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Date Posted: Sun, March 02 2008, 11:44:11
Author: Asteria
Subject: Russian election a farce, says Garry Kasparov

By Nick Holdsworth
Last Updated: 12:30am GMT 02/03/2008

The Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov has urged world leaders not to recognise Dmitry Medvedev as the new Russian president.

Mr Kasparov, the former chess grandmaster, described today's elections as a "farce" as he delivered a 5,500-name petition to the body overseeing the vote, the Central Election Commission.

"The world should not recognise the election results," he said. "This election is the imposition of Putin's successor. It is one hand-picked candidate replacing another. If the leaders of the free world accept Medvedev they will be approving and giving credibility to this farce."

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He added that he feared a violent crackdown on an unsanctioned "dissenters' march" planned in Moscow tomorrow.

Today's officially approved challengers to Mr Medvedev are the Communist leader Gennady Zyganov, a 63-year-old former physics teacher; the Right-wing nationalist, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, 61, who heads the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia; and the little-known Andrei Bogdanov, 38, the head of Russia's Grand Masonic lodge and widely considered a Kremlin stooge.

The small but vocal anti-Kremlin coalition, The Other Russia, plans post-election protest marches tomorrow in cities across the country, despite an official ban in the capital.

Mr Kasparov, who was beaten and arrested during a similar unsanctioned protest in Moscow in December, said activists would not be deterred.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/01/wrussia301.xml

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