Kasparov Seized by Russian Police
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thanks kingfisher...what you wrote makes alot of sense....I know for a fact that americans seriously lack world wide view of the world...they look thru a peep hole named "American TV"
All media is censored, some more than others. Is Russia shooting children for throwing rocks? Israel's brave IDF do. Maybe one should clean their own house before helping to clean the home's of others?
Even if you are great chess player you can be very stupid human. It stands fo Kasparov, for Fischer, for Alekhine ... .
All I know is that in most civilized countries you will be locked up for shooting children for throwing rocks. Soldiers are grown men, they cannot win a rock fight with kids, many of them only teens and pre-teens? Even if I take a belt to a child for throwing a rock at me I will probably be locked up , but there is one country where they shoot such children and people say nothing.
The Israeli soldiers never know if the children are throwing rocks or grenades.
kingfisher, you must becareful, you might be labled anti-semite. Thats what they do here in the US, if you have any opinion about israel other than favorable, you are anti semetic!!
some of you need a life, or a job, cuz if you have so much time to type all of this (unless you cut and paste) when do you play chess???
dio-gen, thanks for explaining the Russian election process from your perspective. It's hard to find the views of an "average citizen" from the news since of course they prefer to cover the more dramatic happenings. Based on your description and early news reports it seems like ballot-stuffing wasn't an big issue, at least in most districts.
European observers allege the elections were unfair because of:
- frequent abuse of administrative resources
- media coverage strongly in favour of the ruling party
In other words, the observers claim United Russia was shown on the state-run television more often and in a more favorable light. Also, they were able to use at least government resources to help with their campaign.
Do you disagree? If true, wouldn't you consider these barriers to a fair election? I'm not interested in a debate... I'm just curious about your views.
Dec 4, 2007
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I feared it would come to this. Brilliant sacrifice or a patzer's gaff? The aparat is comfortable ruthlessly dealing with threats. While you have to admire Kasparov's idealism, I think he made a mistake.
As they did not send an assassin, perhaps they will let him go soon? Please let it not be 20 years in Siberia.
I think this debate is not going to a conclusion. Apparently, the Russians want a dictator. I say let them have him, he's only dangerous in his own country.
Nobody was concerned when the Americans voted a dangerous idiot into office, whyshouldn't the Russians get equal treatment?
Thanks for the hyperlink.
Can somebody please tell me what exactly Putin has done wrong while in office? Russians are far better off now than they were before he was in office. Viva la Putin!
The vision of russians differs greatly from one of the democratic state. This is funny, but dio-gen doesn't understand, that every man must have equal rights. Putin is a worker, he got the job from you and other citizens of Russia to rule the country, but not to judge other people! Today we see that Russia comes back to Stalin's time - the TV, radio, newspapers are under Kremlin control, there is no real opposition in Russia. The "opposite" leaders - Zuganov and Girinovski serve Kremlin and make it stronger - they are really clowns. According the russian constitution, as I know, the president mustnt be russian, that because around 100 nations live there. Putin is really popular among the people because they hear only his voice as in communistic times. As a former KGB leader he has a power to control mass media as also all other sides of life.
No matter what the webmaster says, people find it irresistible to let their conversations stray to politics. The post was about a chess world champion, not a political activist in Russia.
Did LOOMIS order the arrest of KASPAROV?!?!
thank you 'tonightonly7'
i didn't post this with any intent of starting a debate. just figured kasparov has a lot of fans here and they would want to know about this. i thought it would spur folk's own research into the topic. I was surprised no one posted earlier so i took the liberty given to me by God and my hands.
I know thatit takes a great man to leave something that you are the best in the world in , and go and pursue something else from zero . For these efforts I applaud him
the more things change...the more they stay the same.
May 26, 2022
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I thought Garry was living the US? He sure was a smart guy at one time. Even made a book about Putin and warning everyone about him, but now he went back to Russia during their evil war in Ukraine, while Putin is still in charge? What in the world made him think... "hey this is a good move." ?