{"id":960,"date":"2025-04-28T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/?p=960"},"modified":"2025-04-29T15:59:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:59:39","slug":"russia-looks-to-seize-world-of-tanks-developers-assets-for-extremist-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/russia-looks-to-seize-world-of-tanks-developers-assets-for-extremist-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Looks To Seize &#039;World Of Tanks&#039; Developer&#039;s Assets For &#8220;Extremist Activities&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Over Ukrainian support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/world_of_tanks_blitz\">World of Tanks<\/a>&#8216; Russian operator Lesta Games, which was formerly owned by Wargaming, is being targeted by the Russian government over claims that the maker of various long-running, and highly popular war-sim titles, has been involved in extremist activities.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report from <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20250426\/genprokuratura-2013563207.html\">RIA.ru<\/a> (owned by the Russian state), which has been <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.resetera.com\/threads\/russian-government-moves-to-seize-lesta-studio-and-their-assets-developer-and-publisher-of-wot-and-wows-in-russia-hits-ceo-with-extremism-charges.1174722\/\">machine-translated by a user on Resetera<\/a>, the Prosecutor General&#8217;s office in Russia has stepped in to &#8220;prohibit the activities&#8221; of Wargaming.net (thanks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/russia-moves-to-seize-world-of-tanks-developer-over-ukraine-support\/\">VGC<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/04\/russia-looks-to-seize-world-of-tanks-developers-assets-for-extremist-activities\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over Ukrainian support. World of Tanks&#8216; Russian operator Lesta Games, which was formerly owned by Wargaming, is being targeted by the Russian government over claims that the maker of various long-running, and highly popular war-sim titles, has been involved in extremist activities. According to a report from RIA.ru (owned by the Russian state), which has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}