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Garry Kasparov and Ivan Tiutrin warned of assassination risk

Russian opposition figures received warnings from US and Lithuanian security services.

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What this story says

  • Garry Kasparov and Ivan Tiutrin, co-founders of the Free Russia Forum, have been warned by Lithuanian and US security services that their lives are in danger.
  • Kasparov described the news of being on an assassination list as a shock, but not a surprise.
  • The US Department of Justice indicted five alleged Russian intelligence agents in mid-September for conspiring to order assassinations and fund attacks in the US and Europe.
  • El Mundo reported that Russian agents had planned to assassinate Kasparov and former Russian parliamentarian Ilya Ponomarev.

Who covered it

Left 28%(14)Centre 36%(18)Right 36%(18)

Percentages are shares of the 50 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 81 of the 131 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

42/100

Craft

57/100

Hype

41/100

131 sources · methodology

Russian opposition figure Garry Kasparov and his associate Ivan Tiutrin have been warned by Lithuanian and US security services that their lives are in danger. Kasparov stated on social media that the news of being on an assassination list was a shock, though not a surprise. He added that he and Tiutrin had been informed of the danger and advised to take precautionary measures, which they have done.

The warnings come after the US Department of Justice announced in mid-September the indictment of five alleged Russian intelligence agents. These individuals are accused of conspiring to order assassinations and fund attacks in the US and Europe. The department indicated that the group had attempted to assassinate a prominent Russian dissident in the US during the summer.

Disagreement on specific targets

The Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported that Russian agents had planned to assassinate Garry Kasparov and former Russian parliamentarian Ilya Ponomarev. However, Garry Kasparov stated that neither he nor Ivan Tiutrin had been informed that they were specifically targeted by the network being pursued by US justice.

What the coverage left out

None of the left-rated, centre-rated, or right-rated reports mentioned the specific names of the five alleged Russian intelligence agents indicted by the US Department of Justice, nor did they detail the specific nature of the attacks they were accused of funding in Europe.

Coverage settled. We checked this 9 times and stopped on 6 Oct 2026, 19:15. The figures above are what it finished at.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

14 rated outlets

  • Fakti.bg, Le Monde, Dnevni list Danas, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Liberation, and Hot News reported that Garry Kasparov and Ivan Tiutrin were warned by Lithuanian and US security services about threats to their lives.
  • Kasparov stated that being on a list for assassination was not a surprise but was still shocking, according to Le Monde and Hot News.
  • La Vanguardia noted that the US had previously stated Russia had agents planning murders on US soil, to which Moscow had responded by calling the allegations unfounded.

Centre

18 rated outlets

  • Centre-rated reports focused on Garry Kasparov and Ivan Tiutrin being warned by Lithuanian and US security services about the danger to their lives. These reports included Kasparov's statement that the news was a shock but not a surprise. They also mentioned the US Department of Justice's indictment of five alleged Russian intelligence agents for conspiracy to commit assassinations and fund attacks in the US and Europe. Some centre-rated reports also cited El Mundo's claim that Russian agents had planned to assassinate Kasparov and Ilya Ponomarev.

Right

18 rated outlets

  • Right-rated reports led with Garry Kasparov's claim that he is on a Kremlin death list, stating he was informed of this by American and Lithuanian intelligence services. These reports mentioned that Kasparov and his associate Ivan Tiutrin were warned their lives were in danger. They also noted Kasparov's statement that he had taken precautionary measures.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Garry Kasparov and Ivan Tiutrin warned of assassination risk?
Of the 50 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 28% are rated left, 36% are rated centre, 36% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 131. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Garry Kasparov and Ivan Tiutrin warned of assassination risk left or right?
Neither side dominates it. Of the 50 rated outlets on this story, 28% are rated left, 36% are rated centre, 36% are rated right, and no side holds the 70% this site would want before calling a field one-sided. A story is not left or right in any case; the outlets that carried it are what carry ratings.
Is the coverage of Garry Kasparov and Ivan Tiutrin warned of assassination risk biased?
Garry Kasparov and Ivan Tiutrin warned of assassination risk is one event reported by 131 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which outlets covered Garry Kasparov and Ivan Tiutrin warned of assassination risk?
131 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
Who has been warned about a threat to their life?
Garry Kasparov, a Russian opposition figure and former world chess champion, and his associate Ivan Tiutrin have been warned by Lithuanian and US security services that their lives are in danger. They were informed that they are on an assassination list.
What is the Free Russia Forum?
The Free Russia Forum is an organisation co-founded in 2016 by Garry Kasparov and Ivan Tiutrin. It organises conferences against Russia's war in Ukraine. Russia listed the organisation as a 'terrorist' organisation in 2025.
What action has the US Department of Justice taken?
In mid-September, the US Department of Justice announced the indictment of five alleged Russian intelligence agents. They are accused of conspiring to order assassinations and fund attacks in the US and Europe. The department stated the group had attempted to assassinate a prominent Russian dissident in the US.

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131 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.

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