During the recent meeting of the European Resource Bank in Vienna, I was involved in drafting a Statement of Concern for Freedom in Russia. It’s now online and people can add their electronic signatures.
Anyone who wishes to add his or her name to the list (the online version is incomplete and is being increased with new names) should send me an email with full name and any relevant affiliation and I will forward it to the administrators.
(Note: There is a minor formatting problem on the website, and small slices of part of the letters are missing in the upper left hand side of the petition; I’ve notified the website administrator.)
Here are Garry Kasparov’s comments on the state of freedom in Putin’s Russia
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/10/opinion/10kasparov.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Anna,
Kasparov has got to be no more than a city freak, unfortunately. He represents noone and is too easy with spreading strong-worded statements, thus diminishing the importance of his words down to zero…
What’s a “city freak?” And what is there in Kasparov’s statement that is so far off the mark?