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Article: Kasparov analyzes the games of Mugabe, Putin, and Medvedev.(Inside Track)(Gary Kasparov, Robert Mugabe, Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev )(Brief article)
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- The New American
- Article date:
- August 4, 2008
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Western political leaders and media pundits expressed outrage at the friendly reception accorded Zimbabwe's defiant dictator, Robert Mugabe, by fellow African leaders at the recent annual summit of the African Union in Egypt. Mugabe, who had two days earlier claimed victory in his country's violence- and fraud-ridden presidential elections, has fallen from hero to pariah among the chattering classes of Europe and the United States.
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However, Gary Kasparov, former world chess champion and leader of the Other Russia coalition, noted recently that the same Mugabe critics hypocritically ignore similar abuses by Russia's Putin and ...