{"id":153767,"date":"2012-01-16T11:09:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T07:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=153767"},"modified":"2012-01-16T11:10:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T07:10:18","slug":"russias-putin-says-why-he-decided-to-run-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/01\/16\/russias-putin-says-why-he-decided-to-run-for-president.html","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s Putin Says Why He Decided to Run for President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the run-up to Russia\u2019s presidential election prime minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin has shared his views on the challenges the country is facing and assessed the situation in the country.<\/p>\n<p>An article named \u201cRussia in focus \u2013 the challenges we must face\u201d was published on <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/putin2012.ru\/events\/52\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Putin\u2019s campaign website<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span> and in the Izvestia newspaper at midnight on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The program is in part the prime minister and presidential hopeful\u2019s answer to people unhappy with the current political environment, and who took to the streets in December to stage Russia\u2019s biggest protest in two decades, reports <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/politics\/presidential-campaign-putin-article-843\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Russia Today<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On why he agreed to run in the country&#8217;s 2012 presidential elections, he wrote: &#8220;I do not want and will not belittle anyone&#8217;s achievements in the establishment of a new country&#8230; But the fact remains that in 1999 when I became head of government and then later president \u2014 the country was in a deep systemic crisis,&#8221; he said in an article published in Izvestia.<\/p>\n<p>He underlined his role and the role of his loyalists in \u201ctaking Russia out of the deadlock of civil war, cracking down on terrorism, restoring the country\u2019s territorial integrity and constitutional order, boosting the economy and securing one of the world\u2019s fastest rates of economic growth over the last ten years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He concluded, though there are a lot of unsolved problems ahead, \u201cwe are capable of turning them for our good.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He underlined his role and the role of his loyalists in \u201ctaking Russia out of the deadlock of civil war, cracking down on terrorism, restoring the&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10254,35423,16056],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}