The world chess champion has been living in exile for more than ten years, but Putin’s regime does not take kindly to his political involvement.

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On Thursday, the Russian financial watchdog Rosfinmonitoring added world chess champion Garry Kasparov to the list of terrorists and extremists.

The 61-year-old ex-Soviet and Russian chess player living in exile was previously sentenced by a Moscow court to a fine of 30,000 rubles (about HUF 120,000) for non-compliance with the law on foreign agents.

According to the protocol compiled by the Russian mass media and telecommunications watchdog, i.e. Roskomnadzor, Kasparov failed to indicate that he was engaged in this type of activity.

A month ago, the same court fined the legendary chess player 40,000 rubles for distributing materials on the Internet without being identified as a foreign agent.

Kasparov, who entered politics after ending his sports career, was added to the register of “foreign agents” by the Russian Ministry last May.

The legendary chess player left Russia in 2013. According to the Russian opposition Meduza news portal edited in Riga, Kasparov, who lives in Lithuania, founded the Free Russia Forum in 2016 together with Ivan Tyutrin, the former executive director of the Russian Solidarity movement.

Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, the organization has held anti-war conferences with the participation of representatives of the opposition outside the Russian parliament.