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Gulag survivor Solzhenitsyn praises Putin<\/a>, while a former KGB general calls Russia a criminal state<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gulag survivor Solzhenitsyn praises Putin, while a former KGB general calls Russia a criminal state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-explicit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-pP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1383,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/rush-n-attack","url_meta":{"origin":1601,"position":0},"title":"Rush ‘n’ Attack","author":"Gil","date":"March 8, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been thinking a lot about Russian policy (domestic and foreign) lately. 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