{"id":24655,"date":"2018-03-13T11:08:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T11:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=24655"},"modified":"2018-03-13T11:08:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T11:08:56","slug":"eight-contenders-run-for-post-of-russias-next-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/eight-contenders-run-for-post-of-russias-next-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight contenders run for post of Russia&#8217;s next President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russians will elect their next president on Sunday (March 18). The central election commission has registered eight candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Among the contenders are current Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian Communist party nominee Pavel Grudinin, Russian TV personality Ksenia Sobchak, a daughter of a reformist St Petersburg mayor who had hired Putin as an official in City Hall in the 1990s, two politicians who have been in Russian politics for more than 20 years &#8211; the leader of Yabloko party Grigory Yavlinksy and the head of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia Vladimir Zhirinovsky.<\/p>\n<p>Three other candidates for presidency are the leader of Russian All-People&#8217;s Union Sergei Baburin, Russian business ombudsman Boris Titov and the leader of Communists of Russia party Maxim Suraikin.<\/p>\n<p>Opinion polls show Putin, 65, who has been in power, either as president or prime minister, since 2000, will comfortably win re-election and will serve his fourth presidential term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russians will elect their next president on Sunday (March 18). The central election commission has registered eight candidates. Among the contenders are current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24657,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24655\/revisions\/24657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}