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I certainly want to be involved in politics and help shape the transition. I am in contact with regime critics who had to leave for the West. One of them is Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former businessman, who had to endure 10 years in a prison camp.

Garry Kasparov

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