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Authorities in Russia have put former world chess champion and exiled opposition figure Garry Kasparov (60) on a terror list. His name was added to a list of “terrorists and extremists”, according to a note from Russian financial regulator Rosfinmonitoring, seen by AFP on Wednesday.
Born in 1963 in the then Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan, Kasparov was one of the greatest chess players of all time before becoming a bitter opponent of President Vladimir Putin (71). In 2013, he left Russia for the US, from where he continues to criticize Russian leadership and the military offensive in Ukraine.
Legendary duels between Kasparov and Karpov
In 2022, Kasparov was declared a “foreign agent” in Russia, a term for opposition figures, journalists and human rights activists that carries the strictest conditions from the authorities. Most of the opposition figures who remained in Russia are now imprisoned, the rest live in exile.
The duels between Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov, the other chess grandmaster of the Soviet Union, went down in history in the 1980s. Karpov supports Putin and is now a member of the Russian Duma for the United Russia presidential party. (AFP)
Source: Blick
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