Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov has said the security services from both the United States and Lithuania have warned him that his life was in danger, after a Russian plot was discovered which allegedly targeted Kremlin critics living abroad.
Last month the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said five people had been charged with plotting, on behalf of Russian intelligence, to assassinate two opposition figures.
One of the targets was in the United States, and the other in Lithuania.
DOJ did not identify Kasparov—who moved to the United States from Russia in 2013 and lives in New York—but in a Substack post the 63-year-old former chess grandmaster said he had been warned his life was in danger….