It's a real long shot
Only one big name in this article, and he's not a successful politician.Kasparov starts new Russian opposition movement
"Former chess champion Garry Kasparov and other prominent liberals launched a new anti-Kremlin movement in Russia on Saturday."The organization, called Solidarity after the victorious Polish anti-Communist movement, aims to unite the country's dysfunctional liberal forces and encourage a popular revolution similar to that seen in other ex-Soviet countries...
"Much of the Russian public has lost faith in liberal democracy, which remains associated with the chaos, poverty and corruption that emerged in Russia under president Boris Yeltsin...
"[I]n a sign of what it may be up against, members of the pro-Kremlin youth group Young Russia [NASHI], some dressed as monkeys, demonstrated outside the Saturday conference, distributing flyers that read 'monkeys are rocking the boat.'..."
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Russian Opposition Attempt to Rally in Moscow
"Police have thwarted an anti-Kremlin protest in central Moscow and detained a co-leader of the opposition group that organized it.
"Police roughly grabbed protesters who tried to enter the square, which was cordoned off by metal barriers and police trucks. Police dragged about 15 people into a waiting truck...
"Officers seized Eduard Limonov of the group Other Russia along with a handful of bodyguards as they approached the square. Chess great Garry Kasparov is the group's other leader..."
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