{"id":645713,"date":"2026-10-30T09:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T09:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/645713\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T09:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T09:22:12","slug":"parliament-investigates-how-russian-ambassador-made-uninvited-visit-will-be-blocked-in-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/645713\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament investigates how Russian Ambassador made uninvited visit, will be blocked in future"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt\u2019s all because they are the aggressor in Ukraine,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Krans attended a Parliamentary function promoting China\u2019s Hunan province. However, Brownlee said he was not on the guest list, likely using his ambassador status. <\/p>\n

Parliament was unaware of his presence until the Herald began making inquiries after spotting a diplomatic car flying the Russian flag parked on the Parliamentary forecourt. <\/p>\n

Brownlee said Parliamentary security did a great job securing the precinct but had been made aware the ambassador should not be invited in the future. <\/p>\n

Krans sat down with the Herald <\/a>on his arrival in New Zealand and said he wanted to reset relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n

The Russian Embassy was approached for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s all because they are the aggressor in Ukraine,\u201d he said. Krans attended a Parliamentary function promoting China\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45343,19103,5195,28648,112547,3273,221,78,35200,17706,239838,1362,44406,111,43,139,69,56820,24637,56448,8221,2437,239837,210,28050,1865,257965,9863,1533],"class_list":["post-645713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-ambassador","tag-attend","tag-be","tag-blocked","tag-function","tag-future","tag-how","tag-in","tag-investigated","tag-investigates","tag-krans","tag-made","tag-managed","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-onto","tag-parliament","tag-precinct","tag-russian","tag-security","tag-stanislav","tag-through","tag-thursday","tag-today","tag-uninvited","tag-visit","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}