{"id":51131,"date":"2025-07-26T22:33:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T02:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/why-zelensky-backtracked-on-his-controversial-law\/26\/07\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T22:33:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T02:33:30","slug":"why-zelensky-backtracked-on-his-controversial-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/why-zelensky-backtracked-on-his-controversial-law\/26\/07\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Zelensky Backtracked on His Controversial Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/>Facing growing pressure amid nationwide protests, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine backtracked on controversial legislation that would have weakened the country\u2019s independent anticorruption institutions. Katrin Bennhold, a senior writer, and Marc Santora, an international news editor for The New York Times, explain the events that led to the reversal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/world\/europe\/100000010301803\/ukraine-mass-protests-zelensky.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facing growing pressure amid nationwide protests, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine backtracked on controversial legislation that would have weakened the country&rsquo;s independent<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/why-zelensky-backtracked-on-his-controversial-law\/26\/07\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/07\/26\/world\/europe\/THUMBNAIL\/THUMBNAIL-facebookJumbo.jpg?video-overlay","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}