{"id":753494,"date":"2018-06-07T08:17:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T12:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=753494"},"modified":"2018-06-07T08:17:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T12:17:48","slug":"is-russia-killing-stray-dogs-ahead-of-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=753494","title":{"rendered":"Is Russia killing stray dogs ahead of the World Cup?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>There are approximately two million strays in Russia\u2019s 11 World Cup host cities. Authorities will spend up to \u00a3119 million on catching, caging, sterilising and euthanising them this year.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>HOWARD AMOS:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;After the mass culls before the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, animal rights activists in the World Cup cities of Sochi and Yekaterinburg fear history could be repeating itself. arlier this year, Russia\u2019s deputy prime minister, Vitaly Mutko, met with animal rights activist to discuss their fears that stray dogs would be exterminated ahead of the football World Cup. Mutko pledged to stop all cruelty, and said he had ordered the construction of shelters for stray animals.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>But activists allege dog killings have continued and that Mutko\u2019s words are meaningless as city governments are not compelled to follow recommendations made at a federal level.\u201cIf you put it in plain Russian, they said \u2018sod off, we\u2019re going to carry on killing\u2019,\u201d says Yekaterina Dmitriyeva, the head of NGO the Foundation for the Protection of Urban Animals, who was present at the meeting&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>There are approximately two million strays in Russia\u2019s 11 World Cup host cities and it has been estimated that local authorities will spend up to \u00a3119 million on catching, caging, sterilising and euthanising animals this year. But activists warn that image-conscious officials are trying to remove strays from the streets by fair means or foul before the arrival of players and fans next month&#8217;. <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2018\/may\/29\/russia-stray-dogs-world-cup-cull-sochi-yekaterinburg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KV66keNDOKU?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOWARD AMOS: &#8216;After the mass culls before the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, animal rights activists in the World Cup cities of Sochi and Yekaterinburg fear history could be repeating itself. arlier this year, Russia\u2019s deputy prime minister, Vitaly Mutko, met with animal rights activist to discuss their fears that stray dogs would be exterminated ahead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,25],"tags":[32,35],"class_list":["post-753494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-welfare","tag-free-living","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=753494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753496,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753494\/revisions\/753496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/753495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}