{"id":245656,"date":"2016-05-24T17:27:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T17:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/brexit-will-be-applauded-in-moscow-uk-defense-secretary\/"},"modified":"2016-05-24T17:27:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T17:27:43","slug":"brexit-will-be-applauded-in-moscow-uk-defense-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/brexit-will-be-applauded-in-moscow-uk-defense-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit will be &#039;applauded&#039; in Moscow: UK defense secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"79\">\n<p><strong>Britain\u2019s possible exit from the European Union (EU) will be \u201cabsolutely applauded in Moscow\u201d as it would lead to the relaxation of Western sanctions against Russia, says UK Defense\u00a0Secretary\u00a0Michael Fallon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking before the House of Commons defense committee, chaired by fierce Brexit supporter Julian Lewis, Fallon warned that voting to leave the 28-member bloc during the June 23 referendum would be detrimental to Europe\u2019s security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA huge amount is hanging on the vote on 23 June not just for the people of this country but for the collective security of Europe and the west,\u201d he told the bipartisan committee.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the Ukrainian crisis and Crimea\u2019s reunification with Russia, the top military official noted that without London\u2019s leading role, Western sanctions against Moscow would have been much weaker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were there and able to lead the debate, the EU was able to ensure the toughest sanctions were imposed,\u201d he said,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/05\/24\/467223\/Fallon-Russia-EU-sanctions-Brexit\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s possible exit from the European Union (EU) will be \u201cabsolutely applauded in Moscow\u201d as it would lead to the relaxation of Western sanctions against Russia, says UK Defense\u00a0Secretary\u00a0Michael Fallon. Speaking before the House of Commons defense committee, chaired by fierce Brexit supporter Julian Lewis, Fallon warned that voting to leave the 28-member bloc during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-245656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}