Freed Russian chess champ speaks out
Russian opposition leader, Garry Kasparov, is back on the campaign trail after being released from prison. The former chess champion used an interview with a Moscow radio station to launch another attack on the government, ahead of this Sunday’s polls. Kasparov was jailed for five days after leading an opposition rally at the weekend.
In the radio interview he said forces were uniting in Russia against the anti-democratic powers that be, adding that some 10 political movements from left and right alike were currently squeezed out of the political process.
Opposition groups accuse President Vladimir Putin of strong-arming them out of the pre-election debate. Kasparov’s latest spell behind bars may have been brief, but it effectively excluded him from the last week of campaigning before Sunday’s ballot.
Source: Euro News
He should have gotten more than 5 days for breaking the law.
It shouldn’t be unlawful to speak out against the powers that be. It’s called democracy.
yeah yeah. we all wish him good luck in uniting anarchists, monarchists, nationatists and other “democratic forces” he pretends to lead.
could he explain exactly for what party he was “campaigning” on the elections when he was jaled?
such a great mind. and such a clown. 🙁
Article in the Washington Post on Putin and his henchmen’s love of the law.
http://www.washingtonpost.com
/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/29
/AR2007112902402.html
You will note that people in Russia are being told to go out and vote for Putin’s party or else. The slime ball who keeps posting that Kasparov should be punished, and others of his ilk, don’t want to realize that better people than them (like Kasparov) are fighting for their freedoms. They like to believe that the Russian people are not smart enough to have or don’t deserve freedom. That is what Putin is offering them, contempt. Russia is a great nation, which makes what Putin is doing all the more tragic.
maybe, or perhaps they are putin’s paid propagandists (alliteration !)
GM Kasparov is Russia’s great hope!
He looks good too! 😉
Russia isn’t a great nation.
It’s a weak, stupid, and barbaric nation.
I commend GK for what he is doing. He has true guts.