Radovan Karadzic has been sentenced to 40 years of imprisonment at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) here Thursday.
Russia on Wednesday vetoed a draft UN Security Council resolution commemorating the 20th anniversary of the slaughter of 8,000 Bosnian Serb Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, a UN "safe area," citing the term "genocide" used in the document in describing the mass slaying as the reason for doing so.