[Vladimir] Putin intended to provide for a broad safety corridor [for the Olympic Games]. That's why Abkhazia was a more important and desired goal of Russian aggression against Georgia than South Ossetia, which merely served as a pretext. Concerns mainly centered on the Crimea.

We know that the governments in most of the successor states formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union are replaced through a process of regular elections.

For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.

Rosneft, for instance, was mainly built upon capital stolen from [jailed oligarch Mikhail] Khodorkovsky's company, but the IPO was successful with many Western corporations investing in it. This means that it is extremely difficult to detect these assets in their pure form.

Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the purest, most crystal-clear in the entire history of chess, astonishes one with his logic.

Perfectly correct chess exists only in theory.

We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.