Mick Norris wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 12:53 pmPete Doggers
Karpov was one of the 351 members of the State Duma voting in favor of the recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) and the Luhansk People's Republic (LNR). Karpov yesterday emerged on the European Union's list of individuals and legal entities that sanctions were imposed on. The EU sanctions include a freeze of assets of these persons on the territory of the EU as well as blocking them from traveling into the EU.
Has Kasparov said much yet (I am sure he must have done).
Kasparov's views mentioned here:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ia-ukraine
And an article on Putin's irrationality:Jonathan Freedland in 'The Guardian' wrote:Putin had hardly kept his worldview secret until now. On the contrary, he had acted on it at least three times in the past 15 years, each time paying little price. He seized a chunk of Georgia in 2008 and of Ukraine in 2014, to say nothing of his decision to adopt the Assad regime’s murderous war against the Syrian people as his own a year later. We may have forgotten about all that – the Russian dissident Garry Kasparov laments the “amnesia of the west” – but Putin had not. He noted the western shrug that greeted his annexation of Crimea: how, just four years later, Russia was cheerfully hosting the football World Cup.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... atic-image