{"id":431,"date":"2007-11-25T02:17:30","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T01:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=431"},"modified":"2007-11-25T02:17:30","modified_gmt":"2007-11-25T01:17:30","slug":"the-russian-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"The Russian democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian politics is a strange beast. The elected leader is a strongman who rules with an iron grip, and is in the process of subverting the constitution to remain as <em>de facto<\/em> ruler. It calls itself a democracy, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afp.com\/english\/news\/stories\/071124230456.v7dc45le.html\" target=\"_blank\">then you have this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Opposition leader and chess legend Garry Kasparov was jailed for five days Saturday after being arrested during a protest against President Vladimir Putin a week before parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<p>He was sentenced for organising an unsanctioned march and refusing to obey police orders, but told reporters the charges were &#8220;unfounded&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And what if the pro-Putin marches had been unsanctioned? Would there have been a similar crackdown? I think you know the answer to that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian politics is a strange beast. The elected leader is a strongman who rules with an iron grip, and is in the process of subverting the constitution to remain as de facto ruler. It calls itself a democracy, but then you have this: Opposition leader and chess legend Garry Kasparov was jailed for five days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59,61],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}