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Kasparov Arrested By Russian Police

Posted by timothy on Friday August 17, 2012 @12:52PM from the putin-on-the-fritz dept.

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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Re:Checkmate. by shutdown+-p+now · 2012-08-17 21:45 · Score: 1, Redundant

They don't know that it's going to run into long-term disaster. They think it can keep going like that indefinitely, and they're willing to take that deal over any kind of change, which they are too afraid would be for the worse.
Yes, realistically, it's not going to last indefinitely. The present prosperity was in a large part bought by trading resources, esp. oil & gas. This is not a viable long-term strategy, and once that runs out (or the market for it contracts, if/when First World goes all nuclear or solar/wind or whatever), there will be change either way. But govts are pretty good at convincing citizens that they have a long-term plan that's gonna work, so...