U.S. and Lithuanian security services alerted Kasparov to the threat in the summer of 2026, urging him to adopt safety measures. El Mundo also cited potential targets in Lithuania, such as activist Ruslan Gabbasov and Vladimir Kara-Murza, as indicators of a wide-reaching Moscow campaign to neutralize critics living outside Russia.
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Kremlin Plotted Assassinations of Garry Kasparov and Ilya Ponomarev in US
Geopolitics19 days ago
A payout of $40,000 was offered to a recruit to murder a political dissident according to an investigation by the Spanish newspaper El Mundo. The hit was part of a broader plan by Russian intelligence to target opponents of Vladimir Putin in the U.S., including Ilya Ponomarev and former chess champion Garry Kasparov. The U.S. Justice Department has already charged 5 people in a related network linked to Moscow, including agents Yuri and Kirill Khrameev, who are currently at large.
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