{"id":389945,"date":"2018-12-21T00:38:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T23:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-putin-accuses-britain-of-russophobia\/"},"modified":"2018-12-21T00:38:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T23:38:30","slug":"presstv-putin-accuses-britain-of-russophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-putin-accuses-britain-of-russophobia\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Putin accuses Britain of \u2018Russophobia\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused United Kingdom of involvement in a broad campaign of Russophobia, saying London is always thinking of plots to undermine Moscow\u2019s growing clout at the international stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Putin said in a Thursday news conference that Britain\u2019s allegations in March that Russia ordered the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, a former double spy, and his daughter in southern England was only a ploy to downgrade Russia-UK relations to lowest levels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there were no Skripals, they would have come up with something else, that&#8217;s clear to me. There&#8217;s only one goal: to constrain Russia&#8217;s growth as a possible competitor,\u201d said Putin, adding, \u201cIt&#8217;s good that he wasn&#8217;t killed&#8230;Thank God, Skripal is alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has denied UK allegations that its military intelligence service sent two operatives to the town of Salisbury to carry out the poisoning attack on Skripals. Russian officials have repeatedly said that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/12\/20\/583487\/Russia-UK-Putin-Skripals-relations\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused United Kingdom of involvement in a broad campaign of Russophobia, saying London is always thinking of plots to undermine Moscow\u2019s growing clout at the international stage. Putin said in a Thursday news conference that Britain\u2019s allegations in March that Russia ordered the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, a former double [&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-389945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}