{"id":244,"date":"2007-11-28T20:41:49","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T01:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teretereba.com\/wp\/?p=244"},"modified":"2017-07-22T09:56:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T16:56:55","slug":"gangster-chronicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/28\/gangster-chronicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Gangster Chronicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teretereba.com\/blog\/media\/blogs\/picks\/moscow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Moscow in the winter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teretereba.com\/blog\/media\/blogs\/picks\/moscow1.jpg\" alt=\"Moscow in the winter\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"254\" height=\"294\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Putin is very tough&#8211;he was high-up in the <a title=\"Komityet Gosudarstvyennoy Bezopasnosti\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/intell\/world\/russia\/kgb-su0519.htm\">KGB<\/a>. <a title=\"Garry Kasparov : Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Garry_Kasparov\">Garry Kasparov<\/a>, the internationally renowned  chess champion, who is a national hero &amp;vocal critic of <a title=\"Putin says will prevent foreign meddling\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSL2867745120071128\">Vladimir Putin<\/a>&#8216;s govt., <a title=\"Kasparov's forced hunger strike\" href=\"http:\/\/www.energypublisher.com\/article.asp?id=12483\" target=\"_blank\">has been jailed<\/a>. Bill Maher <a title=\"Russian Presidential candidate Garry Kasparov on Bill Maher\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HRvb9gO-XDA\" target=\"_blank\">had him on<\/a> about 6 weeks ago. He was going back to Russia to run in the pres. election.Chess is as popular in Russia as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nascar.com\/\">NASCAR<\/a> or wrestling is here. It&#8217;s like&#8211;OHMYGOD-jailing <a title=\"Jeff Gordon Official Site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffgordon.com\/blog\/blog_landing.sps\">Jeff Gordon<\/a> or <a title=\"Hulk Hogan Tribute\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VdbOh-FMI74\" target=\"_blank\">Hulk Hogan<\/a>&#8211;DUH. Kasparov has brains, guts, &amp; soul. 4 yrs back they took <a title=\"Russian court sentences former Yukos security officer to life in prison for murders\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2007\/08\/06\/europe\/EU-GEN-Russia-Yukos-Murder-Trial.php\" target=\"_blank\">YUKOS<\/a>, the Russian oil monopoly, away from young multi-multi billionaire, <a title=\"Mikhail Khodorkovsky\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky\" target=\"_blank\">Mikhail Khodorkovsky<\/a>, charged him w\/ tax evasion, &amp; <a title=\"Former head of Russia's Yukos gets ovation after final speech in court\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdi.org\/russia\/johnson\/9117-17.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">threw him in a gulag<\/a>&#8211;after he threated Putin politically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putin is very tough&#8211;he was high-up in the KGB. Garry Kasparov, the internationally renowned chess champion, who is a national hero &amp;vocal critic of Vladimir Putin&#8216;s govt., has been jailed. Bill Maher had him on about 6 weeks ago. He was going back to Russia to run in the pres. election.Chess is as popular in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[12682,11604,11602],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-thoughts","tag-garry-kasparov","tag-nascar","tag-putin","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3124,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/3124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}