Wow...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7110910.stm
so much for russian reforms, says he was beaten, very disturbing
"The city gave the organizers permission to hold the rally but forbid them to march to the Central Elections Commission."
"They moved in after the rally had ended and about 150 of the protesters, mainly Limonov's young activists, began to march toward the Central Elections Commission. "
"Kasparov had not joined the young protesters who had broken away from the crowd. He was detained after walking over to see what had happened to them."
"The former chess champion was forced to the ground and beaten, his assistant Marina Litvinovich said in a telephone interview from outside the police station where Kasparov was held."
Kasparov's arrestment (a photo from Russian site)
He was on Bill Maher a little while back talking about his campaign for the presidency among other things -- here's the interview:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1Z9g7jN3Kso
AFAIK, Kasparov isn't russian. He was born in Baku, so he is native Azerbaijanian, I think. What does he do in russian politics and why?
JFYI: Kasparov arrested for five days due to legal abuse.
note to StacyBearden:
I'm sure Kasparov will not be poisoned or shot. There is no need to kill a clown. He'd better play chess, not politics...
There's a list of the other "clowns" Putin and the other "former" KGB men have silenced. I don't know much about Kasparov's political leanings other than what I've seen on interviews and read on-line, but he's no Putin. And he's no communist. Kasparov is an intellectual. Putin is a thug. Russia would be lucky to have any clown in place of Putin and his criminal followers. By the way: Israel's security and mid-East diplomacy would have to benefit with Kasparov replacing Putin.
dio-gen,
Kasparov is a "clown" because you disagree with him?
There can never be too many opposition parties, for there is always the danger of a one-party system.
I agree that your critics should not pay attention to mass media, but perhaps you should not set so much store by what you "know" either. The elections probably were not faked, but then again there is the off-chance that they might have been. And since in this case it would have been you, the voters, who would have been hoodwinked, how can you be sure?
I don't know much about Kasparov's political leanings other than what I've seen on interviews and read on-line, but he's no Putin. And he's no communist. Kasparov is an intellectual. Putin is a thug. Russia would be lucky to have any clown in place of Putin and his criminal followers. By the way: Israel's security and mid-East diplomacy would have to benefit with Kasparov replacing Putin.
Wow!
You don't know anything about his political leanings but you make your conclusion that he would be good president.
Do you vote on USA presidential election the same way?
By the way: I think that russian president must take care of Russia's securuty, not Israel's one.
I don't know any specifics on his political leanings, I said, other than what I have read and seen. Read my post completely before you insult me ignorantly. And for Israel's security issue, Russia is being reported as having talks with Israel's enemies and supporting them against Israel. Since Israel is the only real ally to the West in the mid-East, their security should be an importance to every nation, Dio-gen. You should have learned from history that a nation's security, in part, relies on keeping its allies secure. That's just common foreign policy. It does strike me, and the rest of the world, that the current Russian government is not an ally of Israel. That puts Russia somewhat at odds with the West...and with God, for that matter. But that's for a whole different post.
Response to dio-gen: You are again deceived. I suppose you watch all the russian channels except RTVi. It's a pity, because all the other channels are censorized by the government (they can't say anything direct against Putin). I'm sure that you know why RTVi it's free from censor, if no i'll explain. Few years ago the russian government wanted to stop the broadcasting of the channel NTV, because the people there expressed their opinion against Putin (non-official reason). They nearly succeeded. An american businessman bought most of the stocks of this channel. It's name was changed to RTVi and now a big amount of broadcasting is from New York. Putin can do nothing because this channel is no longer under the jurisdiction of the russian government. Watch for example the program "Your opinion". They are going to talk a lot about this theme before the elections in russia (i hope this time the elections will be real).
When i said: "Many people were arrested during Putin's cadence, because they talked or acted against him" i ment people for whom the government can find formal pretext to arrest them. The government can't arrest people for whom there is no formal pretext, because they are afraid of public opinion and of press as i explained. For example, why were the oligarches jailed? the official reason is that they stole government money. When the Soviet-Union fell, people could buy huge factories for cheap cost (they were at the right place at the right time). For example, The oligarch who bought the oil company Yukas is now at jail. Several oligarches escaped from russia, because they knew they will be jailed for the same excuse- stealing government money.
As i said: "I don't know if Kasparov is a good leader", but i know for sure he's an intellectual who wants to promote russia towards real democracy. The fact that he passed from one party to another only stresses that he has different opinion from the other members of the party. By the way, according to the laws of a democratic country any person with this country citizenship can become a president, no matter what is his nationality.
If someone violates the law in a democratic country the police should stop him and bring him before court. They may use limited force to stop him, but they violate basic human rights if they beat him. Why the police had to beat Kasparov?, he's not young person and can't resist too much. The only reason is his dirrect challenge to Putin.
I'll improve your last sentence: Don't be naive, and don't trust censorized mass media.
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