{"id":15901,"date":"2002-06-11T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-11T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/11\/the-russian-mafia-has-quite-a-stake-in-russian\/"},"modified":"2002-06-11T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-11T11:15:00","slug":"the-russian-mafia-has-quite-a-stake-in-russian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/11\/the-russian-mafia-has-quite-a-stake-in-russian\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/shows\/hockey\/interviews\/warshaw.html\" target=\"_blank\">Russian Mafia has quite a stake in Russian hockey<\/a> and its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/shows\/hockey\/\" target=\"_blank\">influence in the NHL<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/hockey\/nhl\/news\/1997\/06\/10\/news.rusmafia.html\" target=\"_blank\">extorting players<\/a> is apparently common knowledge.  I always suspected this was the case, but I never realized just how extensive things were.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-77605116?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Mafia has quite a stake in Russian hockey and its influence in the NHL in extorting players is apparently common knowledge. I always suspected this was the case, but I never realized just how extensive things were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}