{"id":118,"date":"2006-03-26T08:11:39","date_gmt":"2006-03-26T16:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=118"},"modified":"2006-03-26T08:21:15","modified_gmt":"2006-03-26T16:21:15","slug":"russian-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/russian-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Comeback?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Potential implications in stories like this one<\/a> interest me very much.<\/p>\n

Ukrainians cast ballots for a new parliament, with Russia-friendly forces poised to make a strong comeback in the first electoral test for the nation’s bickering “orange revolution” leadership and its pro-Western drive.<\/p>\n

Russia and the West, which wrangled over the bitterly contested 2004 campaign, are once again keenly watching the ballot in this strategic country.<\/p>\n

While the Kremlin sees Ukraine as its historic backyard, the West has encouraged Yushchenko’s drive to enter its ranks, safe from an increasingly confident and authoritarian Moscow.<\/dd>\n<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n

Ever since it happened, I’ve been suspicious of the Break-Up of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

So events of the last year or so in particular have left me wondering if a leaner and meaner “upgrade” of the USSR is in the works.<\/p>\n

Maybe I’m just being kooky. Or at least spooky.<\/p>\n

Perhaps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Potential implications in stories like this one interest me very much. Ukrainians cast ballots for a new parliament, with Russia-friendly forces poised to make a strong comeback in the first electoral test for the nation’s bickering “orange revolution” leadership and its pro-Western drive. Russia and the West, which wrangled over the bitterly contested 2004 campaign, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisandthat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-1U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}