“An honor that says more about Putin’s fascist regime than it does about me,” Kasparov wrote about the decision. Image: dpa
Since his retirement from chess, Kasparov has devoted himself to working in the Russian opposition – first in Russia, later from exile. He is one of President Putin’s harshest critics.
Russia’s financial regulator has added former world chess champion Garry Kasparov to its list of “terrorists and extremists.” This is reported by the AFP news agency. Kasparov is an active political activist and is one of the harshest critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“An honor that says more about Putin’s fascist regime than about me,” wrote Kasparov, who was born in 1963 in Baku, the capital of the then Azerbaijan Soviet Republic, in a reaction to X. In 2005, the 60-year-old retired from chess as world number one withdrawn.
Since his withdrawal, he has dedicated himself with a lot of passion and against much resistance to working in the Russian opposition, first in Russia and later from exile. Kasparov has been chairman of the International Council of the Human Rights Foundation since 2012 and lives with his family in New York.
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Since the death of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, the Putin regime has fallen into even greater disrepute because of its treatment of opposition figures.