Not the first year to the famous Russian chess player and opposition is charged with a scandalous appeal to NATO countries. We checked whether Harry Kasparov said like this.

According to many publications, in 2011, the ex-champion of the world of chess Harry Kasparov (at that time is the leader of the opposition movement “Solidarity”), speaking in Washington at the conference “Risks of rebooting”, called against Russia from the position of power. He allegedly called the experience of establishing democracy with the help of military intervention and, in particular, by “humanitarian” bombing. The fact that Kasparov "called on the West to bomb Russia" at one time wrote such resources as "Military Review","Information messages agency" Oper.ru, Noname, Amic.ru, "Picabu" And Kaniv.net, users in social networks (Facebook, "Living magazine"). In May 2023, the famous blogger Stas Ai is how simple (Stas Vasiliev) in his Telegram channel reminded of this case as part of a dispute with the user Harry Kasparov. The last publication at the time of writing the material was read about 266,000 people.

The 13th world chess champion Harry Kasparov divorced in his views with the current Russian authorities in the early 2000s, a short time after the election of Vladimir Putin by the President of Russia. In 2001, he signed Letter in defense of the NTV channel, in 2003, together with other famous figures He called stop the war in Chechnya, subsequently headed the committee he created "2008 - Free choice"And movement"United Civil Front", And in 2007 he was even nominated candidate In the President of the Russian Federation from the opposition coalition "Other Russia". However, he never received official registration as a candidate - according to the opposition, due to mass failures to lease him a large premises for the required law Congress. Nevertheless, Kasparov continued active political activity. Indeed, October 25, 2011 He performed At the conference “Risks of rebooting: why Washington should be careful with Moscow”, organized by the analytical center “Heritage Foundation” in the American capital. The full text of his speech, including answers to questions, is available In English On the website of the "Foundation" Heritage ".

In one of the episodes of his speech, Kasparov touched the methods of counteracting the policy of Vladimir Putin. In particular, he said: “A hard rebuff and the establishment of a firm, even confrontation line is the only message to which the Putin regime will respond. They respect only strength. All these conversations that the involvement [in world processes] slowly changes Russia was refuted. Twenty years ago, it was expected that Russia would ultimately cross the manners of the West, but now it is clear that the opposite happened. The countries dealing with Russia again and again adapted to corruption practice, institutionalized by Putin. As I already said in my speech in Congress last June, the system is not corrupt; Corruption is the system itself. So, if you are going to pursue these guys, you will have to use banks, not tanks. Hit through their wallets, because this is what worries them. ” In the conclusion, Kasparov emphasized that the United States needs to be carried out “rebooting that supports the Russian people, and not its oppressors” and “make this difference clear”.

Thus, Harry Kasparov, speaking of pressure measures on Russian power, emphasized that they should be peaceful, economic. This directly contradicts the text that spreads on the Internet. As shown by a search on the Internet, for the first time a similar text I went out On the Infox.ru information portal two days after the conference, October 27, 2011, the authorship of a certain Nikolai Petrov. Note that the full transcript of Kasparov's performance was Available On The Other Russia on October 26 on the website. A month later, when the material was dispersed by many media, Kasparov filed a lawsuit to the Ostankino District Court of Moscow to publish Infox.ru about the protection of honor and dignity. 20 February 2012 Court Approved The settlement between the parties, and after another week, the leadership of the site infox.ru published refutation Under the article that caused the scandal: “The editors of the Infox.ru information portal admits that the material published on the Infox.ru portal on October 27, 2011“ Kasparov called on the war with Russia ”is biased and contains defamatory Harry Kimovich Kasparov that he was calling for war with Russia.”

Thus, already at the beginning of 2012, the issue of quote by Harry Kasparov was closed, but in the future it did not prevent interested or simply inattentive people and the media to distribute it. Note that the last loud case (with a blogger Stas Ai is as simple) was marked by double embarrassment. As another famous blogger rightly noted, Ilya Shepelin, all his absentee dialogue on the eyes of a thousands of audience, including an accusation based on an inaccurate quote, the blogger did not conduct the present Harry Kasparov. In his official verified twitter, an opposition politician earlier Reportedthat his only real account in Telegram is Garrykasparov_official, and all the rest are fake.

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