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Chess Champ Garry Kasparov: ‘They Were Trying to Break My Leg’

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The chess champion and Russian opposition leader was beaten and arrested Friday after showing up at the sentencing of anti-Putin punk band Pussy Riot. He tells Eli Lake about the horrific ordeal.

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