Kasparov: Cost of Containing Russia Growing Since Botched ‘Red Line’

Garry Kasparov: This isn't Cold War chess, chess has rules – Putin doesn't care about rules (CNN)

There is much debate now over whether Russian President Vladimir Putin's military moves in Crimea are just a show of force, or whether he seeks to reclaim that part of southern Ukraine.

To Garry Kasparov, a former world chess champion from the Soviet era and now a pro-democracy activist, it is "quite obvious" that Russia is serious. "I don't think Crimea's the end of the story."