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Kasparov: Russia's white knight?

Once the best chess player in the world, Garry Kasparov has turned his strategic genius to restoring democracy in Russia. Paul Dalgarno hears why Vladimir Putin has reason to fear the grandmaster

SINCE retiring from professional chess in 2005, Garry Kasparov has been festering like a thorn in the Kremlin's side. His is the strategy behind Other Russia, a coalition of disparate political groupsbentonsecuringfairelectionsinanincreasingly centralised state.