{"id":72741,"date":"2025-07-04T07:06:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/03\/taliban-praise-russias-brave-decision-to-recognise-their-rule-in-afghanistan"},"modified":"2025-07-04T07:06:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:06:19","slug":"taliban-praise-russias-brave-decision-to-recognise-their-rule-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72741","title":{"rendered":"Taliban praise Russia\u2019s \u2018brave decision\u2019 to recognise their rule in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic leaders, in power since 2021, announce development after talks with Russian ambassador in Kabul<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan\u2019s government has said that Russia had become the first country to officially recognise its rule, calling it a \u201cbrave decision\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban swept back to power in 2021 after ousting the foreign-backed government and have imposed an austere version of Islamic law.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/03\/taliban-praise-russias-brave-decision-to-recognise-their-rule-in-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic leaders, in power since 2021, announce development after talks with Russian ambassador in KabulAfghanistan\u2019s government has said that Russia had become the first country to officially recognise its rule, calling it a \u201cbrave decision\u201d.The Taliba&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4832,"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":[46,419,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-russia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/72741","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\/4832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72742,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72741\/revisions\/72742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}