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The Russian regime is too busy doing things that are important for Russia. Kasparov is a piece for the western media outlets to focus on as a political victim,

The Russian regime is too busy doing things that are important for Russia. Kasparov is a piece for the western media outlets to focus on as a political victim, while he's very unimportant in Russia and amongst Russians. If he was a real problem, they would have put him down by now. If they didn't allow protests, they would be cracking skulls.

ktizo 14y ago
So you are saying he must be unpopular or unimportant because he hasn't been put down for causing problems to the state? If you think all the popular and important people are dead, then you really hold very little hope for the living.
- skylan_q 14y ago
  No. I'm saying that if Russia was oppressive as people are making it out to be, he would be silenced by now. I present 4 possibilities: 1) If he was important and silenced, the claim that Russia is oppressive would hold. 2) If he is not silenced and important, there would be support for him within his own country, but then the country wouldn't be as oppressive as people make it out to be since he hasn't been silenced. 3) If he is silenced and unimportant, we would hear little to nothing of him. 4) If he is not silenced and unimportant, then he has a chance at getting attention from our news outlets that are always looking for an excuse to paint something has a humanitarian crisis as a pretext for war.
  - ktizo 14y ago
    Number 2) doesn't survive the barest comparison with history, as if it were true then there would never be political revolutions in oppressive cultures.
    - skylan_q 14y ago
      Cultures and regimes are different, and this hits the nail on the head. The regime isn't oppressive by Russian standards. But by western standards, it is.
      - andreyvit 14y ago
        As a Russian, I can assure you that it is, in my mind and in the minds of the educated people I know.
smsm42 14y ago
s/doing things that are important for Russia/stealing as much money as they can and putting them into offshore accounts/ Fixed that for you.

ktizo 14y ago

So you are saying he must be unpopular or unimportant because he hasn't been put down for causing problems to the state? If you think all the popular and important people are dead, then you really hold very little hope for the living.

skylan_q 14y ago
No. I'm saying that if Russia was oppressive as people are making it out to be, he would be silenced by now. I present 4 possibilities: 1) If he was important and silenced, the claim that Russia is oppressive would hold. 2) If he is not silenced and important, there would be support for him within his own country, but then the country wouldn't be as oppressive as people make it out to be since he hasn't been silenced. 3) If he is silenced and unimportant, we would hear little to nothing of him. 4) If he is not silenced and unimportant, then he has a chance at getting attention from our news outlets that are always looking for an excuse to paint something has a humanitarian crisis as a pretext for war.
- ktizo 14y ago
  Number 2) doesn't survive the barest comparison with history, as if it were true then there would never be political revolutions in oppressive cultures.
  - skylan_q 14y ago
    Cultures and regimes are different, and this hits the nail on the head. The regime isn't oppressive by Russian standards. But by western standards, it is.
    - andreyvit 14y ago
      As a Russian, I can assure you that it is, in my mind and in the minds of the educated people I know.

smsm42 14y ago

s/doing things that are important for Russia/stealing as much money as they can and putting them into offshore accounts/ Fixed that for you.