{"id":48501,"date":"2022-09-15T03:10:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T18:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/14\/former-soviet-states-eye-opportunities-as-russia-suffers-ukraine-rout"},"modified":"2022-09-15T03:10:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T18:10:05","slug":"former-soviet-states-eye-opportunities-as-russia-suffers-ukraine-rout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48501","title":{"rendered":"Former Soviet states eye opportunities as Russia suffers Ukraine rout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow\u2019s influence in the Caucasus and central Asia is being unravelled by its \u2018special military operation\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/12\/ukraine-continues-kharkiv-offensive-despite-apparent-russian-retaliation\">rout of the Russian army in Ukraine\u2019s Kharkiv region<\/a> seems likely to be a turning point in Kyiv\u2019s battle to kick Russian troops out of the country, but it may also cause much broader fallout for Moscow in the wider region, as other former Soviet countries witness what appears to be the limits of Moscow\u2019s capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe power of the Russian flag has declined considerably, and the security system across the former Soviet space does seem to be broken,\u201d said Laurence Broers, associate fellow at Chatham House.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/14\/former-soviet-states-eye-opportunities-as-russia-suffers-ukraine-rout\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow\u2019s influence in the Caucasus and central Asia is being unravelled by its \u2018special military operation\u2019The rout of the Russian army in Ukraine\u2019s Kharkiv region seems likely to be a turning point in Kyiv\u2019s battle to kick Russian troops out of the co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1438,1551,221,262,573,419,61,1081,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armenia","category-azerbaijan","category-europe","category-kazakhstan","category-kyrgyzstan","category-russia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-tajikistan","category-ukraine","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48511,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48501\/revisions\/48511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}