{"id":662467,"date":"2010-02-10T14:59:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T19:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21986"},"modified":"2010-02-10T14:59:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T19:59:34","slug":"latvia-sells-secret-soviet-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/662467","title":{"rendered":"Latvia Sells Secret Soviet City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/skrunda.jpg?w=275\" alt=\"skrunda\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21987\"  \/> Lavtia has auctioned off an entire city to a private bidder. Skrunda-1 has built by the USSR in the &#8217;80s and kept off all maps and records. &#8220;It is not immediately clear&#8221; what plans the mysterious investor has for it. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/world\/europe\/articles\/2010\/02\/06\/soviet_era_latvian_town_is_sold_for_31m\/\">Boston Globe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Latvia sold a deserted town built around a Soviet-era radar station to a Russian investor who bid $3.1 million at an unusual auction yesterday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The town formerly known as Skrunda-1 housed about 5,000 people during the Cold War. It was abandoned over a decade ago after the Russian military withdrew from Latvia following the Soviet collapse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lavtia has auctioned off an entire city to a private bidder. Skrunda-1 has built by the USSR in the &#8217;80s and kept off all maps and records. &#8220;It is not immediately clear&#8221; what plans the mysterious investor has for it. From the Boston Globe: Latvia sold a deserted town built around a Soviet-era radar station [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2MkX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}