{"id":46264,"date":"2013-10-29T18:58:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T14:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=46264"},"modified":"2013-10-29T18:58:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T14:58:01","slug":"putin-gays-lesbians-welcome-in-sochi-for-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=46264","title":{"rendered":"Putin: Gays, lesbians welcome in Sochi for Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/putin-olympic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-46262\" alt=\"putin-olympic\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/putin-olympic.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/putin-olympic.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/putin-olympic-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/putin-olympic-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladmir Putin says everyone will be welcomed to next year&#8217;s Winter Olympics in Russia, regardless of sexual orientation &#8212; comments that come on the heels of a controversial Russian law on homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>Putin made his latest assurances on the matter on Monday as he welcomed International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach and other sports officials to his summer residence in Sochi &#8212; the Black Sea resort town where the Games will happen in February &#8212; state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Putin also said in an interview on state television in September that gay people would not be discriminated against at the Sochi Games. But that appeared at odds with statements made by government officials that the anti-gay propaganda law would be enforced.<\/p>\n<p>The IOC in August said it received assurances &#8220;from the highest level of government in Russia&#8221; that the law would not affect people attending or taking part in the Games. The next month, the IOC said the law did not violate the Olympic Charter<\/p>\n<p>In August, U.S. President Barack Obama rejected calls for his country to boycott the Games, saying such a move would hurt American athletes who trained and sacrificed to qualify.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Russian President Vladmir Putin says everyone will be welcomed to next year&#8217;s Winter Olympics&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":46262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,149,137],"tags":[3299,1630],"class_list":["post-46264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-russia","category-world","tag-olympics","tag-putin","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46264","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}