Garry Kasparov during his recent visit to Milan participated in the conference "Against the Tsar of gas" organized by "Annaviva" and presented his latest book "Kasparov-rest of the world." "It is difficult to explain to the citizens of a free country as terror is the main weapon of a dictatorship. One must be careful not to resort to making false comparisons, in Russia today there are the mass repressions of Stalin, is not confined to psychiatric hospitals. Anna Politkovskaya has not only fought against the regime but against the fear of the regime. The foreign reporters who are asking why in the demonstrations against the regime in Russian cities the protesters are so few, but clearly that can not be the same number of protesters in western countries and even a few thousand people are an expression of maturity. In the last months of his life Politkovskaya has expressed the idea that there could have been a different Russia and also believed that to get people with ideas could have raised together. Belonged to those people who could be stopped only by death, and this happened on his birthday.
The problem of democratic countries you do not realize they have to do with a non-democratic country when dealing with Russia, a feudal regime focused on loyalty to the president, can not connect it to the previous regimes. The main problem for Democrats is to understand how Russians could change the current situation and to do this outside support is crucial, however, are not statements of Western leaders on democratization, is that countries that do business with Russia to stop pretending that situation when in fact it is not democratic at all. What they perceive the Russians who are fighting for democracy is that it revolves around the problem but not resolved. We are not asking the West to cease doing business with Russia but to recognize that we are not dealing with a democracy, as is being done with Iran, a nuclear Iran financed by Russian money. Putin has a key role because it is the guarantor of the economic importance to Russia, many European politicians are, unfortunately, on the payroll of Gazprom, as former German Chancellor Gerhard Shroeder (Nord Stream). Our commitment is time to say these things to people and show how deep the dictatorship has arrived, so later we will be able to do so the higher the price. We know how Putin is acting within the country, we should not expect them to behave differently outside. Any international problem is resolved with an agreement on price and whether the agreement is not found is an attack against him. The degeneration in the last period in relations with Great Britain is due, as in the case of the United States, greater transparency of these reports. We must then remove from the minds of politicians and to all the absurd idea that Europe is dominated by the Russian gas! The money is the only way for Putin to maintain power and the idea that it can turn off the taps is just a ploy, has no foundation, the only possible market is with Europe. "(Garry Kasparov)
Garry Kasparov (Baku, Azerbaijan, 1963) was the world chess champion 1985 to 2000, interested in politics helped found the Democratic Party in 1990 and 1996 supports the candidacy of Boris Yeltsin for president. Log in politics in the first person in 2005 to "restore democracy" in Russia in open opposition to Vladimir Putin, president since 1999. He became the greatest exponent of the opposition forces for his efforts in organizing protest marches in which thousands of people taking part in September 2007 is a candidate to lead the democratic coalition "The Other Russia" in the presidential election in March 2008 and is voted by a large majority in December but is excluded from the election after being previously arrested for organizing an unauthorized demonstration.
Alessandro Zunino
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