Chess legend Kasparov Putin attack front… “Restrict your entourage”

Garry Kasparov, a former world chess champion. He recently opposes Alexei Navalni’s detention and is on the verge of criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin. [로이터=연합뉴스]

Gari Kasparov, 58, a former world chess champion, criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin. After questioning the attempted poisoning and detention of the Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalni, 45, he urged British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to sanction the “Chin Putin” character.

The British Guardian reported on the 27th (local time) that Kasparov asked Prime Minister Johnson to “impose economic sanctions on his close associates.” In an interview with the Guardian, he told the Guardian, “The UK is in a unique position to fight Putin’s inner forces. There is currently no one in Russia who can speak to the Kremlin.

Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalni, who is regarded as a staple of Russian President Vladimir Putin. [모스크바 AFP=연합뉴스]

Kasparov’s targets for sanctions are those who are classified as’Putin’ among the wealthy Russians called’Oligarhi’. Oligarch is the Russian expression of oligarch, meaning oligarchy (domination by minorities) in ancient Greece. After the collapse of the Soviet Union (the Soviet Union) in 1991, they gained enormous gains by acquiring a bargain company in the process of privatizing major state-owned industries. In this process, canonical collusion was rampant. Some of them have been purged by Putin, who is pursuing reforms, but some have survived and exert great influence in Russian politics and economy.

On the 27th, Russian opposition lawmakers demanded sanctions from the UK against the eight Oligarchs Nabalni has been pointing out for years. These include Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea’s professional football in England, and Alisher Usmanov, the majority shareholder of Arsenal.

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovic is considered’Chin Putin’ Oligarhi. [EPA=연합뉴스]

In October of last year, the European Union imposed a ban on entry to the EU and freeze assets on six senior Russian officials suspected of being involved in an attempt to assassinate Navalni. It also banned the provision of funds to them. The targets for the action included five officials called the “Putinpa”, including Alexander Bortnikov, the head of the Russian Federation of Federal Security Administration (FSB), the first vice president of the executive office of President Sergei Kiriyenko, and two deputy ministers of the Ministry of Defense. At this time, Britain also joined the sanctions.

Kasparov said, “As long as the money of the close associates (with connections in England) continues to flow into London, Putin power will not be disturbed.” In fact, according to a report released last year by the House Intelligence and Security Council (ISC), Russian money has flowed into the UK since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The report said, “Even if the money came in, there was hardly any request to prove the source. This is why Putin’s aide is easily entering British society.” Then, in the British politics, it was known that 14 cabinet members, including six ministers, received tens of thousands of pounds worth of political funds from pro-Russian companies.

Chess world champion Gary Kasparov also participated in a human vs computer chess match.

Kasparov was born in 1963 in Azerbaijan, Soviet Union. From a young age, he showed a natural talent for chess, and at the age of 10 he became a student of Russian chess champion Mikhail Botvinik. With the ability of Cheongchul Eo-ram, he held the world championship for 16 years from 1985 to 2000. After retiring in 2005, he entered the political world and held the Russian presidential election in 2007, but gave up halfway. Since then, he confessed, “I have fear of being poisoned because I have been criticizing Putin,” and then changed my nationality to Croatia in 2014.

Netflix series’Queen’s Gambit’ poster. This is the story of a chess prodigy raised in a nursery. [넷플릭스 제공]

He is also famous for consulting the famous Netflix series’Queen’s Gambit’. Queen’s Gambit, the story of a’Chess Prodigy’ who was raised in a nursery, was well received for saying “it reflected reality well.” “Soviet chess champions in the 1960s had to accompany the KGB (National Security Commission) when traveling with their families,” Kasparov said in an interview with the US media Slate.

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