{"id":45078,"date":"2013-10-24T21:04:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T17:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=45078"},"modified":"2013-10-24T21:04:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T17:04:18","slug":"boxer-klitschko-to-run-for-ukraine-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=45078","title":{"rendered":"Boxer Klitschko to Run for Ukraine Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/vitali-klitschko.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45076\" alt=\"vitali klitschko,\u056f\u056c\u056b\u0579\u056f\u0578\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/vitali-klitschko.jpg\" width=\"307\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/vitali-klitschko.jpg 307w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/vitali-klitschko-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vitali Klitschko, a heavyweight boxing champion and top Ukrainian opposition leader, says he will run for the ex-Soviet nation&#8217;s presidency in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old was elected to parliament last fall as the head of his pro-Western party Udar (&#8220;Punch&#8221; in English). Since then, Klitschko, the reigning WBC heavyweight champion, has campaigned against what he calls authoritarian moves by President Viktor Yanukovych.<\/p>\n<p>He particularly criticized the jailing of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, which was seen as politically motivated by the West.<\/p>\n<p>Klitschko announced his widely expected presidential bid Thursday in response to efforts by pro-government forces to pass a bill that could prevent him from running because he has permanent residency status in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Klitschko vowed that he &#8220;will not be frightened or stopped by this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitali Klitschko, a heavyweight boxing champion and top Ukrainian opposition leader, says he will run&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[3080,3082,3081],"class_list":["post-45078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-klitschko","tag-presidency","tag-ukraine","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}