Garry Kasparov: "We wanted the best..."

“Medvedev, according to the meeting participants, categorically rejected all the political demands of Bolotnaya Square from the very threshold, and promised to consider the issue of the release of political prisoners in a targeted manner. The first results of this consideration were not long in coming. An unauthorized rally of fellow Russians near the Central Executive Committee building on February 21 was dispersed with unprecedented speed cruelty, and one of the participants was “targetedly” taken to a mental hospital.”