{"id":290,"date":"2005-01-17T09:18:25","date_gmt":"2005-01-17T09:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/01\/17\/ukraine-the-administration-learned-that-it-did-not-have-sole-influence-over-the-last-guarantor-of-power-the-men-with-the-guns\/"},"modified":"2008-02-27T13:34:08","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T13:34:08","slug":"ukraine-the-administration-learned-that-it-did-not-have-sole-influence-over-the-last-guarantor-of-power-the-men-with-the-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/01\/ukraine-the-administration-learned-that-it-did-not-have-sole-influence-over-the-last-guarantor-of-power-the-men-with-the-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine: &#8220;the administration learned that it did not have sole influence over the last guarantor of power: the men with the guns.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating blow-by-blow account in the NY Times of <a href=\"http:\/\/nytimes.com\/2005\/01\/17\/international\/europe\/17ukraine.html?hp&amp;ex=1106024400&amp;en=2e1aa5aa4131bb4d&amp;ei=5094&amp;partner=homepage\">the role of the SBU (successor to the Soviet-era KGB) in Ukraine&#8217;s &#8220;Orange Revolution&#8221;<\/a>. This is far from being my area of expertise, but it casts an interesting new light on the events of last November. Specifically it accounts for a crucial factor in any successful revolution, support (whether tacit or active) of at least an element of the military and security services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating blow-by-blow account in the NY Times of the role of the SBU (successor to the Soviet-era KGB) in Ukraine&#8217;s &#8220;Orange Revolution&#8221;. This is far from being my area of expertise, but it casts an interesting new light on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/01\/ukraine-the-administration-learned-that-it-did-not-have-sole-influence-over-the-last-guarantor-of-power-the-men-with-the-guns\/\">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":[18],"tags":[182],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ukraine","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","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=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}