FIDE and Federal Service of Russian Federation against drugs.
Press release.
The Head of Kalmykia, the President of FIDE Kirsan Ilyumzhinov held a meeting with the Director of the Federal Service of the Russian Federation on the drugs control Viktor Cherkesov, where the issues of the cooperation between FIDE and the Federal Service were discussed.
During the meeting, an Agreement between FIDE and the Federal Service of the Russian Federation on the control over the drugs, was signed, which anticipates the organisation of the joint events and actions aimed at the fight against the drugs and drug-addiction.
Mr. Ilyumzhinov and Mr. Cherkesov had a joint press-conference after the signing of the Agreement.
Download Russian version of the Agreement in MS Word format.
Source: FIDE
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I see one dope in that picture …
hahahaha very good anon
Oh yes to control the drugs in their own country I agree.
Only caffeine offers anything but some sort of enhancement for chess players.
Just another political move to make Kirsan look good.
so are we gonna start testing chessplayers for anabolical steroids and mind-enhancing drugs? Geezus… FIDE isnt giving up on trying to get chess as an olympic event are they?? This is the only reason why they are following thru with this nonsense……because there is no other controversy surronding anti-doping in chess except for this.
The Quotable Kirsan (or, who should be drug-testing whom?)
“ ‘Consider,” he (Ilyumzhinov) said, ‘the championship will be decided on Friday 13th, 13 years after the 13th champion, Kasparov, left FIDE. This is more than just numbers – this is a sign. I believe that chess comes either from God or from beings flying a UFO. I should know! They took me aboard their airship while I was on a business trip to Moscow, in 1997, to a distant star. It’s perfectly normal – last year, I visited America and learned from official statistics that there are 4,000 annual reports of contact.’ ”
“. . . ‘I wanted to organise a big tournament in Iraq because Saddam Hussein is an intelligent and cultured man,’ he assures me, ‘and he supports chess, he understands its value.’ ”
— (The Man Who Bought Chess, Observer Sport Monthly, October 29, 2006 by Ed Vulliamy)
“Ilyumzhinov . . . claims that he can communicate with aliens. Once, he says, he was even taken on a tour of one of their UFOs. ‘The extraterrestrials put me in a yellow astronaut suit and showed me their spaceship. I was on the bridge. I felt quite comfortable in their company.’”
“ . . . lyumzhinov is partial to dictators and dictatorship. He wanted to hold the World Championship in Baghdad in 1996 and had already made arrangements with the then Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. In 2004, he made Libya the venue for that year’s championship. Indeed, Ilyumzhinov likes to refer to himself as a mixture of ‘Napoleon, Lenin, de Gaulle and Marx.’ ”
“. . . Indeed, his current interests lie elsewhere, with international politics, for example, and with US President George W. Bush. ‘The man provides order,’ he says, ‘he conquers countries, territories and oil wells. He gives the wells to the rich oil companies, making them even richer, and that’s completely okay.’ In fact, says Ilyumzhinov, it is quite possible that the world’s population will soon be living in a single, American state. ‘As long as order and discipline prevail — what’s the problem?’ ”
“And what about the extraterrestrials? ‘The day will come when they land on our planet and say: You have behaved poorly. Why do you wage wars? Why do you destroy each other?’ the president says. ‘Then they will pack us all into their spaceships and take us away from this place.’ ”
–(The Dictator and His Hobby, Kalmykian Leader Makes Farce of Chess Championships, by Maik Grossekathöfer, Spiegel Online International, Spiegel Magazine, October 12, 2006)