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Thursday 03 Dec 2015 - 13:47 Makkah mean time-21-2-1437
Moscow, (IINA) - World famous Russian Chess Champion Garry Kasparov has recently been on a Twitter rampage against Russian President Vladimir Putin, including the latter's decisions concerning Turkey, Anadolu Agency reported.
The 52-year-old Kasparov has slammed the Putin administration's decision to cease food imports from Turkey and put an end to visa-free travel with Turkey after the downing of a Russian fighter jet that violated Turkish airspace on November 24.
"Putin blocks Turkish imports and ends visa-free travel. As usual, it's his economic actions that hurt average Russians, not those of enemies", Kasparov tweeted.
He also tweeted about the Moscow-imposed ban on tourist packages to Turkey, as well as the suspension of flights to Egypt, saying: "If Egypt and Turkey are off the list, the foreign tourism market is nearly dead for most Russians."
Kasparov stressed that Putin’s administration supported Syrian Regime leader Bashar Al-Assad killing civilians in Syria. "Putin helps Assad kill civilians and destroy all opposition except ISIS, with whom they are doing a nice oil business. Ally vs terror?!"
"But is already proof that Assad and Putin do profitable business with ISIS. They don't care about Syria or Russia, only money and power to keep it", he added. "Syria barely exists now and Assad is a mass-murderer. He and Putin may deserve each other but the Syrian people don't".
He also tweeted: "10 years ago I said if you wanted to understand Putin's regime don't read political science, read Mario Puzo [author of The Godfather]. It is a mafia. Follow the money!"
It is noteworthy that in Kasparov’s book "Winter is Coming", originally published in October, he blamed the West and the US government for being too soft on Putin.
In his book, Kasparov claims that Russia passed through dictatorship from democracy.
After the Soviet Union's security agency KGB's ex-lieutenant colonel Vladimir Putin became Russian president in 1999, Kasparov states, the Western countries and the U.S. did nothing to prevent Putin from becoming a dictator and subsequently an international threat.
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