Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov, born 1963, Moscow. Charges: Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Public incitement to terrorism or justification of terrorism (using media or the internet)); Article 330.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Violation of the procedure for activities of a foreign agent, committed by a person after being…); “Garry Kasparov's case of public justification of terrorism”, opened on December 22, 2025. Status: not in Russia.
In brief
Moscow, Komi Republic · Moscow, Syktyvkar · Politicians · Anti-war cases, Terrorism cases, Cases against "foreign agents"
Sentence
No information about a verdict.
Preventive measure: arrest in absentia since December 22, 2025
Charges
- Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Public incitement to terrorism or justification of terrorism (using media or the internet)
- Article 330.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Violation of the procedure for activities of a foreign agent, committed by a person after being persecuted for an administrative offence
- Article 205.1 part 4, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of terrorist activities or its financing
- Article 205.4 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Creation of a terrorist community
- Article 205.4 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code — Organisation of a terrorist community and participation in it
- Article 278, Russian Criminal Code — Violent seizure of power or alteration of the constitutional order
Latest event
December 22, 2025 — criminal case opened
Garry Kasparov's case of public justification of terrorism
Timeline
· Criminal case opened
Garry Kasparov's case of public justification of terrorism
· Criminal case opened
The case of Anti-War Committee of Russia
· Preventive measure: arrest in absentia
· Persecution begins
The case of the Free Russia Forum
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Added to the register of “foreign agents”
Criminal case
The case of the Free Russia Forum
Other defendants in the case
- Gennady Gudkov — Location unknown
- Ivan Tyutrin — Not in Russia
- Evgeniya Chirikova — Not in Russia
Garry Kasparov's case of public justification of terrorism
The case of Anti-War Committee of Russia
Other defendants in the case
- Sergei Aleksashenko — Not in Russia
- Marat Gelman — Not in Russia
- Leonid Gozman — Not in Russia
- Dmitry Gudkov — Not in Russia
- Sergei Guriev — Not in Russia
- Boris Zimin — Not in Russia
- Vladimir Kara-Murza — Not in Russia
- Mikhail Kasianov — Not in Russia
- Evgenii Kiselev — Not in Russia
- Mikhail Kokorich — Not in Russia
- Evgenii Kunin — Not in Russia
- Elena Lukyanova — Not in Russia
- Kirill Martynov — Not in Russia
- Yuri Pivovarov — Not in Russia
- Maxim Reznik — Not in Russia
- Artur Smolianinov — Not in Russia
- Mikhail Khodorkovsky — Not in Russia
- Evgenii Chichvarkin — Not in Russia
- Konstantin Chumakov — Not in Russia
- Anastasia Shevchenko — Not in Russia
- Viktor Shenderovich — Not in Russia
- Ekaterina Shulman — Not in Russia
Thematic group: Anti-war case
Details and sources
Full summary
13th world chess champion. In 2005, he became chairman of the opposition United Civil Front, and in 2008 he became a member of the federal bureau of the Solidarity movement. In 2016, he co-founded the Free Russia Forum. Shortly after the outbreak of the war, he joined the Anti-War Committee of Russia. In May 2022, he was included in the register of "foreign agents". On 6 March 2024, he was added to Rosfinmonitoring's List of Terrorists and Extremists, with a notation indicating that a case had been opened against him under one of the "terrorist" articles. On 24 April 2024, Kasparov was arrested in absentia on charges of organising the activities of a terrorist community, organising terrorist activities and calling for terrorism. On 14 October 2025, the FSB reported the initiation of a case against Kasparov and other members of the Anti-War Committee of Russia for violent seizure of power and organisation of activities of a terrorist community. The reason was the adoption of the "Berlin Declaration" on the need for a change of power in Russia. In December 2025, he was arrested in absentia in the case of public justification of terrorism, details unknown.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Croatia
- Persecution episodes
- 3
Other people prosecuted under Article 205.1 part 4, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.