Garry Kasparov, "Winter Is Coming"

Garry Kasparov spent twenty years as the world’s leading chess player. In 2005, he retired from professional chess to lead and support the pro-democracy opposition against President Vladimir Putin. His most recent book, Winter is Coming (2016), is an in-depth study of Russia's system of power. 

Speaker:

Garry Kasparov, Chairman of the Human Rights Foundation and chess grandmaster

Moderator:

Martin Kragh, Head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs

The seminar is supported by the Bertil Ohlin Institute.

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