Garry Kasparov on Russia Since the End of the Cold War

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🗓️ 25 April 2016

⏱️ 80 minutes

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In his second conversation with Bill, Garry Kasparov discusses Russian and American politics since the end of the Cold War, and offers his account of the rise of Vladimir Putin and how we should understand Putin and his rule over Russia. In his discussion of post-Cold War history, Kasparov highlights many missed opportunities both in Russia and the U.S., which have enabled anti-Western leaders to strengthen their positions. Now living in the U.S., Kasparov also shares his impressions of America—both its inherent strengths and the challenges America faces today.

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0:00.0	And the Welcome back to Conversations. I'm Bill Crystal and I'm thrilled to be joined today by Gary
0:19.4	Caspirov. Sorry, my my Russian is not very good.
0:24.4	Gary Kasparov, great chess champion,
0:27.8	Democratic activist, and thoughtful and perceptive
0:32.1	analyst also of Russian politics and world politics.
0:36.0	The last time we ended with the...
0:38.0	A collapse of the Soviet Union.
0:40.0	That was a happy ending.
0:41.0	Yes, that was a great moment.
0:42.0	But the world doesn't always
0:43.0	doesn't stop with happy endings. History did not end.
0:47.0	Yes, always goes in seasons. So that's why I called my last book, Winter's coming.
0:51.0	Just to warn people that we are entering another dangerous period.
0:56.1	Yeah, no, it's a wonderful book and I want to get to that and I want to talk about what's happened
0:59.5	over the last 25 years.
1:00.5	One of the most striking things, like you mentioned this in your book but you've
1:03.0	written this elsewhere also talking about Vladimir Putin and you say what people
1:07.3	say he's a it's often said he plays chess he's very clever you know and we're just
1:11.7	we in the West are just playing
1:12.8	checkers you say that's a bad that's a bad analogy that's not the right way to
1:16.0	think about Putin no it is really bad and I know I was always annoyed you know
1:21.1	hearing that Putin plays chess.
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