{"id":529,"date":"2025-11-27T02:31:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/?p=529"},"modified":"2025-12-01T13:34:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T13:34:29","slug":"putin-plays-traditional-kyrgyz-lute-in-bishkek-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/27\/putin-plays-traditional-kyrgyz-lute-in-bishkek-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin plays traditional Kyrgyz lute in Bishkek (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Russian president will attend a regional security summit on Thursday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"104\" data-end=\"358\">Russian President Vladimir Putin tried to play a traditional lute during a visit to Kyrgyzstan&rsquo;s capital, Bishkek, on Wednesday. Putin picked up a komuz as he toured a pavilion shaped like a nomadic yurt built on the grounds of the Kyrgyz presidential residence.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"626\" data-end=\"899\"><em>&ldquo;It has three strings, just like a balalaika,&rdquo;<\/em> a musician told Putin in a video. <em>&ldquo;Yes, I understand,&rdquo;<\/em>&nbsp;he replied.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"626\" data-end=\"899\">As Putin attempted to play, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is heard saying the instrument is out of tune.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"901\" data-end=\"1137\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">During his trip, Putin met with Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov. On Thursday, he will attend a summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a regional defense pact comprising countries that were part of the Soviet Union.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian president will attend a regional security summit on Thursday Russian President Vladimir Putin tried to play a traditional lute during a visit to Kyrgyzstan&rsquo;s capital, Bishkek, on Wednesday. Putin picked up a komuz as he toured a pavilion shaped like a nomadic yurt built on the grounds of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/27\/putin-plays-traditional-kyrgyz-lute-in-bishkek-video\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}