Were it not such a serious situation, the jailing of opposition leader and chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov by the Putin regime would be richly ironic. For in what other nation are dissidents forced to go on hunger strikes while the price of bread and milk go through the roof? It was one of the more interesting points raised in the interviews we published yesterday with his lawyers Karinna Moskalenko and Olga Mikhailova – Garry cannot eat nor drink anything the jailers offer him for fear of an all-too-well-known fate. Perhaps the state should thank Kasparov for sparing them the inflated costs of the gulag gourmet! We know all too well from the arrest of Sergei Storchak how many greedy hands of the siloviki are clutching at the state piggy bank – the spiraling prices of eggs and stale bread for political prisoners will likely not be tolerated much longer…