{"id":243438,"date":"2026-10-07T23:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T23:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/russian-man-who-swam-from-kaliningrad-to-lithuania-in-asylum-attempt-sentenced-to-six-years-hard-labour\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T23:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T23:49:11","slug":"russian-man-who-swam-from-kaliningrad-to-lithuania-in-asylum-attempt-sentenced-to-six-years-hard-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/russian-man-who-swam-from-kaliningrad-to-lithuania-in-asylum-attempt-sentenced-to-six-years-hard-labour\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian man who swam from Kaliningrad to Lithuania in asylum attempt sentenced to six years hard labour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 68-year-old Russian man who swam across the Nemunas River from Russia&#8217;s Kaliningrad exclave into neighbouring Lithuania in an attempt to seek asylum has been sentenced to six years in a strict-regime penal colony in Russia for &#8220;publicly justifying terrorism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/10\/08\/russian-man-who-swam-from-kaliningrad-to-lithuania-in-asylum-attempt-sentenced-to-six-year\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 68-year-old Russian man who swam across the Nemunas River from Russia&#8217;s Kaliningrad exclave into neighbouring Lithuania in an attempt to seek asylum has been sentenced to six years in a strict-regime penal colony in Russia for &#8220;publicly justifying terrorism.&#8221; Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":243439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243438","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\/243438","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=243438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}