Garry Kasparov, former world chess champion and leader of the United Civil Front, attends a news conference.
Photo: Valery Titievsky
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Kasparov Delayed When Crossing the Border
Garry Kasparov (center), the 13th world chess champion and leader of the United Civil Front, is en route to lodging a claim against Domodedovo frontier service after he spent 25 minutes waiting for the passport past Sunday.
Kasparov and his family were returning from Croatia on August 21. When crossing the border in Domodedovo airport, Kasparov had to part with his passport for the never ending 25 minutes needed to the officers to check the document.
Kasparov told Kommersant yesterday he will file a request to the Federal Frontier Service of Russia’s Federal Security Service at least on Wednesday to find out what instructions the border guards have about him.
Once everyone passed the passport check, a woman-lieutenant took my passport, saw something in the PC and called a senior lieutenant. The senior lieutenant asked me the flight number and the country of departure. When all questions were answered, the frontier guards started handing over the passport to one another until one of them finally stamped it, Kasparov said, attributing the delay to his political activity. “I travel a lot and I don’t want to have problems with frontier service in each airport in future. That is the reason of request.”
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of Aug. 23, 2005
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