god save Kasparov

This certainly is bad news for Kasparov. Of course it's completely understandable resisting being manhandled by state maffia thugs, be they russian or western.

There was a fight. There is also a bite: kasparov admits to that indirectly by saying it may a be dogbite. I don't care, there were four big men messing him up, these pigs like their state 'monopoly' on violence and they like to bring people down, that's why they work for the state.

So now Putin has got something on him. On the other hand: he may not want to press kasparov to hard on a small thing, it could blow up in his face.

I wonder what Kramnik thinks about this...

Oh chessvibes you are such a tease. I'm sure Kasparov gets away with it. But if he really bit an officer I defenitely hope he gets jailed.

It is an absolute abomination that the West stands by and lets Putin establish a dictatorship without any pressure at all.

Kasparov is an animal, you can hear him screaming and fighting while in the van. I do believe he bit the officer in self-defence. Probably wouldn't hold up in court but that's the law of nature when someone kicks you in the balls.

Common... Resisting arrest, violence towards police officers. Self defense? WHAT self defense? They are arresting you, and they are allowed to use force when you resist arrest. And most certainly when you bite when being arrested. Or did you forget what a police man stands for?

But why on earth did he put up all this resistance? Did he really expect to wrestle these guys down and escape from that van? Or didn't he mind a little bruise he could show afterwards? Maybe he got carried away a bit by the whole atmosphere there...

They are allowed to arrest someone who is quitely giving an interview in a public street? Maybe in southafrica or in the u.s.a. if that someone is a nigg@, even though... I'm not sure.

Unbelievable that people accept these kind of human rights violations by their government. Freedom of speech doen't exist in Russia. Scary country.

I wouldn't play at Olympiad being a russian chess player.

If the video is cut, there must be something else going on that the editors don't want us to see... Nobody got the uncut version so we can freely make up our mind

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How about. : the camera stood in front of someone ?

this is the perfect machine of a dictatorship and putin uses democratic camouflage.

four radical thugs get at kasparov, force him down onto the street, almost under the bus - anybody who does not see that this is violence against citizens in the name of the state has got a serious misunderstanding of democracy.

maybe kasparov tried to protect himself and now this is the big problem. he could just as well have moved his little finger - technocrats and civil servants would always find a paragraph to make a criminal out of a victim.

however, this is the well-known practice of nationalistic right-wing states, like italy or germany to just name a few, not to mention the situation of julian assange.

putin is the the thuggish type of oppression practised these days throughout europe in a more elaborate way.

one should not forget that the conservative government in england threatened to use violence against foreign territory to get at a man against whom there is NO OFFICIAL charge. sweden only wants "to talk" to him.

had putin acted like the conservative british government there would have been an outrage!

putin is in a very obvious way a dictator and has russia turned into a dictatorship in democratic camouflage.

Everybody knows that and nobody does anything against it.
I have still got the happy faces of anand and gelfand in front of my mental eye when they met putin a shook hand with the very person who has been known as a cruel and reckless bully.

proud we all were to have tournaments next to the kremlin (ho ho!!!!) where the man sits who supports the Syrian killer.

we should be proud of kasparov!!

" this is the well-known practice of nationalistic right-wing states "

might also be a well known pratice of dumb ass activists !