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President of Republika Srpska (RS) Milorad Dodik recently called a female journalist of TV N1 a "cow". The Association of Journalists of Serbia reacted and called on Dodik to apologise. Of course, he refused. Immediately afterwards, his daughter Gorica Dodik spoke up and said she agreed that he should apologise, "but to the cows, because he had insulted them by comparing the 'journalist' to them".
Daddy's daughter is always ready to defend him, especially online.
Together with her brother Igor, another of their father's confidants, they were put on the US "blacklist", where Dodik has been for quite some time.
The Americans believe that since 2021, Dodik has increased his son and daughter's involvement in political and business activities within RS, raising concerns that RS is becoming more of a family business than a political entity within BiH.
Gorica Dodik "thanked" the US, stating that "nowadays there is no greater privilege than being blacklisted".
"This is proof that we are not aggressors and criminals like you. Your hands are bloodied to the elbows. Whoever supports you is complicit in your monstrous crimes around the world," she wrote on the social network X.
Recently, she announced that she was closing the Serbian House Foundation, which she founded, because the bank closed the foundation's account due to US sanctions.
Radio Free Europe /FREE/ revealed that Igor Dodik and his sister Gorica own three fruit farming companies and a restaurant. The total value of these companies is about 7.5 million euros. Gorica Dodik is the owner of the company "Agro Voce" from Laktash, which deals with fruit cultivation and is worth EUR 1.25 million. She was a co-owner of the Green Line pharmacy with Nina Skrbic, daughter of former RS Health Minister Ranko Skrbic. This company has been liquidated, writes RSE.
Igor and Gorica Dodik are also co-owners of the company Global Liberty, whose main activity is also horticulture and is worth about 60,000 euros. Gorica Dodik and Igor's wife, Ivana Dodik, are co-owners of the Agape restaurant in the Boska department store in Banja Luka. Gorica's husband, Pavle Ćorović, owns the company Agro Destil, worth about EUR 1.13 million, with its main business being distilling alcohol. In May 2023, the company will open its doors to the public. Čorović also registered the company Monte Block, whose main activity is the construction of buildings.
Last year, Gorica got into a dispute with Nebojša Krstic on the then Twitter (X). The occasion was Krstic's post that Dodik is "a Russian project that prevents Serbia from strengthening and protecting its interests".
Two years ago, Gorica Dodik, the Informer newspaper and its owner Dragan Vucicevic clashed bitterly on the social network over the participation of Serbian bouncers in the elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Gorica shared a video on BN TV claiming that "filmed thugs" were brought in from Serbia for the general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina to, in her view, create unrest and be presented as "Dodics" (Dodik's people). A little later, the Informer portal published an article entitled "Scandalous! Dodik, through his son's portal, treacherously attacks the President of Serbia". Gorica Dodik then shared the Informer article saying, "Are you people normal? After the rapist interview, Informer continues to rape people with lies."
After supporting convicted war criminal and Bosnian Serb leader Ratko Mladic on Twitter, the social network removed her post.
Mladic was sentenced to life in prison in The Hague for war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, but Gorica Dodik tweeted, "Long live the Republika Srpska! Long live Ratko Mladić! Long live all the heroes of the army of Republika Srpska!".
In the summer of 1995, in the protected enclave of Srebrenica, Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Mladic massacred over 9 000 Bosnian Muslims in a matter of hours. So far, the bodies of nearly 8 800 of them have been identified and buried in Potocari near Srebrenica.
Gorica graduated from the high school of economics in Banja Luka and then studied economics in Cyprus. She became director of a marketing agency and sports radio "Igokea" and was head of the cabinet of the then Minister of Economic Relations with Foreign Countries, Zeljka Cvijanovic, while her father was Prime Minister of RS. She is married to Pavle Čorović and they have four children. /BGNES
