news.bbc.co.uk— The Russian opposition figure and former world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, will no longer contest the presidential election next March.
Dec 12, 2007View in Crawl 4
So the Kremlin forced him out of the race with its strongarm tactics. The implication of the article was clear that after arranging for their nomination meetings, the venue owners were leaned on to cancel the contracts - all mysteriously rescinded. This is an object lesson for the faltering democracy in the US as well, when one of the strongest, true grass-roots campaigns in recent memory is also being systematically suppressed.
tehoweDec 12, 2007
So the Kremlin forced him out of the race with its strongarm tactics. The implication of the article was clear that after arranging for their nomination meetings, the venue owners were leaned on to cancel the contracts - all mysteriously rescinded. This is an object lesson for the faltering democracy in the US as well, when one of the strongest, true grass-roots campaigns in recent memory is also being systematically suppressed.