Garry Kasparov – ”Winter Is Coming”

Garry Kasparov spent twenty years as the world’s leading chess player. In 2005, he retired from professional chess to lead and support the pro-democracy opposition against President Vladimir Putin. His most recent book, Winter is Coming (2016), is an in-depth study of Russia's system of power. Speaker: Garry Kasparov, Chairman of the Human Rights Foundation and chess grandmaster Moderator: Martin Kragh, Head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs The seminar is supported by the Bertil Ohlin Institute and held at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs on 27 February 2018. Welcome!