Matilda

In a televised interview for Tsargrad TV channel, FIDE President Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov reiterated his intention to re-run for presidential elections in 2018, despite the sanctions imposed on him by the U.S. Treasury Department and the “big chill” with the other countless FIDE Deputy Presidents. “I will deliberately run for FIDE President just to demonstrate that the governance doctrine of United States and NATO is an anachronism in the 21st century”, Ilyumzhinov said. “When countries have nuclear weapons, negotiations and mediations must always be the first priority. Not hate but human understanding. I believe that sanctions cannot solve any problem”.
Chess-News.ru’s editor-in-chief Evgeny Anatolyevich Surov eventually adds a colourful note: “Before I had time to say goodbye to Ilyumzhinov, the host joyfully announced the ‘hot news’: the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation was busy checking the film director Aleksei Yefimovich Uchitel”.
Mr. Surov was probably alluding to the controversy related to Uchitel’s upcoming historical drama film Matilda, which is scheduled to be released on October 25, 2017. The film will tell about the fate of the ballerina Mathilda-Marie Feliksovna Kschessinskaya and her relationship with Nicholas II. Given the delicacy of the matter, the possibility of a ban is still pending. Among the various film facts, it should be noted that the name of the performer role of a ballerina was kept secret until the end of filming.