I certainly want to be involved in politics and help shape the transition. I am in contact with regime critics who had to leave for the West. One of them is Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former businessman, who had to endure 10 years in a prison camp.

You can't overestimate the importance of psychology in chess, and as much as some players try to downplay it, I believe that winning requires a constant and strong psychology not just at the board but in every aspect of your life.

In Syria, Vladimir pUTIN sees the chance to make millions of refugees and weaponise them. The US has to take a lead in defending the values of the free world.

Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials.

Most likely, the system of mutual relations that has evolved in Eastern Europe and Asia corresponds to another level of governance.

There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.

I don't think that nature envisaged an insurmountable mechanism that would hinder any country from taking the path of democratic development.