{"id":1497,"date":"2007-08-22T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/russia_steps_up_military_expansion\/"},"modified":"2007-08-22T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T17:14:00","slug":"russia_steps_up_military_expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1497","title":{"rendered":"Russia steps up military expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vladimir Putin announced ambitious plans to revive Russia&#8217;s military power and restore its role as the world&#8217;s leading producer of military aircraft yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the opening of the largest airshow in Russia&#8217;s post-Soviet history, the president said he was determined to make aircraft manufacture a national priority after decades of lagging behind the west.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks follow his decision last week to resume long-range missions by strategic bomber aircraft capable of hitting the US with nuclear weapons. Patrols over the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic began last week for the first time since 1992.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/russia\/article\/0,,2153669,00.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vladimir Putin announced ambitious plans to revive Russia&#8217;s military power and restore its role as the world&#8217;s leading producer of military aircraft yesterday. Speaking at the opening of the largest airshow in Russia&#8217;s post-Soviet history, the president said he was<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1497\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[479],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}