{"id":162903,"date":"2012-02-20T15:41:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T11:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=162903"},"modified":"2012-02-20T15:52:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T11:52:09","slug":"russian-president-dmitry-medvedev-to-meet-with-opposition-protest-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/02\/20\/russian-president-dmitry-medvedev-to-meet-with-opposition-protest-leaders.html","title":{"rendered":"Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to Meet with Opposition Protest Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is due to meet some of the heads of Russia&#8217;s opposition protest movement, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/medvedev_to_meet_with_opposition_protest_leaders\/24489878.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">RFE\/RL<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Feb. 20 meeting comes less than two weeks before Russia\u2019s Mar. 4 presidential election, which is widely expected to result in Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin\u2019s reelection.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev, who agreed to stand aside after serving one term so Putin could pursue a return to the presidency, is expected to meet with opposition leaders including leftist radical Sergei Udaltsov and veteran liberal and former government minister Boris Nemtsov.<\/p>\n<p>Reports say the activists are expected to push demands for political change in the wake of the Dec. 4 parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<p>The vote was won by Putin&#8217;s ruling party, but is seen by the opposition as having been marred by widespread fraud.<\/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>Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is due to meet some of the heads of Russia&#8217;s opposition protest movement. The Feb. 20 meeting comes less than&#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":147141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10711,10710,10254],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162903"}],"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=162903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}