Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times,
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.
He identified the other person as Ivan Tyutrin, the co-founder of the Free Russia Forum, who is based in Lithuania.
"Neither I nor Ivan have been told explicitly that we were the targets whose names are redacted in the indictment of the assassins," Kasparov said.
"We were, however, warned by security services in Lithuania and the United States that our lives were in danger and that we should take precautions, which I did and will continue to do."
The Epoch Times reached out to the Free Russia Forum for comment, but did not receive a response by publication time.
Kasparov - who was born in Baku in what is now Azerbaijan, when it was part of the Soviet Union -
