{"id":69594,"date":"2024-12-31T09:45:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T09:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=69594"},"modified":"2024-12-31T09:45:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T09:45:14","slug":"voices-hes-ruled-russia-for-25-years-but-what-has-putin-really-got-to-show-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/31\/voices-hes-ruled-russia-for-25-years-but-what-has-putin-really-got-to-show-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices: He\u2019s ruled Russia for 25 years &#8211; but what has Putin really got to show for it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1wHMjA.img?w=768&amp;h=512&amp;m=6&amp;x=1366&amp;y=779&amp;s=894&amp;d=894\" alt=\"Putin today sees military victory as less essential to his survival in power than continuing international tension (AP)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When Boris Yeltsin suddenly resigned as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Russia<\/a>\u2019s first post-Communist president on New Year\u2019s Eve, 1999, his country seemed to be spiralling downhill into economic and political disintegration.\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/voices-he-s-ruled-russia-for-25-years-but-what-has-putin-really-got-to-show-for-it\/ar-AA1wHR2Y?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=f5f8baf973ec45108aa81eb75f1dc27a&amp;ei=104\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&nbsp; When Boris Yeltsin suddenly resigned as\u00a0Russia\u2019s first post-Communist president on New Year\u2019s Eve, 1999, his country seemed to be spiralling downhill&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Putin2.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69595,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69594\/revisions\/69595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}