{"id":287964,"date":"2016-12-31T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-politician-praises-putin-for-mature-response-to-us\/"},"modified":"2016-12-31T15:21:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T14:21:00","slug":"uk-politician-praises-putin-for-mature-response-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-politician-praises-putin-for-mature-response-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"UK politician praises Putin for \u2018mature response\u2019 to US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>British politician Nigel Farage has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin for his \u201cmature\u201d decision not to expel American diplomats in response to a similar move by Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPleased to see a mature response from Putin,\u201d Farage tweeted on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The former leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), who has cultivated a close relationship with US President-elect Donald Trump, expressed dissatisfaction over what he said \u201ca real Donald Trump presidency can&#8217;t come soon enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has also praised Putin after he rejected on Friday a foreign ministry proposal to retaliate against US President Barack Obama\u2019s decision to expel Russian diplomats.<\/p>\n<p>Putin even rejected to close a wooded picnic area on a Moscow River island used by diplomats, saying he did not want to deprive their children.<em> <\/em>He also sent a New Year\u2019s greetings to Obama, his family, Trump and \u201call the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"310\" width=\"550\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20161231\/08126582-c14b-4ea3-a164-4cc900ac7d5b.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Russian President Vladimir Putin (Photo by&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/31\/504229\/UK-Nigel-Farage-Russia-sanctions-ties-US-Donald-Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British politician Nigel Farage has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin for his \u201cmature\u201d decision not to expel American diplomats in response to a similar move by Washington. \u201cPleased to see a mature response from Putin,\u201d Farage tweeted on Friday. The former leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), who has cultivated a close relationship with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":287965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287964","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=287964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}