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Acting head of Kalmykia, Batu Khasikov won the election of the head of the republic with a result of 82.57% after processing 100% of the protocols, the chairman of the republican election commission, Alexander Dikalov, told RIA Kalmykia. Read the rest of this entry »

[ Ru ] Investments. President of FIDE and the former President of Republic of Kalmykia billionaire Kirsan Ilyumzhinov (Credit Mediterranee) has bought 51% of JSC “Togliattiazot” (Russia).

As President of FIDE billionaire Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has earned his billions can be found by visiting Read the rest of this entry »

FIDE President, former President of Kalmykia, billionaire Kirsan Ilyumzhinov told about the shooting of movie ‘Vangelia’. Read the rest of this entry »

Today, January 22, 2013, Former President of Kalmykia, President of FIDE Kirsan Ilyumzhinov met with the President of Chess Federation of Croatia Josip Leko. Read the rest of this entry »

Topic of my discussion is about me, because I have unusual life story.

My name is Olga. My family is good and successful; my parents brought me up as a kind, helpful and clever girl. At school I always studied hard and my mother took me to different societies: to art school, to the center for talented children for learning English and computer classes, bell dances. To tell the truth, I felt myself as a “blue stocking”, I had no private life and friends, but after finishing school my life abruptly changed. Read the rest of this entry »

FIDE President, former President of Republic of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov with congratulations.

Dear friends!

As this special time of year arrives, I would like to take this opportunity to extend my sincerest wishes for a holiday season filled with happiness for you and those you love and to thank you for your continued hard work, support and dedication to the great sport of chess which is deeply appreciated. Read the rest of this entry »

On 30 November, in Moscow, the official signing of Memorandum on the establishment of an investment fund for the implementation of investment projects in Russia and the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) countries between Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and the Chinese investment fund manager “Gaoneng” Xu Ping took place.

During the meeting after the signing ceremony it was noted that the authorized capital of the investment fund will be 5 billion U.S. dollars. The main participants of the fund will be “Gaoneng”, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov (as an individual) and a number Read the rest of this entry »

Russian oligarch buys Bulgarian oil company “Petrol Holding”. Former President of the Republic of Kalmykia and President of the World Chess Federation (FIDE), Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, became a majority owner of the largest Bulgarian fuel distributor “Petrol Holding”.

The Switzerland-based company “Credit Mediterranee”, owned Read the rest of this entry »

The President of the World Chess Federation and ex-president of Russia’s Republic of Kalmykia, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has bought a 52.5% stake in Bulgaria’s largest fuel company Petrol Holding.

Swiss-based Credit Mediterranee owned by Kirsan Ilyumzhinov bought the 47.5% stake owned by Denis Ershov and the 5% stake owned by Alexander Melnik, Vedomosti Daily reports. Ilyumzhinov plans to buy 100% of Petrol and is currently engaged in negotiations with another shareholder Mitko Sabev, who holds a 47.5% stake.

The cost of the deal has Read the rest of this entry »

The Chessman Cometh [ En | Ru ]

An interview with globe-trotting chess promoter, former president, and freelance diplomat Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.

INTERVIEW BY JOSHUA E. KEATING. MAY 9, 2012

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov garners an awful lot of press for the president of the World Chess Federation. But he’s not exactly your average chess buff. From 1993 to 2010, he was president of the Russian republic of Kalmykia and became known for his efforts to transform the remote Buddhist region into an international chess mecca as well as for his frank comments about an encounter with aliens he claims to have had in 1997. (He was also widely criticized for his autocratic rule over the impoverished republic.) Read the rest of this entry »

Legendary billioner Kirsan Ilyumzhinov from Kalmykia.

Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov (Russian: Кирсан Николаевич Илюмжинов) was born on the 5th of April 1962 in Elista, the capital of the Kalmykia
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On Sunday, June 12, television Libya (Planet Earth) aired a meeting between President of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and leader of Libya Muammar Gaddafi.

Libyan state television channel “Al-Jamahiriya” showed video footage on television, in which the first President of the Republic of Kalmykia Ilyumzhinov and Muammar Gaddafi are playing chess.

During the meeting the leader of Libya Muammar Gaddafi said Read the rest of this entry »

Mr. Ilyumzhinov said in an interview on primetime television that he had been taken on board an alien spaceship which had come to planet Earth to take samples – and claims to have several witnesses. Read the rest of this entry »

President FIDE visited Thailand [ De ]

The former president of Kalmykia and president FIDE Kirsan Ilyumzhinov visited Thailand. In Bangkok, capital of Thailand, president FIDE Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has meeting with headers of Chess Federatoin of Thailand.

Working travel to Thailand

In this visit to Thailand, also on the same day, in the framework of the visit, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, in Bangkok, Read the rest of this entry »

Premiere of the documentary film about Kirsan Ilyumzhinov [ Ru ]

Today, October 18, 2010 was held briefing on the upcoming premiere of “Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. Strokes to the portrait”.

According to the moderator of the meeting the President of the Union of Journalists of Kalmykia, editor of the kalmyk national newspaper “Khalmg UNN” Sanal Shavaliev, author of the picture was not chosen by chance, it is the will of the hero tape. Read the rest of this entry »