The Other Russia

The man who would checkmate Vladimir Putin.
OpinionJournal:

"As the longtime world chess champion, Garry Kasparov was a famously aggressive player. His latest game is politics, and his style is equally aggressive. 'Our goal is to dismantle the regime,' he says, speaking of the political coalition he leads to bring down Vladimir Putin.

Mr. Kasparov's Putin antipathy is well known to readers of this newspaper, of which he is a contributing editor. 'I Was Wrong About Putin,' was the headline on his Jan. 9, 2001, op-ed article for this page. One year into Mr. Putin's presidency, Mr. Kasparov sounded an early warning about a man whose 'KGB roots have informed a style of governance that is neither reformist nor particularly democratic.' Since then, Mr. Kasparov has scarcely let up, retiring from chess in March 2005 in part to devote himself to politics." Continue.