1.0 link 75793 <![CDATA[Garry Kasparov on Ayatollah Putin]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-gardels/garry-kasparov-on-ayatoll_b_75793.html I thought the days were long gone when I would publish Russian dissidents in my global newspaper network, as I did 25 years ago, but apparently not. Here, chess champion Garry Kasparov takes a penetrating swipe at Vladimir Putin's managed democracy.

MOSCOW -- The meaning of last Sunday's Russian parliamentary elections is not to be found in the results. There was never any doubt that President Vladimir Putin's ruling United Russia party would take an overwhelming majority. United Russia, with the...

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