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Russia Issues Arrest Warrant For Ex-Chess Champion Garry Kasparov (mirror.co.uk) 79

Longtime Slashdot reader ArchieBunker shares a report from The Mirror: The city court in Syktyvkar, the largest city in Russia's northwestern Komi region, announced it had arrested [former world chess champion Garry Kasparov] in absentia alongside former Russian parliament member Gennady Gudkov, Ivan Tyutrin co-founder of the Free Russia Forum -- which has been designated as an "undesirable organization in the country -- as well as former environmental activist Yevgenia Chirikova. All were charged with setting up a terrorist society, according to the court's press service. As all were charged in their absence, none were physically held in custody.

"The court has selected a measure of restraint for Garry Kasparov, Gennady Gudkov, Yevgenia Chirikova and Ivan Tyutrin, charged with establishing and heading a terrorist society, funding terrorist activity and justifying it publicly," the court said according to Kremlin-backed outlet TASS. "The court granted the investigative bodies' motions to remand Kasparov, Gudkov, Chirikova and Tyutrin in custody as a measure of restraint."

Kasparov responded to the court's bizarre arrest statement in an April 24 post shared on X, formerly Twitter. "In absentia is definitely the best way I've ever been arrested," he said. "Good company, as well. I'm sure we're all equally honored that Putin's terror state is spending time on this that would otherwise go persecuting and murdering."
The report notes that Kasparov "found himself in Russian President Vladimir Putin's firing line after he voiced his opposition to the country's leader." The report continues: "He has also pursued pro-democracy initiatives in Russia. But he felt unable to continue living in Russia after he was jailed and allegedly beaten by police in 2012, according to the Guardian. He was granted Croatian citizenship in 2014 following repeated difficulties in Russia."
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Russia Issues Arrest Warrant For Ex-Chess Champion Garry Kasparov

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  • He was at a conference I went to some years back, he was saying he lived in New York. I guess the Russians are going to have to get him via a CIA-style "extraordinary rendition" or Navalny-style diverting his flight .. or Uber.

    • by Valgrus Thunderaxe ( 8769977 ) on Monday April 29, 2024 @06:39PM (#64434260)
      Or polonium.
      • Yeah, it's funny how several of Putin's remote enemies have come down with cases of accidental polonium poisoning.

        • If there's such a thing as an polonium "antidote," I hope he carries several doses.

          • Re: (Score:3, Informative)

            If there's such a thing as a polonium "antidote,"

            Polonium is a radioactive actinide element with a half-life of 138 days. It is a very strong alpha emitter. It is chemically similar to selenium.

            The best antidote is an actinide chelating agent such as dimercapto-propanesulfonate (DMPS).

            But most victims don't even realize they've been injected until too much damage has already been done.

            I hope he carries several doses.

            Realistically, he doesn't need to worry about it. He isn't important enough for Putin to take risks to kill him.

            Kasparov is a kook. He's an advocate of the Phantom time cons [wikipedia.org]

            • by christoban ( 3028573 ) on Monday April 29, 2024 @08:00PM (#64434398)

              LOL everyone has their weird spots. I'm not sure how you can say he's a "kook" who is "not important enough" when he is at the head of Free Russian and Putin just put him on a hit list.

            • Realistically, he doesn't need to worry about it. He isn't important enough for Putin to take risks to kill him.

              He has every reason to worry. He's an internationally recognized news worthy figure, and therefore, absolutely the ideal candidate for a messy public long drawn-out assassination by someone everybody knows is responsible, though nobody can prove it. Putin risks nothing by killing him.

      • by ls671 ( 1122017 )

        Or polonium.

        Indeed, I didn't find his comments on the matter too smart. If I was him, I'd just shut up and be happy wherever I am. No point at all in teasing Putin with his comments on him IMHO.

    • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

      Or they could just rig an election and have Trump hand him over on a silver platter.
      • by ihavesaxwithcollies ( 10441708 ) on Monday April 29, 2024 @10:53PM (#64434626)

        Do you need me to draw you fucking retards a picture?

        Russia already meddled in one Trump election. Is it really a stretch for them to do it again?

        Trump has had Russian agents in his circle and did very pro-russian things while in office.

        I'm sorry a lot of you rubes voted for a Russian agent that is compromised and does Putin's bidding. Trump is a sell-out and a Russian agent.

        • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

          by drinkypoo ( 153816 )

          Trump is a sell-out and a Russian agent.

          Trump is not smart enough to be a Russian agent and actual Russian agents are not dumb enough to trust him with any damning information. Trump is a Russian asset (and Melania is his handler.)

  • by Tablizer ( 95088 ) on Monday April 29, 2024 @06:54PM (#64434278) Journal

    Gary, stay away from windows in tall buildings, don't take private aircraft, and test ALL your food on a hamster first.

  • Check.
  • Huh? (Score:4, Funny)

    by Black Parrot ( 19622 ) on Monday April 29, 2024 @07:00PM (#64434294)

    How do you arrest someone in absentia ?

    • Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)

      by dlleigh ( 313922 ) on Monday April 29, 2024 @07:02PM (#64434304)

      It's a head scratcher, isn't it. After they try him in absentia, maybe they'll imprison him in absentia and then execute him in absentia.

    • I suspect "arrest" is a mistranslation and that "indicted" or "charged" would be a more appropriate terms. But not nearly as interesting. You can now add Kasparov to the long list of Russians who have been "arrested" for criticizing Putin or the Russian government.
      • I suspect is a correct translation. With an arrest warrant issued, if he put a step on Russian jurisdiction, he will be arrested on the spot. The same if he goes to a country that has extradition accords with Russia. Just the same as International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant on Putin.

    • by Bob_Who ( 926234 )

      How do you arrest someone in absentia ?

      It begins for an absentee ballot for anyone alive except Putin.

    • Re: (Score:3, Informative)

      by Luckyo ( 1726890 )

      I went to read about this on Russian internet to see what this is about, here's a story about it:

      https://www.interfax.ru/russia... [interfax.ru]

      Apparently Russian Federation indeed has a concept of arrest in absentia. Story explains that this court order is for arrest of two months in absentia (literally "beyond sight" in Russian), which will be executed if Kasparov is arrested anywhere in Russian Federation, or extradited to Russian Federation.

      It's not just Kasparov. There are four names on the list of those arrested in

      • by vbdasc ( 146051 )

        Also story says that this decisions doesn't have the power of law yet, which suggests that it's being appealed.

        In post-Soviet Russia, it isn't safe for a lawyer to represent the interests of a people's enemy. Reference: Navalny's attorneys.

        • by Luckyo ( 1726890 )

          Sadly that's not a good measuring stick any more. Look at what happened to quite a few of Trump's attorneys.

    • by vbdasc ( 146051 )

      How do you arrest someone in absentia ?

      Arrest his effigy. For best effect, torture it with voudun.

    • Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)

      by billybob2001 ( 234675 ) on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @05:24AM (#64435116)

      How do you arrest someone in absentia ?

      Just think of it being like En Passant

    • by hawk ( 1151 )

      >How do you arrest someone in absentia ?

      "You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means."

  • Let's issue an arrest warrant against Putin.

    One day someone is going to assassinate his Hitler wannabe ass.

    Cue the orks.

    • Putin will probably go out like Stalin. Everyone will be too terrified to approach him that he'll die in agony because no one wants to incur his wrath by daring to check on him. Putting a bullet in his head is too kind.
      • Polonium would be perfect.

      • by Bob_Who ( 926234 )

        Putting a bullet in his head is too kind.

        You're right. He is sentenced to mortality.
        May he grow ever more feeble and irrelevant until some teenager on a skateboard no longer recognizes him on May Day.
        I hope he falls off his pony and nobody bothers to help him off the dung..
        Vlad the bad, Vlad the sad. Vlad kicked in the nads by his horsey.

        • by vbdasc ( 146051 )

          May he grow ever more feeble and irrelevant until some teenager on a skateboard no longer recognizes him on May Day.

          Nonsense. You should've seen Leonid Brezhnev around his last years. He looked as a reanimated corpse. Never underestimate Soviet gerontocracy.

      • by vbdasc ( 146051 )

        Stalin had persecuted, killed or put lots of medical professionals in GULAG before that (Google "Doctors' plot"). Putin hasn't done such a thing (yet).

    • Already happened [wikipedia.org], this is the reason Putin doesn't travel much outside Russia lately.

  • And he needs to watch out for Novichok.
    • by Bob_Who ( 926234 )

      And he needs to watch out for Novichok.

      I swear I keep thinking you're naming a gnarly hockey player...

  • They have consistently poor luck with their leaders. Mother Russia appears cruellest of all to her own children. I wonder if Russians like it hard and miserable, and whether they believe being nice and comfortable would make them weak or something?

    Russians, you really don't have to worry about us invading, we don't want to live in your country, I don't believe you do either.

    • They have consistently poor luck with their leaders. Mother Russia appears cruellest of all to her own children.

      Political leaders are not ET's - they are people, like everybody else. Countries tend to have the leaders and government that their citizens want and deserve. This is as true of Russia as it is of everywhere else. The Russian culture has always been impervious to modern concepts of democracy, freedom of thought and social justice, and things do not seem likely to change in that respect in the foreseeable future.

      • Your assumption is "Countries tend to have the leaders and government that their citizens want and deserve." Let's assume you mean a country is all the people that live there. Let's say the country is a democracy, with a right and left, like the US. At any one time roughly 50% of an electorate get a government they vote for, that once elected rarely achieves it's manifesto. I doubt the 50% got the government sold to them. And the electorate is not the whole country, only those who can vote.

        If it's not a dem

  • Vladimir Putin has just been assassinated in absentia!
  • How do you arrest someone in absentia?

    By definition "arrest" means to take someone into custody. Did they make life-size cardboard cutouts and arrest those?

    Or, is this just another aspect of Putin's fantastical thinking: that you can "arrest" someone with your mind? Did they also crush his head [i.cbc.ca]?
  • DIAF

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