The Free Choice 2008 Committee is an entity chaired by chess champion Garry Kasparov and dedicated to an unconditional adherence to fundamental democratic values recognized by the modern civilized world. Chess is a recreational and competitive Game played between two players. Garry Kasparov (Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров) (born as Garry Kimovich Weinstein on April 13 1963 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet
To this end they have issued a declaration protesting what they see as a drift toward autocracy by the presidential regime of Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (; born 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, USSR; now Saint Petersburg, Russia was the second President of Russia
. . . the presidential regime has reduced both chambers of the Russian parliament to the condition of puppets, and has turned the prosecutor’s office and court into an instrument of blackmail and political repressions. For the sake of power the Kremlin has trampled the principle of inviolability of private property, imposed illegal taxes on business, and divided entrepreneurs into "bad" and "good" depending on their submission and readiness to support the president’s political projects.
--From the Declaration
External links
- Declaration of the Committee «2008 Free Choice» from The Chechen Times
- Liberal Group Seeks Democrat for 2008 from The St. Petersburg Times
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