Garry KasparovVerified account

Such dark suspicions are based on 18 yrs of similarly well-timed attacks in Putin's Russia, as I document in Winter Is Coming. Clockwork.

Security is an altar on which many willingly sacrifice their freedom. Putin routinely uses terror pretext to crack down on peaceful dissent.

Nearly every law used against me & my nonviolent pro-democracy colleagues in Russia refers to fighting "extremism". Anti-Putin = extremist.

Radical Islam is a threat in Russia, esp in Caucasus, where many are killed each year. But the warlords are Putin's allies & do his bidding.

Have sympathy for the victims in St. Petersburg, absolutely, and for the Russian people. But don't confuse with sympathy for Putin's regime.

Agree. I feel empathy for his people, and loathing for him

First thought that came through my mind when I heard about it. It makes me cringe.

Russia's subway was also attacked in 2004 & 2010. What came to your mind ?

same thing: innocent people paying sins of others, caught in the fight of extremists and different groups of interest.

Did you say the same thing when there was terrorist attacks in UK, France, Germany, Belgium. Or just Russia ?

Yes. Innocent people killed due to the work of terror groups. The consequences are always the same. The starting point differs

But did you think the Govt of those countries were somehow involved ?

Mr Putin is a dictator. He doesn't value human life, as we all recall from his many actions, as well as Moscow theater&Beslan.

Did Blair, Bush & Obama value human life. Remember Afghanistan. Iraq, Libya

The timing is almost too convenient. Some protests and a bomb goes off and they "find" the second one and defuse it.

Exactly. Read Kasparov. Read history. Stop being in open-mouthed wonder that Putin might do something nefarious. Of course he will.