{"id":36169,"date":"2019-03-19T03:23:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T03:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36169"},"modified":"2019-03-19T03:23:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T03:23:12","slug":"what-has-russia-gained-from-annexing-crimea-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36169","title":{"rendered":"What has Russia gained from annexing Crimea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"74.4117647059\">\n<p>Monday, March 18 marks five years since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/russia.html\">Russia<\/a> annexed the Crimean Peninsula from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/ukraine.html\">Ukraine<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Western countries condemned the move and imposed economic sanctions against Moscow. Coinciding with the anniversary, the EU, the US and Canada have introduced some more.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/vladimir-putin.html\">Putin<\/a> remains defiant.<\/p>\n<p>He said he&#8217;s not returning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/crimea.html\">Crimea<\/a> to Ukraine and has visited the region to join the celebrations and open two new power stations.<\/p>\n<p>How long can Putin flex his military muscles against the West?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Hazem Sika<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ilya Ponomarev &#8211; Exiled Russian politican<\/p>\n<p>Mark Sleboda &#8211; International relations and security analyst<\/p>\n<p>Oleksiy Haran &#8211; Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, March 18 marks five years since Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine.\u00a0 Western countries condemned the move and imposed economic sanctions against Moscow. Coinciding with the anniversary, the EU, the US and Canada have introduced some more. Yet, Putin remains defiant. He said he&#8217;s not returning Crimea to Ukraine and has visited the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36169","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=36169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}