{"id":258,"date":"2003-12-09T05:34:10","date_gmt":"2003-12-09T09:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=258"},"modified":"2003-12-09T05:34:10","modified_gmt":"2003-12-09T09:34:10","slug":"more-election-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"More &#8216;election&#8217; news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chechnya&#8217;s President Ahmad Kadyrov, &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/9922728C-073D-4638-9B49-0F72A1F651EB.htm\">elected<\/a>&#8216; under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/chechnya\/Story\/0,2763,1057308,00.html\">suspicious circumstances<\/a> October 5, 2003, is probably taking time out from assassination attempts to <a href=\"http:\/\/newsfromrussia.com\/main\/2003\/12\/08\/51709.html\">celebrate<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/EC5BD163-B481-4DA1-84BA-DE99FADF084B.htm\">latest discredited poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/chechnya\/Story\/0,2763,818521,00.html\">&#8220;That&#8217;s it, the war is over&#8221;<\/a>?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/chechnya\/Story\/0,2763,1101264,00.html\">Not quite<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/chechnya\/Story\/0,2763,1062131,00.html\">2<\/a>], despite Silvio Berlusconi&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/chechnya\/Story\/0,2763,1086876,00.html\">cheerleading<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rumsfeld <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A33186-2003Dec3?language=printer\">offered victory congratulations<\/a> to the recently &#8216;elected&#8217; president of Azerbaijan during his visit there, but refused to answer questions on the poll&#8217;s legitimacy.<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A40036-2003Dec5?language=printer\">assured<\/a> the U.S.-backed leaders in Georgia he&#8217;d take their request for more military aid under consideration.<\/p>\n<p>Rumsfeld was promised <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/wire\/sns-ap-georgia-violence,0,806500,print.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines\">&#8220;100%&#8221;<\/a> security potential, while pro-Shevardnadze people and others not aligned with the current leadership seem to be fending for themselves in the post-revolution aftermath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chechnya&#8217;s President Ahmad Kadyrov, &#8216;elected&#8216; under suspicious circumstances October 5, 2003, is probably taking time out from assassination attempts to celebrate the latest discredited poll. &#8220;That&#8217;s it, the war is over&#8221;? Not quite [2], despite Silvio Berlusconi&#8217;s cheerleading. Rumsfeld offered &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=258\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}