{"id":44914,"date":"2023-03-12T15:44:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T15:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=44914"},"modified":"2023-03-12T15:44:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T15:44:26","slug":"a-stink-of-corruption-in-ukraine-the-bad-smell-coming-out-of-kyiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=44914","title":{"rendered":"A stink of corruption in Ukraine: the bad smell coming out of Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one could say that Ukraine was some kind of ideal state before Russia launched its invasion last year, said Reinhard Veser in\u00a0Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. On the contrary, it was seen as one of Europe\u2019s most corrupt countries, ruled by oligarchs and riddled with graft and corruption&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweek.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/europe\/959525\/a-stink-of-corruption-the-bad-smell-coming-out-of-kyiv\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one could say that Ukraine was some kind of ideal state before Russia launched<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/44914-a-stink-of-corruption-in-ukraine-the-bad-smell-coming-out-of-kyiv.jpg",160,90,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/44914-a-stink-of-corruption-in-ukraine-the-bad-smell-coming-out-of-kyiv-150x90.jpg",150,90,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/44914-a-stink-of-corruption-in-ukraine-the-bad-smell-coming-out-of-kyiv.jpg",160,90,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/44914-a-stink-of-corruption-in-ukraine-the-bad-smell-coming-out-of-kyiv.jpg",160,90,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/44914-a-stink-of-corruption-in-ukraine-the-bad-smell-coming-out-of-kyiv.jpg",160,90,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/44914-a-stink-of-corruption-in-ukraine-the-bad-smell-coming-out-of-kyiv.jpg",160,90,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/44914-a-stink-of-corruption-in-ukraine-the-bad-smell-coming-out-of-kyiv.jpg",160,90,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/44914-a-stink-of-corruption-in-ukraine-the-bad-smell-coming-out-of-kyiv.jpg",160,90,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/44914-a-stink-of-corruption-in-ukraine-the-bad-smell-coming-out-of-kyiv.jpg",160,90,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/44914-a-stink-of-corruption-in-ukraine-the-bad-smell-coming-out-of-kyiv.jpg",160,90,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=16\" rel=\"category\">Europe<\/a>","tag_info":"Europe","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}