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On heritage and NFT: Challenging the meaning of legacy itself | Coin Telegraph | December 24, 2021

 

This article is a reprint. You can see the original HERE.

By Ariel Shapira

“In his monthly crypto tech column, Israeli serial entrepreneur Ariel Shapira covers emerging technologies within the crypto, decentralized finance (DeFi) and blockchain space, as well as their roles in shaping the economy of the 21st century.

When trying to examine the nonfungible token (NFT) economy as it has been shaping in recent months, two main trends can be discerned. On the one hand, a completely new market that allows various artists to join a new creator economy — the creators of Bored Ape Yacht Club, various types of pixel art creators and creative flickers such as the creator of long-necked women’s paintings, the sale of which brought the artist, only 12 years old, close to 1,394 Ether (ETH), equal at the time of writing $6 million.

But the truth is that an NFT is much more than that. Take, for example, one of the first significant NFT sales, when Jack Dorsey sold the first tweet that appeared on Twitter in exchange for an amount that was then worth about $2.9 million. This NFT gained value, but in fact, its very assimilation as an NFT preserved a kind of heritage.

The day Twitter goes down the web, or the outdated text platform disappears, like many sites that were part of the web’s annals and simply disappeared, the only things left will be those for which someone has created economic value, beyond the symbolic value. A unique value, which stands on its own, and which makes the preservation of tradition and heritage a sustainable operation.

Garry Kasparov does NFTs

Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion, the man who has held that title for more years than anyone else, has decided to turn his legacy digital, and turn extensive chapters of his past into an NFT.

“My NFT venture with 1Kind reflects my lifelong desire to take on new challenges and work with exciting new technologies,” says Kasparov. “From artificial intelligence to cryptocurrencies and the blockchain, I’ve always believed that innovation is the only way forward. We’ve worked together closely from the start to create not just unique items, but a completely new way of using NFTs to tell a story, one with real history behind it. ”

One of the interesting things about Kasparov is his interest in human-machine interfaces. Kasparov is perhaps the most famous chess player of all time, the youngest to win the world championship as well as the longest-reigning world chess champion of all time.

But, in fact, his matches against supercomputers bought him his worldwide fame. Kasparov has repeatedly won state-of-the-art chess computers, but his loss, in 1997, to IBM’s Deep Blue computer marked the watershed and symbolized the fact that artificial intelligence manages to match and even achieve human intelligence. On the symbolic level, it was precisely this loss that linked Kasparov’s fate to the development of the digital age.

Related:  Without quantum security, our blockchain future is uncertain

Now, with the NFT project that Kasparov is launching together with the 1Kind platform, he is once again shaking up basic concepts — of heritage, legacy and history. Kasparov seeks to create a digital presence for various chapters in his past, thus creating a legacy that does not depend on exhibits, display cabinets or history books. The objects, pictures and paintings depicting his past, he drops through NFTs, not to support some creator economy but like that Dorsey tweet, to preserve a legacy before it vanishes, and to bring in more people as interested in preserving that heritage. As Kasparov explains:

“This is the first time an entire life will be turned into NFTs — my life. I wanted to share not only my chess games and successes but everything that formed me and my legacy on and off the chessboard.”

A new chapter of heritage perseverance

To this day, to document a heritage, one needs unique books, museums or tours. But all of this requires massive, long-standing support — after all, a museum cannot own itself and needs the support of taxpayer money or unique funds. But when Kasparov makes his legacy public in the NFT, he is decentralizing the preservation of the heritage. He calls on collectors to take part not only in his legacy but also in its preservation. At the simplest level — if Kasparov himself disappears from human consciousness, even these heritage objects will lose their value. So that the interest of the person taking part in the sale becomes the same as that of Kasparov himself. Preserve the heritage and expose it to as many people as possible.

“The deeply personal nature of this project is apparent in every NFT. My family and childhood, my rise as a chess champion and conquest of the world title, and my explorations into politics, education, writing and speaking. Documents and artifacts never before seen by the public include my personal notebooks and family photos. The cast includes the coaches that shaped my chess, my fresh start with a new career and family after chess, and, through it all, my greatest champion from the very beginning, my mother.”

In practice, this is an interesting experiment. After all, this sale includes not only digital art, or representations of past moments, such as the Moments of the NBA, but also digital representations of real objects such as notebooks, cards, physical photographs from Kasparov’s past and others. That is, the buyer will have digital ownership of objects, which someone else may have physical ownership of.

