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Kasparov on Putin
Garry Kasparov, former world chess champion, published an an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today.
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Kasparov, a leader of the Other Russia Coalition, a group dedicated to a democratic, free Russia, was jailed this past week for "disobeying the orders of a police officer."
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"For years the governments of the U.S. and Europe have tried to accept Vladimir Putin's Russia as an equal. Western diplomats now acknowledge that there are differences between Russia and the West, but say these differences are minor, and--in the words of one European Union official--within an "acceptable range."
For me and for a dozen of my associates last week, that "acceptable range" was 120 square feet. That's the size of the jail cell I occupied for five days as punishment for "disobeying the orders of a police officer" at an opposition rally in Moscow last Saturday. That's the charge a Moscow district court added after the fact, a charge not mentioned in the handwritten testimony of the arresting officers."
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Kasparov's take on Putin's Russia is interesting, yet frightening. One could assert that it is only a matter of a few years until Putin re-establishes a Soviet-esque socialist regime.
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-Matt Hittle
Posted at 04:14PM Dec 02, 2007 by College Republicans in Foreign Policy | Comments[0]
