YABLOKO: re-election of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov as President of FIDE is inadmissible
YABLOKO Bureau addresses the delegates of the FIDE congress with an urgent request not to support the candidacy of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov at the voting for the President of the World Chess Federation. The elections have to take place in Tromsø, Norway, on August 11.
YABLOKO notes that the regime of ex-President of the republic of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is one of the ugliest phenomena in Russia’s political history of the past two decades representing merger of authoritarian rule, corruption and crime.
“In 1998 fight against this regime cost life to Larissa Yudina, Chair of the YABLOKO regional branch in Kalmykia. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov’s legal assistant was convicted for her murder. Yet when the investigation has not been completed we can not rule out that it was Kirsan Ilyumzhinov who ordered the murder,” YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin says.
YABLOKO has been conducting annual actions in memory of Larissa Yudina.
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Kirsan Ilyumzhinov as FIDE President is a disgrace not only for Russia but for the whole world
YABLOKO demanded to resume investigation on the murder of Larissa Yudina and prosecute those who ordered this crime
Chronicle of events. The murder of Larissa Yudina
Posted: August 8th, 2014 under Human Rights, The Murder of Larissa Yudina.