The

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of Republika Srpska with the description: the

flag of Republika Srpska The flag of Republika Srpska within Bosnia and Herzegovina was adopted on 24 November 1992. The flag is a rectangular tricolor with three equal horizontal bands of red, blue and white.Cyrillic letters "РС" ("RS"), the red-blue-white tricolor are in the center of the seal, twisted with the golden Oak leaves, a traditional pre-Christian symbol sacred to most Slavs. On the edge of the seal there is an inscription ''Republika Srpska'' (in Cyrillic and

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). The open crown of Kotromanić is shown in the bottom of the seal and the seal itself is topped with a heraldic royal crown.

Former coat of arms

The former coat of arms of Republika Srpska showed, on a red shield, over headed by the Nemanjić crown, a bicephalic silver eagle in take off, armed with gold, with golden tongue and legs, the chest covered by a red shield with the Serbian cross, a silver cross with four

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s. File:Former COA Republika Srpska.svg, Former coat of arms of Republika Srpska (1992-2007) File:Proposal coat of arms of Republika Srpska.png, Unconstitutional coat of arms of Republika Srpska

Decision of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina

On 12 April 2004,

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, then Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, filed a request with the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the review of constitutionality of Articles 1 and 2 of the Law on the Coat of Arms and Flag of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (''Official Gazette of Federation of BiH No. 21/96 and 26/96''), Articles 1, 2 and 3 of the Constitutional Law on the Flag, Coat of Arms and Anthem of the Republika Srpska (''Official Gazette of the Republika Srpska No. 19/92''), Articles 2 and 3 of the Law on the Use of Flag, Coat of Arms and Anthem (''Official Gazette of the Republika Srpska No. 4/93'') and Articles 1 and 2 of the Law on the Family Patron-Saint’s Days and Church Holidays of the Republika Srpska (''Official Gazette of Republika Srpska No. 19/92''). On 2 December 2004 the applicant submitted a supplement to the request. Two partial decisions were made in 2006, when the Court found that the

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and flag of the Federation of B&H, and

, anthem, family patron-saint days and church holidays of Republika Srpska were unconstitutional. In its decision, among other things, the Court stated: The formal name of the item is ''U-4/04'', but it is widely known as "Decision on the insignia of entities" (Bosnian: ''Odluka o obilježjima entiteta''), since its merritum was about the symbols of entities. The Court has ordered the

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and the National Assembly of Republika Srpska to bring the contested legal documents in line with the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina within six months from the publishing date of its decision in the ''Official Gazette of Bosnia and Herzegovina''. Since the harmonisation was not done in that granted time-limit, that Court has, on January 27, 2007, adopted the Ruling on failure to enforce in which it established that the contested articles of the interpreted legal documents shall cease to be in force as of the date following the publishing date of the Ruling in ''Official Gazette of Bosnia and Herzegovina''. On June 16, 2007, the Government of Republika Srpska had adopted the provisional emblem of Republika Srpska, until it adopted the new Coat of Arms of Republika Srpska. It had also decided to use the melody of its former anthem " Bože pravde" as its new intermezzo anthem, but the Constitutional Court of Republika Srpska has declared such use of melody as unconstitutional as well, so the new anthem, " Moja Republika" was adopted. Both the new anthem (in relation to words ''moja zemlja'' - "my land") and new coat of arms have been contested by Bosniak members of National Assembly of Republika Srpska in front of the Constitutional Court of Republika Srpska. The Court declared the coat of arms to be unconstitutional since it did not represent Bosniaks in any way, while it rejected the claim in relation to the anthem."Novim grbom Republike Srpske povrijeđen vitalni nacionalni interes Bošnjaka"
December 22, 2008. Čelinac.eu. Retrieved on March 6, 2009.

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{{Republika Srpska Culture of Republika Srpska

Republika Srpska Republika Srpska ( sr-Cyrl, Република Српска, lit=Serb Republic, also known as Republic of Srpska, ) is one of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is locat ...

Coat of arms of Republika Srpska

Former coat of arms

Decision of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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