{"id":8144,"date":"2009-08-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/20\/russian-president-is-yoga-practitioner\/"},"modified":"2009-08-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T12:00:00","slug":"russian-president-is-yoga-practitioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/20\/russian-president-is-yoga-practitioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian President Is Yoga Practitioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/1000petals.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/20\/medvedev-russian-presiden-yoga-sahaja\/\">1000petals.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSSIA, May 20, 2009: The new Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, seems to be Russia&#8217;s most religiously oriented leader in a long time. In addition to his connection to the Russian Orthodox (Christian) Church, Medvedev is known for practicing yoga.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev, 42, is Russia&#8217;s first head of state to practice yoga. During the Soviet era, the ancient Indian practices were actually banned.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian people have tended to follow their recent presidents into their interests, such as Yeltsin&#8217;s tennis and Putin&#8217;s judo; so Indian media expect that with the support of the new president, yoga in Russia will get a huge push. Some speculate that Medvedev&#8217;s practice of yoga could lead to Russia having more yoga schools than India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: 1000petals.wordpress.com RUSSIA, May 20, 2009: The new Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, seems to be Russia&#8217;s most religiously oriented leader,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}