{"id":16971,"date":"2022-04-11T06:37:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T04:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=16971"},"modified":"2022-04-11T06:38:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T04:38:40","slug":"the-democratic-wests-bulwark-against-lawless-eastern-autocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=16971","title":{"rendered":"The democratic West&#8217;s courageous bulwark against lawless autocracy of the East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/11\/russian-war-crimes-prosecution-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-1wj398p\">\u201cBefore the war, the majority of Ukrainians did not trust the state,\u201d said Venediktova. \u201cThere were grounds for this: the other general prosecutors and the way they behaved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1wj398p\">The office of Ukraine\u2019s prosecutor general has been dogged by accusations of corruption and inefficiency since the country declared independence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1wj398p\">There have been almost no successful major prosecutions over the last <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">30 years<\/span>, with the shooting of dozens of protesters in <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">February 2014<\/span> in central Kyiv, the murder of two prominent Ukrainian journalists, the poisoning of Ukraine\u2019s third president, and countless instances of state corruption and bribery all failing to result in convictions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian: \u201cBefore the war, the majority of Ukrainians did not trust the state,\u201d said Venediktova. \u201cThere were grounds for this: the other general prosecutors and the way they behaved.\u201d The office of Ukraine\u2019s prosecutor general has been dogged by accusations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=16971\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}