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In his speech Kasparov sets out the aggressive tone in his introductory remarks:
"History teaches us they are ideas worth fighting for and worth dying for.
The current Kremlin regime under Vladimir Putin is in some ways a new and difficult
cancer to diagnose and treat. But it is not completely resistant yet and I hope
we may yet force it into remission, or cut it out entirely, without killing
the patient."
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Santhumayor on his encounter with Garry Kasparov in New York