{"id":40430,"date":"2019-08-10T21:22:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T21:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40430"},"modified":"2019-08-10T21:22:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T21:22:53","slug":"are-cracks-appearing-in-putins-grip-on-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40430","title":{"rendered":"Are cracks appearing in Putin&#8217;s grip on power?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Moscow (CNN)<\/cite>On August 9, 1999, <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2013\/10\/29\/world\/russia-fast-facts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Russian history changed forever<\/a>. Then-President <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2013\/10\/29\/world\/russia-fast-facts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Boris Yeltsin<\/a> named <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2013\/01\/03\/world\/europe\/vladimir-putin---fast-facts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Vladimir Putin<\/a>, his former head of domestic intelligence, as acting prime minister.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">It seemed likely to be a short-lived appointment. Putin&#8217;s predecessor had lasted only a few months in the job, and Yeltsin had seen three other prime ministers come and go following the financial crash of <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/1998\/08\/13\/markets\/russia\/\" target=\"_blank\">August 1998.<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">At the time, Putin possessed none of the aura of a world leader. Before joining the Yeltsin administration, he had a largely behind-the-scenes career as an adviser to St. Petersburg&#8217;s mayor, Anatoly Sobchak. He then moved to Moscow to work for the Presidential Property Management Department, an unlikely springboard to national office.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow (CNN)On August 9, 1999, Russian history changed forever. Then-President Boris Yeltsin named Vladimir Putin, his former head of domestic intelligence, as acting prime minister.It seemed likely to be a short-lived appointment. Putin&#8217;s predecessor had lasted only a few months in the job, and Yeltsin had seen three other prime ministers come and go following&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40430","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\/40430","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=40430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}