Thursday, July 28, 2016

Nightmares & Fairy Tales

Back to January 30, 2013 in Kiev, when the then President of Ukraine Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych awarded Anna Yuriyivna Ushenina and presented her the second class order of Princess Olga for winning the Women’s World Chess Championship Knockout Tournament in 2012. Furthermore, he solemnly promised — in FIDE President Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov’s presence — to provide her an apartment. But instead, as often is the case for a “quasi promise”, after three years of fast and loose, the issue ended up in Court, while 14th Women’s World Chess Champion keeps living together with her mother and grandmother in the same house of her birth.
It must be a very good news for 15th Women’s World Chess Champion Mariya Olehivna Muzychuk too, since Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko renewed the same promise of his great predecessor to her.
It’s clear that something must be rotten — and not only in Denmark.

The making of the Royal House. Photo: Експрес (Expres).

Yanukovych awarding Ushenina. Photo: ForUm.

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