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The regime is in trouble economically and can no longer offer anything to its citizens. That's why [Vladimir] Putin has to pursue an aggressive foreign policy, so he can serve his people the fairy tale of Russian pride and regaining its strength as a major power.

Garry Kasparov

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Garry Kasparov
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: April 13
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Right, left, Greens, Baathists, whatever: it comes down to grabbing and holding power and using ideology - or religion, race - as a justification.
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Losing can persuade you to change what doesn't need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if you are on the brink of disaster.
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Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from which one can begin to grasp the secrets of chess.
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More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people.
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We have a saying that a stranger's soul is like a black box. Which is why I would not want to analyze [Vladimir] Putin's psychological motivations.
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If you're already in a fight, you want the first blow to be the last and you had better be the one to throw it.
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I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia.
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Of course, if people do not want to do any work then it is better to start the game from a random position.
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It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.
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Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.
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Vladimir Putin mainly has friends in Europe among the extreme right, such as Marine Le Pen's Front National in France.
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I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.
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You know, if I'm in a bad mood, I always look at the chessboard, just to find something that can cheer me up.
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The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.
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By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion
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