Garry Kasparov: Why Putin is escalating his efforts to kill me

Published October 16, 2026 7:00am ET



The cost of his life is $40,000.

Garry Kasparov, a former chess world champion and one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critics, was targeted by a Russian assassination plot on American soil this summer. U.S. prosecutors have charged five Russian intelligence agents in relation to the case.

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