Boris Vishnevsky on FIDE President elections
12.08.2014
Boris Vishnevsky, YABLOKO Bureau member and MP in St.Peterburg parliament: In my view election of [ex head of Russia’s Republic of Kalmykia] Kirsan Ilyumzhinov FIDE President against another candidate [world chess champion] Garry Kasparov is a disgrace for the world chess [as sport].
And it is also a big disgrace for Russia because it supported Iluimzhinov.
But this fact does not even surpirse me.
It would have been a surprise if Russia would have supported Garry Kasparov.
Posted: August 12th, 2014 under The Murder of Larissa Yudina.