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Updated Wednesday, March 6, 2024-16:08
War Interview with Garry Kasparov (2022)
The Russian authorities have included the exiled chess player
Garry Kasparov
, world champion between 1985 and 2000, on the list of extremists and terrorists. The information has appeared on the website of Rosfinmonitoring, the Russian financial supervisor.
Last December, Russia declared Boris Akunin, one of the most widely read contemporary writers in Russia, a terrorist and extremist, highly critical of the war in Ukraine.
Kasparov
, who
has lived in the US
for
more than 10 years
, is one of the toughest opponents in exile towards the Kremlin.
Two weeks ago, after learning of the death in prison of the Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, Kasparov did not hesitate to accuse the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, of the same. "Putin is Navalny's murderer," he wrote in X.