{"id":98474,"date":"2019-06-22T02:18:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T00:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/06\/22\/putin-bans-russian-airlines-from-flying-to-georgia\/"},"modified":"2019-06-22T02:18:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T00:18:15","slug":"putin-bans-russian-airlines-from-flying-to-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=98474","title":{"rendered":"Putin bans Russian airlines from flying to Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018National security\u2019 measure seriously escalates tensions after clashes in Tbilisi during protests against visit by Russian MPVladimir Putin has banned Russia\u2019s airlines from flying to Georgia, a day after a Russian lawmaker\u2019s visit to the country prompted violent clashes between protesters and police.The ban is a serious escalation in tensions between the neighbouring countries, which fought a war in 2008. The suspension of flights is designed to put pressure on Georgia\u2019s tourism industry, which accounted for 7.6% of the country\u2019s GDP in 2018. More than 1.4 million Russians visited Georgia last year. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jun\/22\/putin-bans-russian-airlines-from-flying-to-georgia\" target=\"_blank\">Putin bans Russian airlines from flying to Georgia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018National security\u2019 measure seriously escalates tensions after clashes in Tbilisi during protests against visit by Russian MPVladimir Putin has banned Russia\u2019s airlines from flying to Georgia, a day after a Russian lawmaker\u2019s visit to the country prompted violent clashes between protesters and police.The ban is a serious escalation in tensions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}