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We are living in a new ice age, and we need to apply the recipes of the Cold War to the Kremlin. That means isolation instead of offers of negotiation. And Ukraine should have been supplied with weapons long ago.

Garry Kasparov

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Garry Kasparov
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: April 13
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