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He is back on the ballot for the presidency of world chess, carrying Russia's endorsement and something no rival can assemble in a single campaign season: thirty years of relationships across a continent that now holds the deciding hand.
American thinker Jesse Michels led a quiet diplomatic and spiritual initiative through the Vatican and Albania, marking the public return of former Kalmyk President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, whose separate visit to Mongolia added a personal cultural note to the wider effort.
Freed from sanctions, former FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is turning to Africa to fuse chess, education, and cosmic vision into a new blueprint for global leadership.
From Buddhist steppes to African villages, Ilyumzhinov shares why saving Earth means saving the cosmos.
The Russian businessman, politician and chess chief says Africa is the “future of human civilization.”
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, an eclectic array of Russian and Eurasian entrepreneurs have taken to the African continent.