{"id":640506,"date":"2022-05-06T08:53:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T08:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=242234"},"modified":"2022-05-06T08:53:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T08:53:44","slug":"taking-aim-at-putin-stephen-cohen-contests-the-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/06\/taking-aim-at-putin-stephen-cohen-contests-the-myths\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Aim at Putin: Stephen Cohen Contests The Myths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I needed someone who knew Russia and Russians at great depth to help me sort through the miasma surrounding the demonization of Vladimer Putin and the frenzied relentlessness of anti-Russia hysteria. It really is truly mindboggling to weave one\u2019s way through an information landscape brimming with lies, false accusations and the vile barrage of hatred  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/05\/06\/taking-aim-at-putin-stephen-cohen-contests-the-myths\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/05\/06\/taking-aim-at-putin-stephen-cohen-contests-the-myths\/\">Taking Aim at Putin: Stephen Cohen Contests The Myths<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/05\/06\/taking-aim-at-putin-stephen-cohen-contests-the-myths\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I needed someone who knew Russia and Russians at great depth to help me sort through the miasma surrounding the demonization of Vladimer Putin and the frenzied relentlessness of anti-Russia hysteria. It really is truly mindboggling to weave one\u2019s way t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640994,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640506\/revisions\/640994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}