Kremlin critic and chess champion Garry Kasparov says the FBI warned him that his life was in danger shortly before the U.S. announced it had uncovered what it called a Russian murder-for-hire plot in Washington.

Kremlin critic and chess champion Garry Kasparov says the FBI warned him that his life was in danger shortly before the U.S. announced it had uncovered what it called a Russian murder-for-hire plot in Washington. ↧ Russian dissident Garry Kasparov said FBI warned his life was in da... Russia previously did not try to target dissidents on U.S. soil, but President Vladimir Putin is escalating his fight with the West, Kasparov said.