Topic: The Kremlin
World chess body FIDE was to elect its chief Wednesday after a power struggle worthy of the bitterest clashes on the board between the controversial Kremlin-backed incumbent and an ex-world champion.Current FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is standing for re-election at the body's ...
World chess body FIDE was to elect its chief Wednesday after a power struggle worthy of the bitterest clashes on the board between the controversial Kremlin-backed incumbent and an ex-world champion.Current FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is standing for re-election at the body's ...
LONDON (Reuters) - The stepping down of a remote Russian regional leader who once claimed to have been abducted by aliens has set off an unexpected battle for the world's most important chess job.Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, president of the impoverished Buddhist region of ...
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