{"id":14040,"date":"2014-06-04T09:10:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T09:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=14040"},"modified":"2014-06-04T09:10:17","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T09:10:17","slug":"russia-has-almost-no-troops-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=14040","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Russia has almost no troops abroad&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6831\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6831\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/vladimir_putin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6831\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/vladimir_putin-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"Vladimir Putin\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/vladimir_putin-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/vladimir_putin.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vladimir Putin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Russia is still ready for a dialogue with the US, which is the best way to reach mutual understanding, the Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with French TF-1 TV channel and radio station Europe-1, according to ITAR-TASS news agency. Extracts from the interview were released on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have no reasons to believe the US president does not want to talk to the Russian president, but, after all, he is free to do so,&#8221; Putin said. &#8220;I am always ready for a dialogue and think this is the best way to build bridges.&#8221; Until now, the two leaders had spoken on the telephone several times, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Putin pointed to Washington&#8217;s highly aggressive actions on the international arena.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is no secret that the most aggressive, the most rigid policy on protection of own interests, as understood by the US Administration, is pursued exactly by the US, year in, year out,&#8221; Putin said. &#8220;We have barely any troops abroad, whereas the US has troops everywhere, it has military bases all over the world, and everywhere they participate in deciding the fates of other nations that are thousands of miles away from their own borders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Voice of Russia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Russia is still ready for a dialogue with the US, which is the best way to reach mutual understanding, the Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with French TF-1 TV channel and radio station Europe-1, according to ITAR-TASS news agency. Extracts from the interview were released on Wednesday morning. &#8220;I have no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=14040\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Russia has almost no troops abroad&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[1343,66,9006,1638],"class_list":["post-14040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-troops-abroad","tag-us"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/vladimir_putin.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14041,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14040\/revisions\/14041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}