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Kasparov Arrested By Russian Police

New submitter perdelucena writes "Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov was arrested outside a Moscow court, where the verdict in the trial of the Pussy Riot group members was being announced on Friday, Russian police said." Update: 08/18 01:14 GMT by T : Kasparov has written an account of the arrest.

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  1. Checkmate. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your move.

    1. Re:Checkmate. by SomePgmr · · Score: 5, Funny

      Uh, you wanna rethink that? ;)

    2. Re:Checkmate. by AK+Marc · · Score: 4, Funny

      They wanted communism by having the government own all the corporations. We got communism with all the corporations owning the government. Republicans are communists! Wait, what was the question again?

    3. Re:Checkmate. by Forty+Two+Tenfold · · Score: 3, Funny

      a failed philosophy that was communism

      You, sir, are an idiot.
      — written on a communist operating system (GNU/Linux) in a communist web browser (Firefox).

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  2. ISR by Altanar · · Score: 4, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, Czar Putin purges you. Wait... I did that wrong.

  3. Re:um... ok? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    shrug last time I saw pussy riot was when they announced a designer handbag sale.

  4. Re:um... ok? by lexsird · · Score: 5, Funny

    The last time I saw pussy riot was when I changed cat foods.

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  5. Re:um... ok? by gaelfx · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...King checkmates you!

  6. Gentlemen, this is BIG by Penurious+Penguin · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is way bigger than you think. Big, like in SPACE. To understand, you should first affiliate yourself with the origins of chess, particularly from the view of former President of the Republic of Kalmykia, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.

    Well, soon you will begin to see what started this whole affair in the first place. The President of the Republic of Kalmykia has powerful friends, and Putin is not at the top amongst them. These friends have spaceships and don't piddle around, especially with chess. In other words, Gary fucked with the Aliens by criticizing their Kalmykian friend, and Putin, the incredibly patient fellow he is, is finally closing in -- in service of the KGB (King's Gambit Bezopasnosti).

    Gentlemen, I assure you, chess is far stranger than Go.

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  7. Re:um... ok? by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 3, Funny

    Every time I go out on the town there is a "pussy riot".

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  8. Re:um... ok? by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's what you get for carrying Prada-Handbags!

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  9. Re:Video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait, what? They have those American laws in Russia too?