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But in fact, it is possible that in the world we are heading towards, it is not clear who will have the more equal ownership — the one who holds a paper copy of a game card in the safe, or the one who holds the digital representation, which can be displayed to the world without fear of being damaged or gone. Kasparov himself also admits that this is no small challenge, but perhaps this is again his way of breaking down barriers and concepts, in the transition to the Web 3.0 era.

“I admit to being a little nervous, like sitting down in my first world championship match, playing against a supercomputer, or when I left behind the familiar world of chess to fight for democracy in Russia and beyond. But what are we without new challenges? Without taking risks? The status quo was never good enough for me, and in that spirit I’m delighted to share this ambitious and unmatched collection. I hope people would enjoy it and I can not wait to see what comes next,” says Kasparov.

This article does not contain investment advice or recommendations. Every investment and trading move involves risk, and readers should conduct their own research when making a decision.

The views, thoughts and opinions expressed here are the author’s alone and do not necessarily reflect or represent the views and opinions of Cointelegraph.

Ariel Shapira is a father, entrepreneur, speaker, cyclist and serves as founder and CEO of Social-Wisdom, a consulting agency working with Israeli startups and helping them to establish connections with international markets.”

The West Cannot Concede an Inch to Vladimir Putin | Globe and Mail | December 20, 2021

 

This article is a reprint. You can see the original HERE.

By Marcus Kolga

“Marcus Kolga is the founder of DisinfoWatch and a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and CDA Institute in Ottawa.

While world leaders gathered virtually this month to discuss the surge of authoritarianism in recent years, Ukraine is focused on defending its sovereignty and territory against more than 100,000 troops and heavy weapons that Russian President Vladimir Putin has mobilized along its borders.

While questions abound over whether this invasion-sized force will attack, Kremlin-supported separatists have already been shelling and firing at positions inside Ukraine every day, helping to advance Mr. Putin’s goal of transforming Ukraine into a compliant, autocratic vassal state like Alexander Lukashenko’s Belarus. Despite these efforts, Ukraine has withstood the Kremlin’s intimidation since 2014, when Russian forces invaded and illegally annexed Crimea.

Over the past 20 years, Mr. Putin has also demonstrated that diplomacy – in the form of concessions, deals or outright appeasement – only emboldens his authoritarian ambitions at home and neo-imperialism abroad. Costs in the form of sectoral and personal sanctions against the oligarchs who enable Mr. Putin and the projects they profit from, such as the Nord Stream gas pipeline, are immediate measures that can be taken to build long-term credible deterrence. Additional support in the form of military training and the supply of defensive weapons to Ukraine would also force Mr. Putin to recalculate the risk of invading his neighbour.

However, recent reports about Western leaders making potential concessions to Mr. Putin have raised concerns in Eastern European capitals and Ukraine. The U.S. is reportedly set to “press Ukraine to formally cede a measure of autonomy within its eastern Donbas region,” which would represent a victory for Mr. Putin: Any autonomy granted to parts of occupied Donbas would be quickly exploited by Moscow to annex that territory.

Meanwhile, General Wayne Eyre, Canada’s Chief of the Defence Staff, said Canada will not deploy any additional troops to Ukraine, based on concerns about how additional Canadian troops might be perceived by the Kremlin. He made his comments after Mr. Putin’s warning that any new deployment by Western allies to support Ukraine would cross a “red line.” Canada’s position could risk demonstrating to Moscow that geopolitical thuggery works.

A proposed high-level meeting between Russia and select members of NATO about the future of the transatlantic alliance has raised further concerns. It’s not clear whether Canada, which is leading NATO’s Enhanced Forward Presence mission in Latvia and has 200 military trainers in Ukraine, was invited to participate.

Estonian Prime Minster Kaja Kallas recently had to remind allies that “Russia must also not be given any say in how NATO organizes the defence of its territory.” Meanwhile, former Lithuanian foreign and defence minister Linas Linkevicius warned that Russia’s intentions “are well-known, they were always trying to split, divide, marginalize, so that’s nothing new.”

And indeed, last Friday, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent two lists of security demands to the United States and NATO, which included a Russian veto on NATO expansion and the removal of all NATO infrastructure from Central and Eastern Europe. While Mr. Putin knows that most of his demands will be unacceptable, his actual intent may be to spur dissent within the alliance – and in the worst case, exploit the rejection of his demands as a pretext for war.

