{"id":28610,"date":"2019-01-10T21:22:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T21:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28610"},"modified":"2019-01-10T21:22:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T21:22:32","slug":"murdered-journalists-were-tracked-by-police-with-shadowy-russian-links-evidence-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28610","title":{"rendered":"Murdered journalists were tracked by police with shadowy Russian links, evidence shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>New evidence shows that three Russian journalists killed in the Central African Republic last year were victims of a well-planned ambush involving a senior police officer with shadowy Russian connections &#8212; and they were tracked from the moment they arrived in the country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The three journalists &#8212; Kirill Radchenko, Alexander Rastorguyev and Orkhan Dzhemal &#8212; went to CAR in July 2018 to investigate the activities of Russian private military contractors. Their intention was to find out how the contractors were involved in exploiting the CAR&#8217;s mineral wealth.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The trio were shot dead after the vehicle in which they were traveling was attacked on a remote road in the volatile country. Their fate has cast a spotlight on a growing Russian presence in Africa, involving the Kremlin, private companies with ties to to President Vladimir Putin and large shipments of weapons. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)New evidence shows that three Russian journalists killed in the Central African Republic last year were victims of a well-planned ambush involving a senior police officer with shadowy Russian connections &#8212; and they were tracked from the moment they arrived in the country.The three journalists &#8212; Kirill Radchenko, Alexander Rastorguyev and Orkhan Dzhemal &#8212; went&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28610","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\/28610","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=28610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}