The daily explained that there was no legal basis for such a move.
Commenting on an article which The Sunday Times recently published reporting that "British and American officials are backing a plan that would allow Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president being tried for war crimes, to serve his expected jail sentence in Russia", the Bosnian daily recalls that the Hague-based UN tribunal transfers its convicts to serve jail sentences in ten countries which have signed agreements with the United Nations regulating this matter.
Such agreements have been signed by Norway, Sweden, Finland, Spain, Italy, Austria, France, Denmark, Germany and Great Britain.
The Russian Federation has not signed such an agreement although it is not ruled out that Moscow may sign it before the UN court passes a final verdict in the Milosevic case.
The spokesman for the Russian Embassy in Sarajevo, Igor Borbunov, told Oslobodjenje that for the time being there were no indications that something like that could happen.
The Bosnian Muslim (Bosniak) officer for liaison with the ICTY, Amir Ahmic, has said that he does not believe that negotiations on Milosevic's transfer to Russia are under way, particularly in the light of the fact that the trial of Milosevic, accused of war crimes in Croatia and Kosovo and genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina, is far from completion.
"Speculations about where he would serve his sentence prejudge the tribunal's verdict as well as Milosevic's guilt. Of course, we all hope that the ICTY will find him guilty, but Bosnia-Herzegovina would like to see him being tried in a fair manner," Ahmic said.