Garry Kasparov is one of the Russian celebrities who sharply criticize Vladimir Putin. The former world chess champion retired from chess in 2005 as world number one.
Since the end of his career he has devoted himself to working in the Russian opposition, initially in Russia and later from exile. He has been chairman of the International Council of the Human Rights Foundation since 2012 and lives with his family in New York. The pressure on Russian civil society and its foreign contacts has increased even more since the beginning of the war.