{"id":22678,"date":"2018-11-21T15:25:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T15:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22678"},"modified":"2018-11-21T15:25:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T15:25:02","slug":"russia-snubbed-as-interpol-elects-south-korean-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22678","title":{"rendered":"Russia snubbed as Interpol elects South Korean as president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Russia&#8217;s ambitions to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/20\/europe\/interpol-president-vote-russian-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">head international police agency Interpol<\/a> were dashed Wednesday after delegates chose acting head South Korean Kim Jong Yang to take the role.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Alexander Prokopchuk, a former Russian Interior Ministry official, had been expected to be elected president, but critics opposed his nomination, accusing Moscow of using Interpol&#8217;s systems to target and pursue the Kremlin&#8217;s political foes.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">On Monday a bipartisan group of US senators released a letter saying the election of Prokopchuk would be &#8220;akin to putting a fox in charge of a henhouse.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Russia&#8217;s ambitions to head international police agency Interpol were dashed Wednesday after delegates chose acting head South Korean Kim Jong Yang to take the role.Alexander Prokopchuk, a former Russian Interior Ministry official, had been expected to be elected president, but critics opposed his nomination, accusing Moscow of using Interpol&#8217;s systems to target and pursue the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22678","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\/22678","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=22678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}