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	Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
		Kirsan Ilyumzhinov rules the Republic of Kalmykia of the Russian Federation.
		Ilyumzhinov is widely regarded as heading a corrupt regime that has proved itself incapable of developing the region.
		Ilyumzhinov's preoccupation is chess, and he spends his time flying around the world as president of FIDE.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/k/ki/kirsan_ilyumzhinov.html (300 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, president of Europe's only Buddhist republic, talks to Tom ...
		Life is not all plain sailing for Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the flamboyant leader of the Russian republic of Kalmykia.
		Ilyumzhinov, meanwhile, has at least three Rolls-Royces and a Hummer, in which he careers around Elista, a small city of crumbling low-rise apartment blocks marooned on the grasslands.
		Ilyumzhinov's re-election as head of Fide in June followed a harshly fought campaign that saw opponents accuse him of dragging chess into disrepute.
	www.guardian.co.uk /russia/article/0,,1877387,00.html (1416 words)

	Kirsan Ilyumzhinov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Ilyumzhinov features prominently in two recent books, Curse of Kirsan: Adventures in the Chess Underworld by Sarah Hurst (ISBN 1-888690-15-1) and The Chess Artist, by J. Hallman (ISBN 0-312-27293-6).
		On June 2, 2006, Ilyumzhinov was reelected as FIDE President by a margin of 96 to 54 against his opponent Bessel Kok.
		According to the BBC Ilyumzhinov's election platform for the presidency of Kalmykia included a promise of a mobile phone for every shepherd and the affirmation of his belief that he had previously been abducted by aliens.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kirsan_Ilyumzhinov (325 words)

	The Moscow News
		Ilyumzhinov with the Russian president are conspicuously absent, which is highly significant in the present circumstances.
		Kirsan Ilyumzhinov's political unpredictability and his penchant for ostentatious statements, which could become dangerous in the process of strengthening the vertical structure of power in the RF, are a different matter.
		Yet in 1998, he staged a turnabout: In response to the RF Finance Ministry's decision to abolish the National Bank of Kalmykia, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov said he was ready to revise the existing relationship with the federal center, effectively threatening the republic's secession from the Federation: At the time his move was ignored but not forgotten.
	english.mn.ru /english/issue.php?2002-37-6 (2024 words)

	Embassy of Republic of Kalmykia at the President of Russian Federation
		Kirsan Nikolayevich llyumzhinov was born April 5, 1962 in Elista, the capital of Autonomous Republic of Kalmykia in Russia.
		On April 12, 1993 Kirsan llyumzhinov became the first elected President of the Republic of Kalmykia.
		On October 15, 1995 Kirsan llyumzhinov was reelected as the President of Kalmykia with his term extended to the year 2002.
	www.kalmykiaembassy.ru /html/egov.html (284 words)

	The New Yorker: PRINTABLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Ilyumzhinov was the Kalmyk national champion by the age of fourteen, and he is convinced that, with his authority as the president of FIDE, he can turn a nearly empty desert the size of Scotland into a chess paradise.
		Ilyumzhinov’s chess gig keeps him on the road much of the time, but when he is in Elista he moves around town in a white Rolls-Royce, followed closely by a Range Rover and a Cadillac that he bought sixteen years ago in Vienna.
		Ilyumzhinov is capable of doing or saying nearly anything; a soccer fanatic who lavishes millions of dollars on the local team, Uralan, he announced in 1996 that he had bought the World Cup star Diego Maradona—which would be a bit like signing Derek Jeter to play baseball in Montenegro.
	www.newyorker.com /printables/fact/060424fa_fact4 (5380 words)

	In Russia, a Checkerboard Field of Dreams - washingtonpost.com
		But for Ilyumzhinov, who has also been president of the World Chess Federation for 11 years, the uproar has had the side benefit of attracting yet more publicity for his chess kingdom, a desolate expanse of steppe and desert that runs to the Caspian Sea.
		Ilyumzhinov, who said he made his first millions as a car dealer after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, came to power here two years later.
		Ilyumzhinov was in the Russian resort city of Sochi, meeting with Putin at an investment conference, when the dispute erupted.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/08/AR2006100800815_pf.html (1302 words)

