serb leader Milorad Dodik made light of the verdict at the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The president of the country's majority-Serb Republika Srpska region told supporters at a rally in the regional capital Banja Luka there was "no reason to worry".

Herzegovina has sentenced Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik in absentia to one year in prison for defying the country’s top international overseer, barring him from office for six years.