Kasparov starts new Russian anti-Kremlin movement
By PAUL SONNE – 1 hour ago
KHIMKI, Russia (AP) — Former chess champion Garry Kasparov and other prominent liberals launched a new anti-Kremlin movement in Russia on Saturday.
The organization, called Solidarity after the victorious Polish anti-communist movement, aims to unite the country’s dysfunctional liberal forces and encourage a popular revolution similar to that seen in other ex-Soviet countries.
“We are fighting for victory because we have something to say to our people and something to offer them,” Kasparov said at the founding congress Saturday in a Moscow-region hotel. “On this very day, we are in a position to take stock of past mistakes and act differently,” he said.
With a parliament now dominated by Kremlin-friendly parties, Russia’s liberals have found themselves marginalized. Yabloko and SPS, the two main democratic parties to emerge after the collapse of the Soviet Union, lost their State Duma representation in 2007 after failing to garner at least 7 percent of the vote.
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Mr. Kasparov,
Return to your old game (chess) in which you excel and which gave you world-wide fame. It is not yet too late. Why are you risking your life and limb? Think of what happened to prominent dissidents recently in your country!
A well-wisher
Kasparov’s attempts to return some of Putin’s now dictatorial powers to the Russian people have been ineffective, in terms of short-term tangible results.
But that is not the point.
The point is that Kasparov’s efforts shine light on the complacent Russian populace that has been offered a way to stand together and stand up for themselves, but which has conspicuously decided to not do so.
To those around the world who know little or nothing of how Putin, a complete nobody, suddenly became the leader of Russia, it is a facinating and disturbing story.
I think Kasparov is waisting his breath over there in russia. I wonder why he stays there. The people there simply are uneducated and the government corrupt….so….I get it that he’s trying to help..but whats the point when a population simply chooses to follow this ridiculous stuff…..they are what they deserve to be I guess.
Hey….look at the USA!
I can’t beleive they voted for that monkey 2!!!! times in a row….
Hahahaha
from Canada
Look at Canada….
HaHaHaHa
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Comrades, the booger on my finger will stay until the communists resign and I will reign as supreme chess god of Russia.