Kasparov vs. Putin

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To Kasparov, Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime is "fascism", dismantling Russian democracy with the support of a supine West, which is interested only in stability in the East...

"[It is vital] to make sure there is no G7 meeting in Moscow in 2006. It will be like the Berlin Olympics in 1936, it will be the equivalent of Munich 1938, integrating Putin's Russia. The democracies are conceding to a brutal dictator. He has abolished the nature of democratic institutions. He will go further." ...

Kasparov said the Yukos sale was "the greatest robbery of the 21st Century"...

But monitors from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe criticised the presidential election and earlier elections to the Duma...