“Mr. Putin already invaded Ukraine once. To deter him requires a meaningful demonstration of support for Ukrainian sovereignty and immediate sanctions on the oligarchs who enable him,” Garry Kasparov, a Russian opposition leader and the chairman of the Renew Democracy Initiative, told me. “Appeasement and negotiation only encourage Putin, and signals to him that threats and confrontation work.”

He added: “Canada has a tool to immediately deter Putin in the form of Magnitsky sanctions, and there are some very high-profile Kremlin oligarchs whose Canadian assets should be targeted.”

Mr. Putin needs to create a perpetual Cold War-style conflict in order for his government to remain relevant – both for Russian voters and geopolitically abroad. The post-Cold War triumph of freedom and democracy over Soviet totalitarianism was a victory for the millions held captive by Soviet occupation and repression; for Mr. Putin, however, the collapse of the Soviet Empire was “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe in the 20th century.”

His ultimate aim is the restoration of Russia’s Soviet-era imperial status and the defeat of Western liberal democracy – starting in Ukraine.

If Canada, the United States and our allies genuinely wish to champion our shared democratic values, that battle must begin by defending aspiring democracies like Ukraine. Only talking about democracy won’t cut it. Like any schoolyard bully, if we give Mr. Putin an inch, he will take miles. He will only stop once he’s confronted with significant and painful consequences for his actions.”

“On Games and Philosophy with Matt Calkins” | Clubhouse | December 16, 2021

Starting now, my 2nd Clubhouse conversation on games, AI, and philosophy (!) with @Appian CEO Matt Calkins. Listen and join in! https://t.co/mXoP3hZXmA pic.twitter.com/pc12Nv9NdZ

— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) December 16, 2021

Interview On The Potential Of Crypto And Artificial Intelligence | MLLM Invest | December 14, 2021

This article is a reprint. You can see the original HERE.

By Daniel Schvartsman

“The market is always moving fast. A lot of that movement can be noise, distractions from what really matter. It’s easy to say that investing is like chess in that you have to think a few steps ahead, but it’s an even more open, fluctuating framework, so that forward-looking mindset is only the first step.

Garry Kasparov is arguably the greatest chess player of all time, a longtime world champion who has gone on to a career of political activism. He’s also a cryptocurrency bull who just released his first NFT collection. He joined Investing.com this week to talk about it, including why crypto has his attention right now. We also got into whether NFTs have staying power and what in crypto will stand the test of time. And given his background and writing, I couldn’t help but ask him about artificial intelligence as well.

The full interview is available here. We’re including videos of the three parts of the interview, along with excerpts from the transcript. The transcript is edited for brevity and clarity.

Part 1: Why Garry Kasparov is Interested in Crypto

Investing.com: Why are you interested in crypto right now? What brought you to this?

Garry Kasparov: From my early days, I had great interest in technology…Of course, I played Deep Blue twice, won the first one, lost the second one. I always wanted to be at the cutting edge. I think it’s important to actually explain why I’m doing things like NFTs.

Making a difference: that was always my motto in chess. And I thought, how about, you know, making a difference elsewhere. I wrote several books and one of them was Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins. It’s about my personal experience with machines, but also generally about humans and computers.

So (given that background) it’s no surprise that I look at crypto at NFTs as one of the byproducts of crypto to find out, so what’s it all about.

And I also have to say, in the world of crypto there was another entry for me. Since 2012 I have been a chair of a human rights foundation…Our signature event is called Oslo Freedom Forum. This is the biggest gathering of dissidents and human rights activists from around the world. From Moscow to Venezuela, from Belarus to Zimbabwe. You find the most amazing people with great stories. Our organization has been very active…(including) helping them with funding. And what kind of funding do you use in countries like Venezuela?

I believe in the future of crypto, I believe that it’s the way that we are moving forward. Our life becomes more and more digital. So it’s natural that the means to support that life should become digital as well.

And for those who say yes, but is volatile, and there’s so many coins, it’s full of scams, I say, yes! It’s like every new business, big deal.

When you have new industries, new breakthrough ideas, you have so many scams, 99.9% goes away. You had the dot com crash, but it doesn’t mean the internet was wrong

Part 2: Crypto’s Place In Our Geopolitical Climate

IC: It’s hard to divorce crypto from a political aspect. How do you think in terms of crypto’s role in our geopolitical landscape?

GK: Yeah. You cannot insulate yourself from the political complications in the world, and whatever happens in the free world, elections and promises, and debates. Or what happens in the unfree world, like dictators deciding now it’s like time to ban crypto.

But again, that all adds to my previous argument. It’s the digital world, the globalized world, will offer more opportunities for individuals via decentralization. At the end of the day, it’s about our confidence.

