US Provides Security to Kasparov Amid Alleged Russian Assassination Plot

Multiple Spanish media outlets, citing unnamed officials and investigative reporting, claim Russian intelligence-linked networks planned to assassinate opposition figures Garry Kasparov and Ilya Ponomarev on US soil. While specific details remain uncorroborated by official US or Lithuanian sources, the reported warnings to Kasparov and Ponomarev by US and Lithuanian authorities lend some credibility to the existence of a threat. If confirmed, these plots represent a significant escalation of Russian covert lethal operations targeting exiled dissidents in Western countries, with direct implications for US-Russia relations.