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According to Kremlin critic and former world champion Garry Kasparov, a victory for Ukraine would mean the collapse of Vladimir Putin’s regime. That in turn would pave the way for a new Russia, he told the American magazine Newsweek.

“I’m sure Russia will get smaller in the next five years,” he said. The Russian opposition member thinks that republics such as Tatarstan, which is already very independent, and Bashkortostan, which is rich in resources, would split off. He also sees this possibility for Chechnya. The country is currently ruled by a close confidant of Putin, Ramzan Kadyrov.

Member of anti-Putin diaspora

Kasparov went down in history as the Soviet world chess champion, but is now active in the opposition. Three months after the outbreak of war, he co-founded the Russian Action Committee with exiled Russian businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

The aim of the group is to build cooperation between the Russian anti-Putin diaspora and Western organizations and governments.

Kasparov believes in a continuation of a decline that began long ago. “The process was halted in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I think the collapse of the Russian ’empire’ is imminent,” the Kremlin critic said. But the question is whether the free world is able to help the forces within Russia ally with a “Euro-Atlantic civilization”. “Or is it getting out of hand?”

That is why arms deliveries and a quick victory for Ukraine are also important. There are still forces in the Russian government that could set up a new system. He thinks of a parliamentary republic or a loose federation. “But we have to start over.”

Kasparov recently said in an interview with t-online: “Putin’s regime is criminal and needs to be liquidated. It’s all there. That’s a big step forward.” He had already predicted the end of Putin’s regime for this year.

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