If you have enough people in the world saying sorry, we need to move elsewhere, it’s going to happen. The dollar is weak. The only reason the dollar is a reserve currency is because other currencies are worse. So, it’s all relative. It’s not 1944 for God’s sake. This is 2021.

America is not the same dominant force as it used to be at the end of the World War II. So, America can fund its social programs, the government, by adding debt, because the dollar is still dominant. But its dominance is guaranteed only by the weakness of others.

I think long term, and again, I’m not a financial expert, it’s more like a philosophical view. I think in the next 10 years, it’s likely that the dollar will be replaced by a basket of cryptos. It’s about history, I’ve read enough history books to see the trends. I’ve analyzed the trends, and I think that there will be great demand for individual protection as decentralization becomes the buzzword. People want to make sure that we control our lives.

Part 3: The challenges in AI growth

IC: You’re known for the Kasparov principle, which is essentially that humans plus machines plus superior processes will beat just humans are just machines. Where do you see that being applied in the world?

GK: Look, first of all, I have to say that, is that I am always taking my stand against those doomsayers predicting the end of humanity. Because you have all these Terminators and Matrixes, and God knows what, sweeping us away.

Machines made us stronger in the past, made us faster. Intelligent machines will make us smarter. I believe it’s about promotion, not about elimination. But, we have to know how to use it effectively. The idea of the Kasparov principle is when we look at every problem, the machine will do most of the work. We have to recognize that we belong to the last few decimal places.

No matter how powerful AI is, there are still limitations for machines. Machines will dominate any closed system. Any closed framework, any game, chess, go, shogi, texas hold’em, poker, starcraft. The moment you do that, bingo, the machine will do a better job. But machines cannot transfer data from one closed system to another closed system. If you train the computer playing one Starcraft map, and then you use this knowledge for another Starcraft map with similar characters, you have to start from scratch, unless you have a human who can actually help transfer the knowledge.

IC: You’ve heard the saying that data is the new oil. And when you think of the companies that have the most data and the most power, you’re talking about Google (NASDAQ:), you’re talking about Amazon (NASDAQ:), you’re talking about Microsoft (NASDAQ:), just these giants. Are there risks to the Facebooks of the world dominating AI development far beyond even what governments can do?

GK: For the last five years I’ve been working with Avast software as their security ambassador. So I wrote dozens of essays on privacy and security.

The simple message is: if you generate data, someone will collect it. That’s something that people don’t recognize, there’s no way you can avoid your data being collected, because it’s somewhere there.

So now the question is what happens with this data? And you talked about Google and Facebook (NASDAQ:). That’s one story, but don’t forget you have undemocratic countries where the data is being collected without any GDPR protection.

And you’re right. Data is the new oil. I’d say it’s more like fuel. But you still need a good engine. So the problem now for many corporations in America and Europe, is they don’t have the same access to raw data as Chinese companies. So that’s why I think, the GDPR, with all the benefits it offers, it also created obstacles for the growth of AI industries in the free world, because it puts them in a very disadvantaged position.

As far as the Googles and Facebooks of this world, I have been very critical of them. I’m not sure that simply doing what Americans did with Standard Oil 110 years ago will do the trick, but this is something that we should consider.

I think one of the problems, and again, I refer to my articles, is there’s a triangle. You have government, you have Big Tech, and you have the public, and they will all be connected. I think the relationships within this triangle are so complex.

And unfortunately, with all this big talk, I think the public is yet to understand what we demand. Yeah, it’s fine to say, “We need more security.” But, working with Avast, I know that the most popular password is still 12345678. And the second one is 123456789. Thank, you very much! If you don’t follow the elemental rules, what do you expect? Somebody else, a sugar daddy to work for you?

So it’s a big story. And again, it’s all about trade-offs. Unfortunately, public is much less concerned practically about these issues. So, I think that it requires a serious debate we’ve yet to actual enter this phase.

Investing.com: Last question for you: Are you an investor in crypto?

GK: Yes, you know, I put my money where my mouth is.

Investing.com: So what’s in there? You’ve got Bitcoin, , all the biggies I imagine?

GK: Yeah. And I’m expecting good growth in this account!

Disclaimer
Garry Kasparov disclosed positions in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Daniel Shvartsman has no position in any instruments mentioned.”

