{"id":6862,"date":"2025-09-09T17:45:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/heroes-and-villains-russia-braces-for-eventual-return-of-its-enormous-army\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T17:45:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:45:37","slug":"heroes-and-villains-russia-braces-for-eventual-return-of-its-enormous-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/heroes-and-villains-russia-braces-for-eventual-return-of-its-enormous-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroes and villains: Russia braces for eventual return of its enormous army"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dateline\">LONDON &ndash; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>For Russian wife killer Azamat Iskaliyev, the war was a one-way ticket out of jail.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old had served less than a third of a nine-year murder sentence &mdash; for stabbing his spouse to death in his car in the summer of 2021 because she wanted a divorce &mdash; when he was freed and pardoned by Russia in return for fighting in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The six-month battlefield stint didn&rsquo;t diminish his appetite for violent revenge against women who spurned him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Heroes and villains: Russia braces for eventual return of its enormous army<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &ndash; For Russian wife killer Azamat Iskaliyev, the war was a one-way ticket out of jail. The 37-year-old had served less than a third of a nine-year murder sentence &mdash; for stabbing his spouse to death in his car in the summer of 2021 because she wanted a divorce &mdash; when he was freed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/heroes-and-villains-russia-braces-for-eventual-return-of-its-enormous-army\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Heroes and villains: Russia braces for eventual return of its enormous army&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}