The Free Press · October 8, 2026

Five Alleged Russian Agents Charged in Plot Against Kasparov

• In mid-September, the U.S. government charged five alleged Russian agents with plotting to assassinate a “prominent Russian dissident” living in the U.S., identified in the indictment only as “Victim-1”; the report notes there is very little doubt it was Kasparov.
• Kasparov fled Russia in 2013; his anti-Putin group, the Free Russia Forum, was listed as a “terrorist organization” by Putin’s government in 2025.
• All five defendants remain at large, including the alleged hitmen in the U.S. who had been hired to target Kasparov.
• The FBI told Kasparov to be “cautious and look out for your security,” per the report.
• Kasparov’s Free Russia Forum co-founder, Ivan Tyutrin, lives in Lithuania and appears in the indictment as “Victim-2”; Lithuanian officials have told Tyutrin his life was in grave danger.
• Kasparov said he would be surprised if the plot could have advanced that far without a direct order from Putin; that is his statement, not a fact independently verified here.

Facts are from the article’s accessible portion; the piece is paywalled, so the summary covers the full text the page exposes. Kasparov’s statements about the plot are his own claims, not independently verified here. Original headline: "A Conversation with the Man Putin Wants Dead".