Garry Kasparov - Winter Is Coming

-how are we ever going to get this right? Personal email from Steve Sestanovich to author, April 19, 2015.

-infamous phrase of British prime minister Tony Blair. Ian Traynor and Michael White, “Blair courts outrage with Putin visit,” Guardian, March 11, 2000, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/ll/russia.ethicalforeignpolicy.

-never done anything like that. It’s illegal! Interview with President Bill Clinton on Echo of Moscow radio, June 4, 2000. Cited in Michael Wines, “Clinton in Moscow: The State of Democracy,” New York Times , June 4, 2000.

-beatings, torture and, on occasion, rape. Malcolm Hawkes, Human Rights Watch statement, March 11, 2000. Cited in the Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/n/russia.ethicalforeignpolicy.

-the Cold War really is over. Condoleezza Rice, No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington (New York: Crown, 2011), Kindle edition, locations 1450-54.

-we will stand together. George W. Bush, Decision Points (New York: Crown, 2010). Kindle edition, locations 3589-91.

-developing under conditions of intolerable isolation. Andrei Sakharov, “A Letter to the Congress of the United States, August 21, 1973,” published in Sakharov Speaks (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974), 211. Alexei Navalny and I borrowed this technique when we called the Magnitsky Act an “anti-Putin and therefore very pro-Russian piece of American legislation.”

-it was taken as a rank insult! Anatoly Dobrynin, In Confidence (New York: Times Books, 1995), 163.

-without which there can be no mutual trust . Sakharov, “A Letter to the Congress of the United States, August 21, 1973.”

-anti-Soviet deed, but a Trotskyist deed. Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (New York: Basic Books, 2000), 317.

-the Soviets had to be confronted, not appeased . Natan Sharansky and Ron Dermer, The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror (New York: PublicAffairs, 2004), 3.

-at greater risk than ourselves, who dare to resist. For some reason this remarkable historical document is difficult to find even in our era of total information. The first Google result for this quote is my own Twitter account! The speech can be found in full for download on the Jackson Foundation’s website, http://www.hmjackson.org/publications.

-no INTERNAL AFFAIRS left on our crowded Earth! Out of respect I preserve the capital letters Solzhenitsyn used for “internal affairs” in his Nobel lecture manuscript.

-especially if your hands are tied. Another infamous Rice statement was referring to strongman Alexander Lukashenko’s Belarus as “the last remaining true dictatorship in the heart of Europe” in 2005. This has been remembered and repeated endlessly only as Lukashenko being “the last dictator in Europe.” Worst of all, she said it while in Moscow! Even if few were ready to call Putin a dictator in 2005, why flatter him so? In 2014, Lukashenko had some revenge by saying that since Putin invaded Ukraine nobody was calling him the last dictator of Europe anymore. He was right.

-here with the specific purpose to end the war. Quotes are from various Russian news reports; several are in English at this BBC report: “Hostage-takers ‘ready to die,’” October 25, 2002, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2Zhi/europe/2360735.stm.

-rise of anti-Semitism last year. Masha Kondrachuk and Stephen Ennis, “Jews reject Russia claims of Ukraine anti-Semitism,” BBC report, November 12, 2014, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-2999i777.

-a fair trial, by Russian legal standards. Quoted in a Russian report at Grani.ru in October 2003. Ambassador Vershbow also expressed concern about Russian justice being “applied selectively.” and I wish you courage! It’s available here, also with audio: http://www.rferl.org/content/Text_Of_Closing_Statement_By_Mikhail_Khodorkovsky/2208523.html.

-to fight for those people and to fight for those things. Garry Kasparov, “The Great Game,” Wall Street Journal, March 14, 2005.

-orders to arrest you if you try to go. J. F. O. McAllister; Paul Quinn-Judge; Yuri Zarakhovich, “The Talks that Failed,” Time, September 13, 2004.

-I was going to Beslan to set up talks. J. F. O. McAllister; “Communication Breakdown,” Time, September 12, 2004.

-broke their silence to denounce it as a cover-up. “Beslan School Siege Inquiry ‘a Cover-up,’” Herald (Scotland), February 10, 2007, http://www.heraldscotland.com/beslan-school-siege-inquiry-a-cover-up-1.829305.

-hostages who could have been saved were burned alive. David Satter, Weekly Standard 12, no. 9, November 13, 2006.

-we will all be to blame! Gessen, The Man Without a Face, 193-94.

-Western-style values and universal values. President George W. Bush, speaking to the pro-democracy organization Freedom House, March 29, 2006.

-“intelligent” and “of another generation .” USA Today Editorial board interview with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, December 11, 2007, http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/rice-transcript.pdf.

-“troubling” record on human rights. All quotes are from the set of articles on Putin in the December 19, 2007, Time Person of the Year section. These included an interview in which Putin was asked why Russia’s elections weren’t more open and why I had been jailed. Putin’s amazing response: “Why did Mr. Kasparov, when arrested, speak out in English rather than Russian? When a politician works the crowd of other nations rather than the Russian nation, it tells you something.” Of course, I was addressing the many foreign reporters in English after already speaking in Russian.

-is a potential danger to its own security. Time, “Adolf Hitler: 1938 TIME man of the year,” January 2, 1939.

-“gravely concerned” and “strongly condemn” Quotes from statements of the Extraordinary European Council meetings on the situation in Georgia in August 2008.

-caused more damage to the Russian government than her writings . A remark Putin made to the press in Germany on October 10, 2006, four days after Politkovskaya’s murder.

-dizzy with the smell of oil and gas! Vaclav Havel, quoted widely at the time after the event and cited in the film’s press kit.

-highest quality in the world . All quotes are from press coverage of Medvedev’s statements at the World Russian Press Congress in Moscow on June 11, 2008.

-Russian cities as well as on foreign soil. The 2009 murder of Kadyrov rival Sulim Yamadayev in Dubai being the most sensational. Dubai police accused Kadyrov’s cousin (and state Duma member) of the murder. Yamadayev’s brother Ruslan was killed in Moscow in 2008.

-if NATO had approved Georgia’s MAP [Membership Application Plan] application. Bush, Decision Points, 7945-7947.

-with Marshall and Acheson and Kennan. Said by Obama during an interview on Fareed Zakaria GPS , December 28, 2008. Obama went on to praise the foreign policy of President George H. W. Bush.

-in all lands, everywhere . A version of this appears on a plaque in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.