{"id":206870,"date":"2026-04-30T09:49:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/we-cannot-give-russia-legitimacy-through-sports-events-says-mep-ville-niinisto\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:49:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:49:04","slug":"we-cannot-give-russia-legitimacy-through-sports-events-says-mep-ville-niinisto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/we-cannot-give-russia-legitimacy-through-sports-events-says-mep-ville-niinisto\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We cannot give Russia legitimacy through sports events&#8217;, says MEP Ville Niinist\u00f6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ville Niinist\u00f6, MEP for the Greens, believes that Russia is now &#8220;weaker than a year ago&#8221; and says the country is using its foreign connections to &#8220;legitimise their war crimes in Ukraine&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/04\/30\/we-cannot-give-russia-legitimacy-through-sports-events-says-mep-ville-niinisto\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ville Niinist\u00f6, MEP for the Greens, believes that Russia is now &#8220;weaker than a year ago&#8221; and says the country is using its foreign connections to &#8220;legitimise their war crimes in Ukraine&#8221;. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":206871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}