{"id":1486,"date":"2007-02-18T18:36:10","date_gmt":"2007-02-18T18:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/18\/russia-and-chechnya-deja-vu\/"},"modified":"2008-08-18T11:28:19","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T11:28:19","slug":"russia-and-chechnya-deja-vu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/russia-and-chechnya-deja-vu\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia and Chechnya &#8211; deja vu&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bit of breaking news &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interfax.ru\/e\/B\/politics\/28.html?id_issue=11680591\">a bomb&#8217;s gone off in a MacDonalds in St. Petersburg about an hour or so ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m not much of a one for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Litvinenko#Allegations_against_the_Russian_Government\">conspiracy theories<\/a>, but this all sounds rather familiar&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1994 &#8211; Russian elections coming up; Chechnya unstable; terrorists attack; war with Chechnya starts; government types do well in elections<\/p>\n<p>1996 &#8211; Russian elections coming up; Chechnya unstable; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/WORLD\/9606\/11\/moscow.blast\/\">terrorists attack<\/a>; war with Chechnya kicks up a gear; government types do well in elections<\/p>\n<p>1999 &#8211; Russian elections coming up; Chechnya unstable; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russian_Apartment_Bombings\">terrorists attack<\/a>; war with Chechnya starts; government types do well in elections<\/p>\n<p>2007 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russian_legislative_election,_2007\">Russian elections coming up<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/24b881bc-be2b-11db-bd86-0000779e2340,_i_rssPage=7c485a38-2f7a-11da-8b51-00000e2511c8.html\">Chechnya unstable<\/a>; terrorists attack&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday update:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafax.ro\/english\/articole-free\/Russian-Police-See-Mcdonald--s-Blast-As-Hooliganism-621522-9.html\">Maybe not<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bit of breaking news &#8211; a bomb&#8217;s gone off in a MacDonalds in St. Petersburg about an hour or so ago. Now I&#8217;m not much of a one for conspiracy theories, but this all sounds rather familiar&#8230; 1994 &#8211; Russian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/russia-and-chechnya-deja-vu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-former-ussr","category-the-caucasus-former-ussr-rest-of-the-world-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}