Word: chess
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...events of the past week would be absurd but, tellingly, they did not shock many. President Putin, hiding in the Kremlin and protected by favorable public opinion, has had a crucial opponent arrested for taking part in a demonstration. The timing could not be better: With well-known chess grandmaster turned democracy advocate Gary Kasparov behind bars in the run up to the election, Putin had one less annoying figure to worry about. Kasparov, of course, knows that a rigged match cannot be won. But he has tried nonetheless, ignoring the arbitrary repercussions that would follow his political activism...
GARRY KASPAROV, former chess champion, on court proceedings after he was sentenced to five days in jail. Kasparov had been arrested after attempting to lead an unauthorized march against Russian President Vladimir Putin...
Garry Kasparov, a former chess champion and prominent Putin critic, was arrested last week and sentenced to five days in jail. Boris Nemtsov, a presidential contender and former deputy prime minister, was also detained...
...says Radomir Stojanovic, 67, whose children and grandchildren are still in Serbia proper. "So far, we are free and safe to be back here. But we are still worried." With Dani translating from Serbo-Croatian, Stojanovic tells me the question of Kosovo's independence is by now a chess match between Russia and the U.S., while Serbs and Albanians want the same things: peace and work. He tells how he used to work in a state-owned corner store, and knew all the Albanian residents. "I've known some of them since I was a kid, and we have always...
...been a choreographed farce from beginning to end.' GARRY KASPAROV, former chess champion, on court proceedings after he was sentenced to five days in jail in Moscow. Kasparov had been arrested after attempting to lead an unauthorized march against Russian President Vladimir Putin...