There are exceptions of course, like for instance the Baltic States, which are members of the European Union, together with Ukraine and Moldova, as well. In those countries, the governments have been reformed as a result of elections.

When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games I knew the winning method.

In Armenia, the power de facto belongs to those who opted to take violent action in Karabakh. We are dealing with a military dictatorship that utilizes some kind of democratic procedures.

I now have Croatian citizenship, but I only accepted it because Croatia allowed me to keep my Russian passport.

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

If we look at statistical data, we see that Protestant countries in terms of economic development are more successful than those observing Catholicism.

Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact problem similar to those which people are always having to solve in everyday life.