	Газета.Ru - Kremlin insiders clash over Kalmykia elections
		As Gazeta.Ru wrote earlier Ilyumzhinov’s supporters are convinced that the unsuccessful attempt to remove the republic’s Interior Ministry chief Timofei Sasykov from his post was initiated by Viktor Ivanov and Boris Gryznlov.
		Ilyumzhinov has held the presidential post for 2 terms in succession, and it is common knowledge that the SPS is campaigning for a ban on incumbent regional leaders running for a 3rd consecutive term.
		There is the impression that the people have grown used to the constant problems with heating and water supplies, to the poverty and soaring unemployment rates (up to 25 per cent), while their president collects luxury cars, and appears on numerous billboards in the company of the Dalai Lama, Boris Yeltsin and Russia’s Patriarch.
	www.gazeta.ru /2002/10/21/Kremlininsid.shtml (886 words)

	ChessBase.com - Chess News - A tale of two cities
		Ilyumzhinov is president of this small Russian republic, and groups there are increasingly calling for him to resign, due to allegations of vote-rigging in the recent government elections.
		Ilyumzhinov is at great pains to point out these changes, citing that Libya is in the running to host the 2010 football World Cup.
		Ilyumzhinov brushes aside the question of Anand, merely reiterating that the plans were put in motion and all agreed upon last year.
	www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=1503 (817 words)

	FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov takes the Hard Line
		Ilyumzhinov began the meeting by expressing his thanks to Steve Doyle and Barbara DeMaro of the United States Chess Federation, since USCF Vice President John McCrary had not yet arrived at the meeting.
		Kirsan said that we have come to the end of the discussion on this issue and FIDE should drastically change its administration based upon this decision.
		Kirsan said that as far as the claims of Zsuzsa Polgar are concerned, she is referred to the decisions of the FIDE General Assembly and the Presidential Board.
	www.ishipress.com /hardline.htm (1545 words)

	Kirsan Ilyumzhinov appointed by Putin as the president of Kalmykia - Pravda.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Kirsan Ilyumzhinov appointed by Putin as the president of Kalmykia
		Putin renamed Kirsan Ilyumzhinov as the president of the republic of Kalmykia, the Kremlin said in a statement.
		Ilyumzhinov, a millionaire who also is president of the world chess body FIDE, has ruled Kalmykia, an impoverished province in southern Russia, since 1993.
	english.pravda.ru /main/2005/10/19/65653_.html (463 words)

	MindZine - Scandal May 2000
		Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is the self professed multi-millionaire who runs world chess.
		Ilyumzhinov is using chess as a vehicle to boost his profile across the globe and, as On The Line reports, so long as he pours in the money few people in chess seem keen to ask questions.
		Ilyumzhinov also proposes to control the calendar such that events may only be scheduled with FIDE permission.
	www.msoworld.com /mindzine/news/scandals/scandal0500.html (1014 words)

	Money on Board - Kommersant Moscow
		Yesterday, the World Chess Federation, FIDE, President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov announced at the press conference in Moscow that the prize fund for the world champion title match between Garry Kasparov and Rustam Kasimdzhanov was raised from $1.25 million to $1.65 million.
		Yesterday’s announcement by Ilyumzhinov of raising the prize fund may be interpreted as the last attempt to return Kasparov to FIDE cycle.
		Ilyumzhinov said the 13th World Champion was sent a letter requesting his final decision regarding the match against Kasimdzhanov.
	www.kommersant.com /page.asp?id=547705 (786 words)

