By bne IntelliNews The Palace of the Republic in Banja Luka, administrative capital of Bosnia & Herzegovina’s Serb entity, will be lit up in the colours of the Russian flag this evening as the Bosnian Serb leadership welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin’s entirely expected re-election this weekend. Putin declared a sweeping victory even before the official results were announced, after exit polls indicated he had won the Russian presidential election with 87% of the vote. The election has been widely condemned by Western politicians and diplomats as neither free nor fair, and was marked b…