Putin's dates are numbered? That must be in his little red book!

not chess, not interested

We shouldn´t forget that Kasparov has got some award for his activities for the defence of United States and its "values" around the world long time ago and still does, so in other words he supports the interests of the USA, which is without a doubt a direct strategical enemy of the Russian country. Simple conclusion: he is a traitor to the Russian nation and his actions aim at the destabilisation of the Russian country.

A country with not enough developed institutions, due to whatever historic reason, is always submitted to the pressure of two antagonist forces: 1) The one coming from some internal elite government, 2) The one coming from external dominant interests. Because of the long term past exception regime, the majority of the population of such Country was not able to develop its democratic self-defensive institutions. So that population will rely on the paternalist care of one or another of the a.m. dominant forces, until it finally can emerge to freedom. It took centuries to my Country to achieve this milestone, now we can kick some 1st. World asses... So who is best now for Russia? Putin's or Kasparov's dominant groups?? You have to choose now.

Kasparov does his country a great service by denouncing the systemic corruption, the worst cancer in any society. But I'd think the Russians should really set about developing a political culture and parties, with leaders discussing concrete socio-economical problems and reforms (e.g. tax levels, judicial transparency, political appointments, petiotioning, rather than merely bashing Putin. For the moment it is just too easy for him to point at the opposition's emptiness,

Kasparov for President? He's used of sacrificing lots of pieces! He will do it to humans!

Karpov doesn't like Kasparov's politics.

i think cv posts this articles for the stupid comments. soon, it will be like a yahoo message board. but!, whatever gets people here i guess

It is very dispointing to say "american values", the values are universal (except if you are talking about cowboy values) ;)

The cool difference between Chessbase and Chessvibes is that Peter allows comments.

Chessbase will give you all sorts of politically correct brainwashing from Kasparov's political adventures to women's lib, but people can't speak their mind. That's why I don't go there anymore, which is a shame, because sometimes they have nice stuff.

But if kasparov's adventures are posted, for which a case can be made as he is our 13th World Champion and a totally brilliant one at that, then it is good that people can speak their mind, so that we are not relegated to the illusion of hero worship.

Thanks Peter, I don't think you care much for my 'political' comments, but you serve the public by managing the discourse in terms of civil correctness, and not political correctness.

Hats off.

Kasparov out!!

There were huge protests in Moscow denouncing Putin. It is a police state, so speaking out only leads to trouble.

"why foreign western powers all of a sudden are so interested in well being of Russia and russian people ?"

Putin doesn't get better or worse depending on what people in other countries think of him, you could say the same thing about North Korea and claim that no one in the West cares about the North Koreans so the North Koreans must support the most authoritarian leader (in case they had an alternative). What matters is what there is to like or not to like, just like people all over the world debates Bush and Obama not just with the intention of having America fall apart by supporting the leader that is worst for the Americans.