Winter is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must be Stopped.by Garry KasparovPublic Affairs, 2015, 291+xxviii pp., $26.99
Few are more qualified to testify to the sheer arbitrary power of Vladimir Putin’s political machine than Garry Kasparov. Long-time world chess champion, Kasparov was a huge celebrity in Russia and throughout the former Soviet Union (he was born in Soviet Azerbaijan). His decision to publicly challenge the Putin machine after the Beslan school massacre of early September 2004 alarmed the Kremlin, which feared that Kasparov’s huge name recognition might translate into a plausible presidential campaign to succeed …read more
Source: The American Interest
