Garry Kasparov

Putin ‘only understands force:’ Russian chess legend

Garry Kasparov, 60, blamed the Kremlin for the death in prison last month of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and said it marked a new low in Putin’s crackdown on dissent
Kasparov, widely viewed as one of the world’s greatest chess players, retired from chess in 2005 to focus on political activism and has lived in exile in New York for the past decade

By AFP · 12 March 2024