Kasparov Defends Museum that Criticized Religious Fundamentalism
June 27th, 2008 by Menachem Wecker
Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov (born Garry Weinstein) is asking Russians to save a museum which memorializes Andrei Sakharov. The museum is controversial for showing an exhibit in March 2007 called “Forbidden Art” which took on religious fundamentalism and which offended Orthodox Christians.