{"id":50559,"date":"2022-11-25T23:08:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T14:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/25\/putinsgrip-regional-allies-loosen-again-after-armenia-snub-csto-summit"},"modified":"2022-11-25T23:08:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T14:08:47","slug":"putins-grip-on-regional-allies-loosens-again-after-armenia-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50559","title":{"rendered":"Putin\u2019s grip on regional allies loosens again after Armenia snub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damaging optics of \u2018family\u2019 photo at CSTO summit highlights fragility of Russia\u2019s influence in wake of war in Ukraine<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/nov\/25\/russia-ukraine-war-live-russia-launches-further-strikes-on-zaporizhzhia-damaging-hospital-as-water-restored-in-kyiv\">Russia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Armenia has asked the French president, Emmanuel Macron, to chair peace talks with Azerbaijan in a fresh challenge to Vladimir Putin\u2019s increasingly loose grip on Russia\u2019s regional allies in the wake of the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The snub from a traditional ally to Putin, who had hosted an inconsequential meeting of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/28\/why-are-armenia-and-azerbaijan-fighting-what-are-implications\">warring countries<\/a>\u2019 leaders last month, comes immediately on the back of his disastrous summit with six former Soviet states.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/25\/putinsgrip-regional-allies-loosen-again-after-armenia-snub-csto-summit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damaging optics of \u2018family\u2019 photo at CSTO summit highlights fragility of Russia\u2019s influence in wake of war in UkraineRussia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updatesArmenia has asked the French president, Emmanuel Macron, to chair peace talks with Azerbaijan i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3457,"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":[1438,1551,1244,262,1724,419,61,930,818,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armenia","category-azerbaijan","category-emmanuel-macron","category-kazakhstan","category-nagorno-karabakh","category-russia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-ukraine","category-vladimir-putin","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\/50559","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\/3457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50560,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50559\/revisions\/50560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}