2007-04-15
Kasparov arrested for political action
Expect many chess-related puns from sub-editors around the world.
More seriously, Russia is rapidly becoming the world's greatest threat again.
Putin has presided over a degradation of civil rights which is as shocking as it is sudden.
Journalists are murdered, votes are rigged, power is centralized.
I don't know which is scarier: that Putin has a grand plan for which he will need all this power; or that Putin wants power for its own sake, and will leave a Stalinesque legacy when he's finally removed.
Who could have thought Yeltsin's successor would actually make things worse?
I can only wish luck and popularity to the opposition in Russia.
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