- Andrey Fyodorovich Kartashov, Илюмжинов выдвинул свою кандидатуру на пост президента Российской шахматной федерации | Ilyumzhinov put forward his candidacy to be President of the Russian Chess Federation, TASS, January 17, 2018
Ilyumzhinov put forward his candidacy to be President of the Russian Chess Federation
Moscow, January 17, 2018. TASS correspondent: Andrey Fyodorovich Kartashov. Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov put forward his candidacy to be President of the Russian Chess Federation (RCF), he himself told TASS. The election of the President of the RCF will be celebrated on February 3, 2018. Earlier, the current RCF President Andrey Vasilievich Filatov, who had been in office since February 1, 2014, had announced that he would be standing for re-election. 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. Ilyumzhinov has been chairing the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) since 1995. The election of the new FIDE President will take place in Batumi, Georgia next September. |
(Free translation by Nobody’s Perfect)
FIDE President Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov. Photo © Valery Sharifulin/TASS.
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Russian Chess Federation Andrey Vasilievich Filatov. Photo © Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS Archive.
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