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AP – Garry Kasparov
remember the ROOK is worth 5.
Hi Mom! I’m on TV!
can i have 5 hot dogs
I loose five days in Russian prison…but no problem my comrades; it is only five points when i sac my rook.
-John B. Flores
Hello, I’m in jail!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxTI5wP6Rpc
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Hello, I’m in jail!!!
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“How. Me Kemosabe.”
Sam in Lubbock
Hey! I can always try to be elected a Senator from New York like Hilary….after all, she wasn’t from New York either!!!!
It was the same as our first match – first to 6 wins. This time it was me who got to 5-0. Then they again stopped a match. That’s why they wouldn’t let him in!!
“Like Stefan Zweig hero I made chess set with my prison food, but I wore glove so I don’t touch plutonium.”
Kasparov: Russian Election a Farce
By STEVE GUTTERMAN – 7 hours ago
MOSCOW (AP) — Former chess champion and Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov on Friday dismissed Russia’s parliamentary elections this weekend as a farce that will push the country toward what he called a “single-party dictatorship.”
A day after he was released from five days in jail for a street protest, Kasparov said massive state support for President Vladimir Putin’s party and growing pressure on dissenters will cast a mantle of illegitimacy over the Kremlin and will galvanize its opponents.
State authorities have used their levers of power in a push to ensure an overwhelming victory for the main pro-Kremlin party United Russia in Sunday’s elections, which Putin has cast as a referendum on his policies.
He has suggested he could use the vote to claim a popular mandate to retain influence after March 2 presidential elections, in which he is barred by the constitution from seeking a third straight term.
Kasparov, one of Russia’s most prominent opposition figures, said the result of the vote was already clear: It will bring “total domination by United Russia, with massive falsifications,” he said.
“Russia today does not correspond to even the most primitive idea of a democratic state,” he told a news conference. Evoking the specter of Soviet-era Communist party rule, he called it “an authoritarian state with a very serious tendency toward single-party dictatorship.”
Kasparov, who has struggled to attract more than a few thousand people to protests he has helped lead in the past year, said the elections would swell the forces of opposition by pushing once-mainstream parties to the margins.
“Many people will be cast overboard,” said Kasparov, who suggested the vote could unite the fragmented opposition. “After Dec. 2, the number of people with the desire to agree on joint action may rise significantly.”
Aside from United Russia, only one party — the Communists — appears certain to clear the 7 percent threshold needed to win seats in the 450-member State Duma, the lower parliament house.
“A meaningful number of political forces … are being excluded from the process,” Kasparov said, leaving tens of millions of Russians without any chance of representation by politicians who share their views.
“This in itself makes the election a farce, and the volume of falsifications, violations and pressure on any political opponents and political criticism is pushing the current regime into illegitimacy,” he said.
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