From Tucker, With Love | The Dispatch Opinion | December 10, 2021

As I write, praising dictators means praising dictatorship. That’s what they envy and admire, from the manufactured machismo to attacking weaker countries to silencing domestic opposition by force. https://t.co/wAe6sMtQM6

— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) December 10, 2021

This is a reprint of my column at the Dispatch. You can read the original HERE.

By Garry Kasparov

“The best thing that could be said about Tucker Carlson’s love letter to Vladimir Putin on his show Tuesday is that it didn’t sound any better in the original Russian. It sounded much more like a work of translation than anything original, because we’ve been hearing it all from Russian state TV for years.

Many of those classic lies and themes were presented. Carlson claimed Russia’s border vulnerability was genuine, that NATO exists solely “to torment Vladimir Putin” who “has no intention of invading Western Europe,” that it is the U.S. hyping the threat of war, and more. He indulged in pathetic worship of Putin’s manufactured machismo at the same time he presented Biden as weak and not in charge. As I tweeted in reply to Mike Pence in 2016, Putin is a strong leader the way arsenic is a strong drink.

Even after the Trump years, when sometimes you weren’t sure if you were watching Fox News or Russia Today, it’s still a shock to hear American commentators of influence recite talking points straight out of the Kremlin’s playbook. Carlson did his best to twist them into MAGA-friendly soundbites, but it’s an impossible task. If there’s anything Putin wants for America, it’s for it never to be great again.

The topic at hand was Ukraine, back in the news not for impeachable reasons but because Russia once again has been building up a massive military force on its neighbor’s border—a border it already crossed by force in 2014. It’s been bizarre to hear the Biden White House talk about what may happen “if Russia invades Ukraine” when that invasion happened seven years ago and the war is still ongoing, with thousands of casualties.

Contrary to Tucker Carlson’s pleas, Putin’s assault on Ukraine has nothing to do with NATO or any threats real or imagined against Russian borders or national security, about which Putin cares nothing anyway. Like every other decision Putin makes from morning to night, it was about keeping his grip on total power in Russia.

Attacking Ukraine and seizing Crimea in 2014 served the dual purpose of distracting Russians from their many woes and disrupting Ukraine’s unwelcome move toward democracy and Europe—and away from Putin and his kleptocracy model. Ukrainians had just kicked out Viktor Yanukovych, Putin’s corrupt lackey, in a popular uprising against his attempt to block Ukrainian integration with Europe, doubtless at his boss in Moscow’s direction.

(Another relevant note on Putin’s timing is that the 2014 Olympic Winter Games had just finished in Sochi, Russia. A global sporting spectacle with the dictator playing the preening host to the world has been known to inspire a sense of invincibility at least since 1936. Biden’s diplomatic boycott of China’s upcoming Winter Games isn’t as good as moving them out of the CCP’s clutches, but it’s a worthwhile measure.)

A thriving democratic Ukraine would be a terrible model for Russians, in Putin’s view. Like every dictator, he’s having trouble explaining why everything in his country is such a mess after over 20 years in unchallenged power. Enemies are needed, ones big enough to be credible, and that means Europe, NATO, and, especially, the United States. Ukraine is hardly enough of a believable threat. Most Russians consider Ukrainians to be the same people, a feeling that was largely reciprocated until Putin declared his undeclared war.

And while far too many Russians support Putin’s brazen theft of Crimea, few have any appetite for continued hostilities despite years of Russian propaganda portraying Ukraine as simultaneously overrun by fascists and Jews. (Nobody ever said that misinformation had to make any sense to be effective.) And so, NATO was called once more into rhetorical service as the bogeyman, despite its unfortunate disinterest in Ukraine. It’s no coincidence that Putin invaded Georgia and Ukraine, the two ex-Soviet states that moved away from Moscow’s orbit without being let into NATO like the three Baltic nations were in 2004.

Even though it was demoted to Zoom instead of the pomp of their June summit in Geneva, the Biden-Putin call over Russia’s military build-up against Ukraine deserves attention. First off, what was it for? As with the earlier Biden-Putin summit in Geneva, there was little explanation from the Biden White House as to why it would reward a hostile mafia boss like Putin—a “killer” in Biden’s own words—with a one-on-one with the president of the United States. The call itself was a tangible achievement for Putin, well worth shuffling some troops and tanks around. It again elevated him as an equal, a playmaker on the international stage instead of the pariah he should be for his criminal acts and belligerence.

