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Filatov has formalised his candidacy for re-election as President of the Russian Chess Federation

The President of the Russian Chess Federation (RCF) had announced his intention to run for a new term at the end of 2017

Moscow, January 18, 2018. TASS correspondent: Andrey Fyodorovich Kartashov. President of the Russian Chess Federation (RCF) Andrey Vasilievich Filatov formalised his candidacy for the RCF presidential election scheduled to take place on February 3, 2018, he himself told TASS.
On Thursday, Filatov filed all necessary documents required. He had announced his intention to run for a new term at the end of 2017.
“At the moment, 21 regions out of 32 asked me to represent them and continue our work”, Filatov said. “It’s a honour for me and such trust makes me proud. The numbers say that so far we’ve done everything right“.
Earlier Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov also announced his candidacy. Furthermore, on Monday it was reported that five people registered themselves as candidates to run for RCF Presidency: the former Soviet Champion in ski jumping Eduard Anatolyevich Suboch, the member of the Supervisory Board of the RCF from Ingushetia Zaurbek Sultanovich Malsagov, the leading researcher at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences Ivan Valentinovich Starikov, the President of the Moscow Region Chess Federation as well as President of the Rostov Region Chess Federation Sergey Anatolyevich Nesterov, and the Vice President of the RCF Andrey Vladimirovich Selivanov.
Filatov said he’s not afraid of the competition with Ilyumzhinov. “It’s great that there are such candidates out there. It shows how much attention Russia pays to chess”, he said.

(Free translation by Nobody’s Perfect)

Russian Chess Federation President Andrey Vasilievich Filatov. Photo © ITAR-TASS Archive/Sergey Karpov.
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