{"id":14833,"date":"2018-09-12T16:23:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T16:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14833"},"modified":"2018-09-12T16:23:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T16:23:17","slug":"a-threat-disguised-as-a-duel-putins-ex-bodyguard-challenges-navalny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14833","title":{"rendered":"A threat disguised as a duel: Putin&#8217;s ex-bodyguard challenges Navalny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Moscow (CNN)<\/cite>At first glance, it looked like an episode from nineteenth-century Russian novel: A general challenging his opponent to a duel. In reality, it was direct threat to Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s domestic political opposition.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">On Tuesday, Russia&#8217;s National Guard chief, Viktor Zolotov, released a YouTube video challenging opposition leader Alexei Navalny to a duel, calling the anti-corruption activist a &#8220;scoundrel,&#8221; and threatening to turn him into a &#8220;tenderized beefsteak.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The video, nearly seven minutes long, was posted on the official YouTube channel of Russia&#8217;s National Guard. Zolotov, appearing in uniform and wearing an officer&#8217;s peaked cap, addressed the activist directly and with barely contained anger in his voice.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow (CNN)At first glance, it looked like an episode from nineteenth-century Russian novel: A general challenging his opponent to a duel. In reality, it was direct threat to Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s domestic political opposition.On Tuesday, Russia&#8217;s National Guard chief, Viktor Zolotov, released a YouTube video challenging opposition leader Alexei Navalny to a duel, calling&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}