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Kasparov flees Russia on detention fears amid Putin crackdown

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Kasparov is a totally manufactured 'Russian opposition' figure.

As late as 2004 he was a member of a US "Security Advisory Council" (NSAC). It was funny to see Kasparov's name on the website under the slogan: "Advisory Council members have dedicated their careers to American security", right next to assistant Secretary of Defence http://img717.imageshack.us.nyud.net/img717/1337/kasparov.jp...

I respect his anti-Putin views, and his chess achievements, but how exactly can he make a political career in Russia with such a background?

Most likely has left Russia because he has became completely irrelevant as a politician there, not because of some crackdown.

Also, his family has lived in NYC for a while now.

This is more than a month old.

Was it already featured on HN?

Also, the algorithms that we often talk about on HN everyday are decades older... ;-)

In case you missed them: "Titanic Sinks Four Hours After Hitting Iceberg", "Japan Declares War on U.S." "Man On The Moon" "Dewey Defeats Truman" "Beatle John Lennon Slain"

Do you know how to use the search feature?

This was mentioned three weeks ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5951050 .

The same logic can be applied to a large number of articles that appear in The HN frontpage. The previous post doesn't have comments and context and time are important in HN.

You are taking it very personal with "do you know how to use the search feature?" Probably more than you, see the script at the bottom of this article: http://blog.databigbang.com/tag/hnsearch/ it was a hack to surpass HNSearch search restrictions.

Your account is 1334 days old, so you should be aware that berating someone with sarcasm & the search feature is discouraged here.

And, to your point, I for one would upvote an enlightening article about Charles Babbage's analytical engine, even (or especially) if it were published 150 years ago.

My guess is that someone was hoping to draw a parallel between someone fleeing Russia (Kasparov) and someone trying to get into Russia (Snowden).

Why now? The crackdown is almost past and interesting times are about to begin.

I guess he could not wait a month.

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