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Sunday, November 25, 2007 

Chess champ arrested and beaten by Putin's neo-communist police

Gary Kasparov, a chess champion who's of Armenian-Jewish descent, was arrested at an anti-Putin rally in Russia and assaulted by police (via Gateway Pundit and Hot Air Headlines):
MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- Riot police on Saturday detained opposition protesters, including former chess champion Garry Kasparov, after an anti-Kremlin rally of a few thousand people in Moscow.

Kasparov was forced to the ground and beaten, his assistant Marina Litvinovich said in a telephone interview from outside the police station where he was being held.
From this BBC report, it sounds very easily like Putin, even when he steps down as official president, will continue to pull the strings of the candidate who steps in next, who'll likely be appointed in fixed elections, as I'm guessing will be what happens. They are on their way back to totalitarianism in Russia, and I wouldn't be surprised if their support of Iran becomes more apparent in years to follow.

I hope that Kasparov is okay. If he's released, he should clear out of there ASAP. Putin's gang is not one to be near.

Update: more on this at Hot Air.

Others on the subject include Say Anything, Riehl World View, Horrible Thoughts, A Brief History, Rob Hyndman, Ken McCracken.

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