Kasparov, who became known for being the youngest world chess champion in history, is a prominent critic of the Russian government
Rosfinmonitoring, the financial monitoring agency of Russiaadded the former world chess champion Garry Kasparov to the country’s list of “terrorists and extremists”, Russian state news agency RIA reported on Wednesday. Kasparov is a prominent critic of the Russian government.
Inclusion on the list implies restrictions on the banking transactions of listed individuals, forcing them to obtain approval whenever they wish to use their accounts. At 60 years old today, Kasparov fled Russia in 2014 due to fear of persecution.
In 2022, the Russian Ministry of Justice included Kasparov eo ex-magnata do PetroleumMikhail Khodorkovsky on its list of “foreign agents”, subjecting them to strict bureaucracy, including financial reports, according to the G1 portal.
World champion
In 1985, at the age of 22, Kasparov became the youngest world chess champion in history, a record that remains unmatched to this day. That year he defeated another famous Russian chess player, Anatoly Karpov. Kasparov e Karpov dominated the chess scene in the 1980s, facing each other several times until 1990.