{"id":78695,"date":"2026-09-14T23:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T04:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/nhl-star-alex-ovechkin-appears-in-campaign-ad-for-pro-putin-united-russia-party\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T23:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T04:55:15","slug":"nhl-star-alex-ovechkin-appears-in-campaign-ad-for-pro-putin-united-russia-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/nhl-star-alex-ovechkin-appears-in-campaign-ad-for-pro-putin-united-russia-party\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL star Alex Ovechkin appears in campaign ad for pro-Putin United Russia party"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Capitals star is long-time supporter of Russian leader<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Ovechkin is NHL\u2019s all-time leading goalscorer<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alex Ovechkin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/06\/alex-ovechkin-nhl-scoring-record\">the NHL\u2019s all-time leading goalscorer<\/a>, has appeared in a campaign ad for the United Russia party, which supports Vladimir Putin, as he prepares for the new hockey season.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian business newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vedomosti.ru\/politics\/galleries\/2026\/09\/11\/1228018-soratniki-edinoi-rossii#140737498901135\">Vedomosti published <\/a>images of the Washington Capitals star alongside pro-Putin figures such as Russia\u2019s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, the leading parliamentary candidate on United Russia\u2019s list, and Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the propaganda network RT.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/sep\/14\/nhl-star-alex-ovechkin-appears-in-campaign-ad-for-pro-putin-united-russia-party\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capitals star is long-time supporter of Russian leader Ovechkin is NHL\u2019s all-time leading goalscorer Alex Ovechkin, the NHL\u2019s all-time leading goalscorer, has appeared in a campaign ad for the United Russia party, which supports Vladimir Putin, as he prepares for the new hockey season. The Russian business newspaper Vedomosti published images of the Washington Capitals &#8230; <a title=\"NHL star Alex Ovechkin appears in campaign ad for pro-Putin United Russia party\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/nhl-star-alex-ovechkin-appears-in-campaign-ad-for-pro-putin-united-russia-party\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NHL star Alex Ovechkin appears in campaign ad for pro-Putin United Russia party\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}