{"id":53711,"date":"2013-11-26T04:28:38","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T00:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=53711"},"modified":"2013-11-26T04:28:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T00:28:38","slug":"putin-arrives-in-italy-to-meet-the-pope-as-italian-media-claim-he-will-make-berlusconi-russian-ambassador-to-vatican-giving-him-diplomatic-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=53711","title":{"rendered":"Putin arrives in Italy to meet the Pope as Italian media claim he will make Berlusconi Russian ambassador to Vatican, giving him diplomatic immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Vladimir-Putin-Silvio-Berlusconi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-53708\" alt=\"\u057e\u056c\u0561\u0564\u056b\u0574\u056b\u0580 \u057a\u0578\u0582\u057f\u056b\u0576,\u057d\u056b\u056c\u057e\u056b\u0578 \u0562\u0565\u0580\u056c\u0578\u0582\u057d\u056f\u0578\u0576\u056b\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Vladimir-Putin-Silvio-Berlusconi.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Vladimir-Putin-Silvio-Berlusconi.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Vladimir-Putin-Silvio-Berlusconi-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Vladimir-Putin-Silvio-Berlusconi-420x300.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>Russian president Vladimir Putin will meet the Pope today &#8211; amid claims he is planning to name scandal-mired Silvio Berlusconi as Russia&#8217;s ambassador to the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Putin will hold private talks with Pope Francis about the Syrian conflict, months after the Pope sent him an angry letter criticising the G20&#8217;s failure to provide more aid.<\/p>\n<p>Now it has been claimed Mr Putin is set to grant Berlusconi diplomatic immunity &#8211; despite him being convicted of sex with an underage prostitute and facing another trial over bribery claims.<\/p>\n<p>It would hand Berlusconi several privileges including a right to travel &#8211; something his numerous convictions have forced him to give up.<\/p>\n<p>The former Italian premier and Putin, both highly controversial figures in world politics, are close friends and regularly defend each other against criticism.<br \/>\nIn September the Pope wrote directly to Putin imploring him to co-operate with other international leaders to help the people of Syria.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian president Vladimir Putin will meet the Pope today &#8211; amid claims he is planning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":53708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,149,137],"tags":[4263,2096,1630,917],"class_list":["post-53711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-russia","category-world","tag-berlusconi","tag-pope","tag-putin","tag-vatican","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53711","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=53711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}