Still, if Biden managed to communicate that there are credible threats to the finances of Putin and his cronies, it wasn’t worthless. It would have been even better had amendments promising such sanctions been included as planned in the National Defense Authorization Act. The new NDAA, stripped of these measures and others aimed at the Kremlin, was announced soon after the Biden-Putin call. One hopes that the whiff of a potential Ukrainian quid pro quo at this timing is just my natural Russian paranoia. But after Biden already waived sanctions against Putin’s beloved Nord Stream 2 pipeline, a little paranoia is warranted.

Putin deserves no say whatsoever in the decisions of the sovereign nation of Ukraine—not about NATO or anything else. Ukraine deserves U.S. and NATO support because democracy needs their support. As I wrote in the days of the invasion in 2014, Ukraine is on the front line of a war that the U.S. and the rest of the free world doesn’t want to admit is happening. Hiding behind America First won’t save you, not for long. It never has. There is also self-interest, if not immediate national security interests. More and healthier democracies means a safer and more stable world, something of real value to the most globalized of all nations.

If the rule of international law is to matter at all, Putin’s mafia gang should be sanctioned into oblivion until every inch of Ukrainian territory is returned. Kick his oligarchs and their families out of their posh properties in the free world, where they enjoy luxuries that few Russians can dream of—like freedom of speech. Seize their looted assets, treat them like the criminals they are. All this leverage is available, but the will to use it has been absent.

This makes Carlson’s blather about being too tough on Putin even more laughable. Putin is a hostile actor, an enemy who has repeatedly attacked American interests abroad and in the homeland. Russian hackers and disinformation campaigns target everything from racial strife to vaccine effectiveness to US elections. Why would a flag-wrapped nationalist like Tucker Carlson take Putin’s side? Because Putin took Trump’s? Because he’s admiring of Putin’s authoritarian powers?

Or perhaps it’s that Trumpists, much like Putin, don’t see democracy as anything but trouble despite their claims of being freedom-loving patriots. Praising a dictator is to praise dictatorship, and what could be more un-American than that?

Garry Kasparov is the chairman of the Renew Democracy Initiative.”

Pushing Back Against Authoritarianism | Hudson Institute Panel | December 9, 2021

TODAY AT 12:00PM: #Russia & #China are undermining democracy around the world. How can the US &its allies combat this threat?

Join Hudson’s @nuryturkel for a conversation w/ @Kasparov63 & @UrielEpshtein on this timely subject.

Watch it here: https://t.co/R8zzrIDdqY

— Hudson Institute (@HudsonInstitute) December 9, 2021

This event was hosted by the Hudson Institute. You can visit them HERE to learn more about their mission.

 

Garry Kasparov on Meet the Press | MTP MSNBC | December 7, 2021

BREAKING: President Biden threatens Russian President Putin with “economic and other measures” in event of “military escalation” with Ukraine.@Kasparov63 responds: “Not good. Not enough. … They had a ‘dialogue’ about ransomware? So what about Biden’s threat 6 months ago?” pic.twitter.com/WOBf4Sc9zW

— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) December 7, 2021

Threatening sanctions and other measures IF Putin invades Ukraine now only invites the question why they haven’t already been applied since Putin already invaded Ukraine 7 years ago. https://t.co/tUxTHhmPSA

— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) December 7, 2021

Garry Kasparov on the Get a Real Job Podcast | Get a Real Job | December 7, 2021

Chess Grandmaster @Kasparov63 — He holds the record for the longest time as the No.1 rated player in the world — and he wants to show you how to get better via @kasparovchess https://t.co/QUAIaLYu51

— Stefan Pollack (@StefanPollack) December 9, 2021

Visit the Get a Real Job podcast’s website HERE.

Khodorkovsky and Kasparov among speakers at Free Russia Forum in Vilnius | LRT English | December 2, 2021

This article is a reprint from the English-language website of Lithuanian National Television and Radio. You can read the original HERE.

By BNS

“The 11th Free Russia Forum, the largest platform for Russia’s opposition outside of the Russian Federation, is getting underway in Vilnius on Thursday.

The two-day forum includes panel discussions entitled “The Last Dictators of Europe: Lessons from Civil Resistance in Russia and Belarus” and “Opposition in Emigration: From Words to Action”.

Russia’s economy and Vladimir Putin’s “war with history” are other topics to be discussed.

Russian opposition figures Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Garry Kasparov will hold a discussion on whether Russia can “get rid of the curse of the dictatorship”.

Some speakers are participating the event in Vilnius in person, while others are joining online.

Held twice a year in Lithuania since 2016, the forum brings together Russian opposition figures, politicians, political analysts and experts from different countries to discuss the situation in Russia.”

Hearthstone Ad | December 1, 2021

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