	The Times Internet Edition
		Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the head of the International Chess Federation (Fidé) and President of Kalmykia, has already been accused of corruption; last week his most prominent critic, a fearless female journalist, was abducted and murdered.
		In particular she wanted to know what happened to $70 million-worth of funds to buy Kalmyk wool that were allocated to a commercial firm headed by Kirsan Ilyumzhinov in 1992 and then went missing.
		Mr Ilyumzhinov stopped her printing her newspaper in Kalmykia, so - in a case of samizdat for the 1990s - she had it published in Volgograd, 200 miles away, and brought in to the republic every week by Lada.
	www.samsloan.com /pawned.htm (928 words)

	ChessBase.com - Chess News - Breaking news: Kirsan Ilyumzhinov reelected
		The result was a clear victory for the incumbent president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who collected 96 votes, compared to 54 for his challenger Bessel Kok.
		But it has also shown Kirsan and his team that, while “The Right Move” campaign was never going to be strong enough to topple them, there is within FIDE a very considerable measure of discontent.
		Kirsan would prefer unity, and hopefully he will strive for greater unity from his position of renewed strength.
	www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=3155 (1337 words)

	The Kenilworthian: The New Yorker's "Planet Kirsan" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Though Specter does not discuss at any length Ilyumzhinov's work as FIDE president or his ongoing battle with Bessel Kok in the upcoming election (as covered at ChessBase News), one has to wonder why this rich and crazy ideologue should be the international face of chess, predicted by some to easily win reelection.
		Ilyumzhinov's focus in his country on building Buddhist temples and other religious institutions and giving chess training to all his citizen seems all part of the same design: to keep Kalmykians quiet and mollified so that they are not so interested in politics.
		The when and where of this alien abduction and open house wasn't specified, but Kirsan could entertain the media at the Kramnik-Topalov Match with such particulars when that match turns out to be disastrous for his pet, Veselin.
	www.kenilworthchessclub.org /kenilworthian/2006/04/new-yorkers-planet-kirsan.html (1183 words)

	Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, my dear friend, announces that he is a Candidate for Presidency of Russia
		Her paper was Sovietskaya Kalmykia, which Ilyumzhinov had banned and which had to be driven in from a neighboring region in the trunk of Yudina's car.
		After all, it was Kirsan who decreed that the "World Chess Championship" would be decided by a two game blitz match, which was announced and then played only a few hours later, so quickly that the match was over even before the world knew that there was going to be a match.
		It was Kirsan who reportedly threatened the life of Leong when Leong revealed this at the meeting in Armenia, as a result of which Leong had to seek the protection of the American Embassy in Yerevan.
	www.ishipress.com /kirsan.htm (813 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		In a second-round ballot on 27 October, incumbent Kalmykia President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was re-elected to a second, seven-year term with 57 percent of the vote.
		Ilyumzhinov is usually connected to President Vladimir Putin's chief of staff, Aleksandr Voloshin, and to Deputy Chief of Staff Vladislav Surkov.
		Ilyumzhinov's ties to the Family have been bolstered by Kalmykia's status as a special economic zone.
	www.rferl.org /newsline/2002/11/5-NOT/not-011102.asp (1185 words)

	KIRSAN ILYUMZHINOV. DINNER WITH THE PRESIDENT Chess events and articles
		The FIDE president Ilyumzhinov, who unanimously was reelected at the general FIDE assembly a day earlier, and the men's team of his country brilliantly won the World Olympiad, dinners with me. Great and luxurious apartments, as Louvre.
		A few people know about business of Ilyumzhinov, about what, how he arrived to Paris in the deep night, where the president of the French chess federation Labotier waited for him at the “Novotel” at the Sharl de Goll air port, who was by one of the competitors during choices.
		Ilyumzhinov doesn't call the chess players' names, who were tested on a dope during the official FIDE competitions, but confirms, that the world champions were among them.
	www.chessdate.com /?cd=articles&id=346 (1882 words)

