{"id":60153,"date":"2015-06-29T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=60153"},"modified":"2015-06-24T13:17:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T12:17:21","slug":"nikolai-starikov-why-putin-does-not-recognize-donetsk-and-lugansk-republics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/06\/nikolai-starikov-why-putin-does-not-recognize-donetsk-and-lugansk-republics\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikolai Starikov: Why Putin Does Not Recognize Donetsk and Lugansk Republics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jun 13, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rising politician, leader of the Great Patriotic Party of Russia and writer Nikolai Starikov\u2019s explanation and insights about Russia annexing or recognizing Donetsk People&#8217;s Republic and Luhansk People&#8217;s Republic. It would not be in Russia&#8217;s best national and geopolitical interest; they must stay within Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Translation to English and German courtesy of Tatzhit Mihailovich <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCLpcwqpYPkzqzjgp9_ovpTw\" >https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCLpc&#8230;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wd1_o9pyehE<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising politician, leader of the Great Patriotic Party of Russia and writer Nikolai Starikov\u2019s explanation and insights about Russia annexing or recognizing Donetsk People&#8217;s Republic and Luhansk People&#8217;s Republic. It would not be in Russia&#8217;s best national and geopolitical interest; they must stay within Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}