Garry Kasparov gearresteerd.

Weer arrestaties oppositie Rusland

In Sint Petersburg zijn tientallen
leden van de oppositie opgepakt,die
een protestbijeenkomst wilden houden.De
politie greep in toen enkele betogers
spandoeken uitrolden van de verboden
Bolsjewistische Partij.

In Moskou is gisteren Garri Kasparov
opgepakt.De oud-wereldkampioen schaken
is de voorman van de coalitie Ander
Rusland.Hij heeft vijf dagen huisarrest
gekregen voor het organiseren van een
verboden betoging.

Op 2 december kiest Rusland een nieuw
parlement.De oppositie klaagt dat ze
geen eerlijke kans krijgt en dat er in
feite niets te kiezen valt.

Ze moesten rennen voor de politie. Er was zelfs een paard dat over een loper sprong.

Kasparov's political involvement started in the 1980s. He joined the CPSU in 1984, and in 1987 was elected to the Central Committee of Komsomol. In 1990, however, he left the party, and in May of that year took part in the creation of the Democratic Party of Russia. In June 1993, Kasparov was involved in the creation of the "Choice of Russia" bloc of parties, and in 1996 he took part in the election campaign of Boris Yeltsin. In 2001 he voiced his support for the Russian television TV channel NTV.[13]

After his retirement from chess in 2005, Kasparov turned to politics and created the United Civil Front, a social movement whose main goal is to "work to preserve electoral democracy in Russia."[14] He has vowed to "restore democracy" to Russia by toppling the elected Russian president Vladimir Putin, of whom he is an outspoken critic.[15][16][17]

Kasparov was instrumental in setting up The Other Russia, a coalition including Kasparov's United Civil Front, Eduard Limonov's National Bolshevik Party, Vladimir Ryzhkov's Russian Republican Party and other organizations which oppose the government of Vladimir Putin. The Other Russia has been boycotted by the leaders of Russia's democratic opposition parties, Yabloko and Union of Right Forces as they are concerned about the inclusion of radical nationalist and left-wing groups in its ranks, such as the National Bolshevik Party and former members of the Rodina party, including Viktor Gerashchenko, a potential presidential candidate. However, regional branches of Yabloko and the Union of Right Forces have opted to take part in the coalition. Kasparov says that leaders of these parties are controlled by Kremlin,[18] despite the fact they are both strongly opposed to the president's policies.

On April 10, 2005, Kasparov was in Moscow at a promotional event when he was struck over the head with a chessboard he had just signed. The assailant was reported to have said "I admired you as a chess player, but you gave that up for politics" immediately before the attack.[19] Kasparov has been the subject of a number of other episodes since.[20][21]

Kasparov helped organize the Saint Petersburg Dissenters' March on March 3, 2007 and The March of the Dissenters on March 24, 2007, both involving several thousand people rallying against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saint Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko's policies. [22][23]. On April 14, he was briefly arrested by the Moscow police while heading for a demonstration. He was held for some 10 hours, and then fined and released.[24]

He was summoned by FSB for questioning as a suspect in violations of Russian anti-extremism laws.[25] This law was previously applied for the conviction of Boris Stomakhin [26][27]

Speaking about Kasparov, former KGB general Oleg Kalugin has remarked: "I do not talk in details—people who knew them are all dead now because they were vocal, they were open. I am quiet. There is only one man who is vocal, and he may be in trouble: [former] world chess champion [Garry] Kasparov. He has been very outspoken in his attacks on Putin, and I believe that he is probably next on the list." [28]

In 1991, he received the Keeper of the Flame award from the Center for Security Policy (a US think tank), for anti-Communist resistance and the propagation of democracy. Notably, Kasparov was an exception amongst the recipients of the award since it is given to "individuals for devoting their public careers to the defense of the United States and American values around the world".

In April, 2007 it was asserted[29] that Garry Kasparov was a board member of the National Security Advisory Council of Center for Security Policy[30], a "non-profit, non-partisan national security organization that specializes in identifying policies, actions, and resource needs that are vital to American security"[31]. Kasparov confirmed this and added that he was removed shortly after he became aware of it. He noted that he didn't know about the membership and suggested he was included in the board by an accident because he received the 1991 Keeper of the Flame award from this organization.[32].[33] However, Kasparov maintained his association with the neoconservative leadership by giving speeches at think tanks such as the Hoover Institute[34]

In October 2007, Kasparov announced his intention of standing for the Russian presidency as the candidate of the "Other Russia" coalition, and vowed to fight for a "democratic and just Russia". Later that month he traveled to the United States, where he appeared on several popular television programs, which were hosted by Stephen Colbert, Wolf Blitzer, Bill Maher, and Chris Matthews.

In November 2007, Kasparov and other critics of President Putin were detained by Russian police at an Other Russia rally in Moscow. This followed an attempt by protesters to march on the electoral commission, which had barred Other Russia candidates from parliamentary elections.[35]

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Op zondag 25 november 2007 12:54 schreef Casparovvv het volgende:
Hier in Zim is het 't zelfde verhaal

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