4/25/2023 – Kasparov Predicts Collapse of Russian ‘Empire’

Russian opposition figure Garry Kasparov at the Newmark Civic Life Series at the 92nd Street Y, New York on May 14, 2023. He told Newsweek Ukraine must be given all the weapons it needs to defeat Russia in the war Vladimir Putin started. JASON MENDEZ/GETTY IMAGES

From Newsweek by BY BRENDAN COLE: Garry Kasparov has said that Ukraine winning the war Moscow started will lead to the collapse of Vladimir Putin‘s regime and usher in a new start for Russia.

“I’m pretty sure that within the next five years, Russia will end up smaller,” the former world chess champion, who is now involved in politics, told Newsweek. Describing the war in Ukraine as a “genocide,” the consequences of which “will be with us for decades,” he said that Russian territories such as the republics of Tatarstan, Bashkortostan and Chechnya “very likely will walk away.”

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