	FIDE Online. FIDE News: Kirsan Reelected by Wide Margin, 96 vs. 54
		Kirsan addressing the General Assembly prior to the vote, emphasized his record of ten years of hard work for chess.
		Incumbent FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was reelected by a wide margin with 96 votes against Bessel Kok`s 54.
		In his address after his reelection, Kirsan pledged to attend to the concerns raised by the Bessel Kok campaign and, in the FIDE spirit of `Gens Una Sumus` invited his workers to join the FIDE team.
	www.fide.com /news.asp?id=1022 (417 words)

	Chess960 News » Back to the Future: Ilyumzhinov wins yet another FIDE election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The perennial critics of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov’s policy could finally have had their sweet revenge, the ethics fraction could have had their confirmation of the high value of democratic principles – except it did not turn out this way.
		However, with the election of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov in November, 1995 as part of a desperation deal to get rid of Campomanes, FIDE placed itself in the hands of a corrupt dictator who is simply unwilling to work with the international chess community.
		Kirsan Ilyumzhinov received a total of 96 votes in the secret ballot.
	chess960.com /wordpress2/?p=26 (2170 words)

	Kirsan Ilyumzhinov re-elected president of Southern Russian region - Pravda.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Ilyumzhinov, who also is the president of the world chess body FIDE, has ruled Kalmykia since 1993.
		NTV television said lawmakers in the regional legislature had voted 22-1 to approve Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, 43, for a new five-year term.
		President Vladimir Putin proposed Ilyumzhinov for the post, under the new rules that allows the president to nominate regional leaders, the AP reports.
	english.pravda.ru /main/2005/10/24/66019.html (435 words)

	Amazon.ca: Curse of Kirsan: Adventures in the Chess Underworld: Books: Sarah Hurst (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It is a fascinating read, especially Chapter 5 "Some Unusual Positions" which describes in some detail the story of the smitten author's relentless quest to corner her idol, Garry Kasparov (Sarah ultimately tracks him down at his hotel, and finagles her way into his room).
		It would be reasonable to assume that the focus of this book is Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the controversial President of the world chess governing body (FIDE).
		However, for the larger part "Curse of Kirsan" is an immensely entertaining treatment of the divergent personalities populating the world of serious chess.
	www.amazon.ca /Curse-Kirsan-Adventures-Chess-Underworld/dp/1888690151 (491 words)

	EListA law by Sarah Hurst
		She had been an outspoken critic of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, president of Kalmykia and FIDE, and at the time of her death she was investigating allegations of financial impropriety relating to a state-owned company.
		I had read Ilyumzhinov's autobiography, The President's Crown of Thorns, but his activities in FIDE were left to the last few pages and his business interests from the time when he stopped working for a Russian-Japanese joint venture were hardly touched on.
		Ilyumzhinov - As head of the republic, I have been informed that investigations are under way and that suspects have been detained, practically on the day of the murder.
	www.samsloan.com /chmurd.htm (3707 words)

	Sport
		Kirsan Ilyumzhinov: "FIDE shall not follow the whims of any individuals, even the outstanding players".
		Chess Championship of Russia, FIDE President shocked many people, having said that he was ready to put his signature under the open letter of 3 Ks - A. Karpov, G. Kasparov and V. Kramnik, - and having mentioned a possibility of the match with Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand and Shirov.
		Ilyumzhinov was transparent that his position remains the same: - I have nothing against an open dialogue with any chess player in the world.
	ajedrez_democratico.tripod.com /FIDEnews.htm (1790 words)

	Iran chess in English
		The Chess Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran shall host the Asian Youth Championships 2006 for the Open and Girls Divisions under 8, 10, 12 and 14 years of age from 23rd June to 1st July 2006 in Tehran under the auspices of FIDE and the Asian Chess Federation.
		FIDE President, President of the Republic of Kalmykia H.E. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov had the meeting with the Vice President of Islamic Republic of Iran, Minister of Physical Development of Iran Mr.
		As the conclusion of the Meeting, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and the President of the Iran Chess Federation Mr.
	www.iranchess.ir /indexen.htm (607 words)

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