{"id":55884,"date":"2023-06-11T01:47:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T16:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/10\/warsaw-mini-soviet-union-russian-poland-capital-exiles"},"modified":"2023-06-12T02:09:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T17:09:36","slug":"warsaw-feels-like-a-mini-soviet-union-how-russian-is-gaining-ground-in-polands-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55884","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Warsaw feels like a mini Soviet Union\u2019: how Russian is gaining ground in Poland\u2019s capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many from Ukraine, Belarus and other ex-Soviet states mostly get by in Russian \u2013 but its prevalence is starting to cause a problem<\/p>\n<p>For Russian citizens, it is extremely difficult to get into Poland these days. Even those with visas for the Schengen zone can be turned away, and the national airline LOT regularly bars Russians from boarding its flights.<\/p>\n<p>Many Poles have a long-standing wariness of Russia seeded by centuries of Russian imperial designs on Poland and the more recent experience of Moscow-backed communist rule, and the feelings have only been hardened by last year\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/10\/warsaw-mini-soviet-union-russian-poland-capital-exiles\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many from Ukraine, Belarus and other ex-Soviet states mostly get by in Russian \u2013 but its prevalence is starting to cause a problemFor Russian citizens, it is extremely difficult to get into Poland these days. Even those with visas for the Schengen zone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3786,"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":[1391,221,1967,1213,419,1081,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belarus","category-europe","category-languages","category-poland","category-russia","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\/55884","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\/3786"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55898,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55884\/revisions\/55898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}