{"id":234912,"date":"2019-10-17T19:59:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T23:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=234912"},"modified":"2019-10-17T19:59:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T23:59:33","slug":"visit-russia-dispel-stereotypes-vs-us-envoy-tells-pinoys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/10\/17\/visit-russia-dispel-stereotypes-vs-us-envoy-tells-pinoys\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit Russia, dispel stereotypes vs. us, envoy tells Pinoys"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_234913\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-234913\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/CDO7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-234913\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/CDO7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/CDO7.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/CDO7-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/CDO7-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/CDO7-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-234913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte shares a light moment with Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Philippines Igor Khovaev and Joint Stock Company (JSC) Rosoboronexport Director General Alexander Mikheev who paid a courtesy call on the President at the Malaca\u00f1an Palace on August 19, 2019. ROBINSON NI\u00d1AL JR.\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Russian Ambassador to the Philippines Igor Khovaev is inviting Filipinos to visit Russia and discover a country that is very different from how it is stereotyped in the movies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I invite all Filipinos, please go to Russia, discover my country,&#8221; Khovaev said in a CNN Philippines interview on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My country is much, much different from those aggressive Russian guys, as portrayed in Hollywood movies,&#8221; he added in jest.<\/p>\n<p>The invitation came as the Russian government recently announced the free e-visa privilege for Filipinos traveling to Saint Petersburg and the surrounding region of Leningrad.<\/p>\n<p>The e-visa is only valid for a maximum of eight travel days and is only available to those traveling for tourism, business, and humanitarian purposes.<\/p>\n<p>While the visa privilege is quite limited, Khovaev said the move reflects Moscow&#8217;s will to increase its people-to-people ties with other nations, including the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a very good step facilitating, encouraging people-to-people context and I believe that will continue at this path definitely,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We Russians and Filipinos have a lot in common. We have the conditions to be good friends and partners,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Russian Ambassador to the Philippines Igor Khovaev is inviting Filipinos to visit Russia and discover a country that is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":234913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234914,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234912\/revisions\/234914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}