{"id":1004,"date":"2018-01-29T09:19:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T08:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2018-01-29T09:23:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T08:23:52","slug":"norwegian-spy-pawn-in-russian-political-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1004","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian &#8220;spy&#8221; pawn in Russian political game?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/16880801_303.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1006\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/16880801_303.jpg\" alt=\"Norway has long enjoyed a close relationship with Russia in the north\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/16880801_303.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/16880801_303-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFor the first time ever, Russian authorities have arrested and charged a Norwegian national with spying. 62 year old Frode Berg was apprehended in Moscow in December, and recently a Moscow court denied his appeal to be released pending further investigations and a possible trial. But could he be a pawn in a greater geopolitical game? Here is my report for<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/inside-europe-covering-the-issues-that-shape-europe\/a-19566539\"> Inside Europe on Deutsche Welle.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/390720420&amp;color=%230066cc&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time ever, Russian authorities have arrested and charged a Norwegian national with spying. 62 year old Frode Berg was apprehended in Moscow in December, and recently a Moscow court denied his appeal to be released pending further investigations and a possible trial. But could he be a pawn in a greater geopolitical [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}